Does anyone manage nis with Ansible?
We are managing our users with nis and I want to automate the processes for newly provisioned servers, but I'm running into trouble with my ansible playbook for doing so. Do any of you have this...
View ArticleHow popular is Webmin in production?
Webmin has the ability to administer multiple servers if I am not mistaken. How popular is it in production shops?EDIT: I guess the decision has been made. Nobody thinks much of it lol submitted by...
View ArticleClients on eth1 can connect to the address of eth0, despite no...
Setup: Computer with 2 ethernet ports – one as completely isolated network for its clients, the second connecting to the external LAN:2: eth-intern: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500...
View ArticlePromoted!
I'm normally a humble guy, but I'm pretty amped. I was just promoted from Sr. Systems Administrator to IT Operations Manager this morning! Drinks are on me this Friday! submitted by Brewfiend [link][4...
View ArticleSenior System Administrator Job Perks
Ok So I'm a Senior SysAdmin at my company. We are looking for more Seniors to hire. I was wondering what perks or must haves do you other fellow Senior SysAdmins look for when applying to Senior...
View ArticleInterview completed
A few days ago, I posted that I was being interviewed. Well, I had my interview this morning and I really have no idea what to make of it. It was with 4 devops guys.They asked me how I got to where I...
View ArticleConfused as to how software installation works.
I'm currently running CentOS (Essentially RHEL) and I am trying to install some software in such a way that all users on the machine will be able to run the software. I have root credentials, but I am...
View ArticleBackup with LVM Snapshot - help with configuration
Hi /r/linuxadmin ,Quite a n00b question, I'm planning to use tartarus for my backups. But part of the configuration isn't clear to me. I hope you can help me out. Below is part of a sample...
View ArticleSu-su-sudo
Can anyone tell me how to give one user permission to SUDO to another specific user? I know how to configure sudo to root in visudo, but I don't want this individual to have root privileges. I need to...
View ArticleQuestion about templates on Nagios.
Hello all. I am posting this question here because it looks like the Nagios subreddit is not that active.Is there a way to create a template that you can assign to a hostgroup to use? For example if...
View ArticleI'm stumped by this bit of apache .htaccess file mod_rewrite syntax... Can an...
I'm actually quite comfortable with regular expressions, but I'm troubleshooting a client's webserver and his .htaccess mod_rewrite directives are causing an issue. Problem is, I can't understand the...
View ArticleGoing to OSCon 2014?
Just curious if anybody around here will be going. I think it would be interesting to meet fellow linux people up there.Update: I'll be there from the 19th - 23rd if anybody wants to meet up and linux...
View ArticleExceptions in CSF?
I ,love the centmin mod and I tend to use it for a quick setup of all my webhosting needs but I have never understood CSF the firewall it comes with I want run a TS3 server on the same server as my...
View ArticleMaking rpms using spec files and/or fpm, anyone's experiences......
I'm kinda redesigning how my company's infrastructure is. Part of that is moving away from source installs on individual machines to using a yum repo, building our own packages, and using puppet for...
View ArticleScaling RH Satellite to 20,000+ hosts
Greetings,Has anyone here used Satellite with over 20,000 hosts? One of my clients is doing this now and is having scaling problems. The Satellite web interface is slow and registration mechanism seems...
View ArticleNew to firewalld
I'm trying to learn the new firewalld in CentOS 7 and am having a problem with allowing ICMP pings from my /16 subnet while denying ICMP replies to the rest of the internet.Is there a way to do this or...
View ArticleQUESTION: Logrotate issues on CentOS
We are pulling logs from Drupal to syslog. Each site is logging to it's own file. /var/log/drupal looks like this:site1.log site2.log site3.log In logrotate.d we have a config file called drupal, it...
View ArticleIs package management even worth it anymore?
I find myself supporting boxes with lots of software that lives on github and changes frequently. I can spend a lot of time packaging these into rpms, or I can just use git (or puppet) to hold the...
View ArticleContents of a log file
I'm looking for the best way to approach this situation: My team has a series of servers which we'd like to monitor, without investing time into a "proper" monitoring solution due to lack of...
View ArticlePossible to get squid to perform a "silent" redirect (no HTTP 302)?
I have an application where I need to ensure that some of the data that it requests must not be loaded from it's own site, but must load a modified version from our site.I tried using redirectors in...
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