Are we in another Bubble? Sysadmin applicants making dot.com-like salary and...
I've been on the hunt for a Senior Linux Admin now for a couple of months and I've had three different applicants turn down pretty substantial offers. Some background, we're a social media startup in...
View ArticleMedia server architecture for enhanced data integrity?
Looking for a cheap way to host various media files in a variety of formats. I was strongly considering NAS solutions using NFS, sshfs, etc rather than a DLNA server, Mediatomb, etc. It will be a...
View ArticleGotta love MySQL indexing
On a LAMP box, a customer had a database where basically whenever a new IP visits the site, the page checks and potentially adds/updates to that table. Every single query was taking from 2-5 seconds to...
View ArticleZimbra OSS - Backup Options?
So I've created a nice test environment, running ZCS 7.1.4 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. It's working great. I've got it integrated with an AD test environment and am very pleased. In the end, my goal is to...
View ArticlePHP-FPM vs mod_php - in production
Anyone running PHP-FPM in production with Apache 2.2? PHP-FPM is considered "stable" as of PHP 5.4. I've got it running on 1 production box now, but have no benchmarks yet. If you have any sites that...
View Articleopenldap vs NIS+ vs ???
Looking for the simplest way to do distributed authentication for a small office environ. Are there any obvious alternatives besides NIS+ and ldap that I've missed? What are people using now and how...
View ArticleTIL: Dell has a Debian/Ubuntu repository for Open Manage 6.5
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View ArticleShuttleworth highlights server growth as Ubuntu overtakes RHEL on top websites
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View Articledisk-attach in KVM
I'm facing a problem on KVM. I'm running a headless debian (testing) kvm server for some WinXp vms and I need to share some media storage to them. The machine itself has a sata raid array that feeds to...
View ArticleLooking for ideas to automate Linux configuration audits.
Hi Linuxadmins, In my company I am responsible for doing configuration audits to make sure newly installed Linux servers are built following our documented standards. Because our build team does not...
View ArticleWhat are your "busy" scripts/commands?
So I just read the article over at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/21/how_to_get_paid_more/ (posted at /r/sysadmin) and it got me thinking. By keeping a random shell open on some part of my screen...
View ArticleWanting to try for the RHCSA, any good (free) study materials to make sure I...
As a technician at a primarily Windows-servicing MSP, I've gained a lot of experience in that OS. My linux experience is less so. I'm an administrator for a large Minecraft server running off a CentOS...
View ArticleSuspend/Hibernate on system idle.
I'm running a debian headless server, and want to have the machine suspend to RAM when the system is idle. There are a few ways to invoke it manually, but I'd rather it simply go to sleep if there's...
View ArticleI take the RHCSA tomorrow for the first time
Any advice/encouragement/reality checks before I dive into the command line? submitted by Inurius [link] [30 comments]
View ArticleSeeking linux sysadmins for a bootstrapped web hosting company. ~7 years in...
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View ArticleAny suggestions for a postfix reporting method?
I have a small mail server running on ubuntu 10. Only a few users who do a few emails a day. Say a hundred a day at most during a busy week. One of them got a virus (or something) the other day and my...
View ArticleIs there a better sar(1) grapher than isag(1)?
I'm using sar to collect cpu+i/o+memory usage of some servers. I want to view these statistics graphically. The only program I've found that does this is isag, but it's unsatisfactory for these...
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