Linux Admin Podcasts
Was wondering if anyone could recommend some linux admin oriented podcasts? Would prefer audio only but would be interested to learn about video ones as well.Thanks submitted by Arg0naut [link][9...
View ArticleRuby on Rails and RVM behind restrictive firewall
Good morning folks,Here is my situation. The product my company is shipping is written in Ruby on Rails. There are several internal and external applications, with different versions of Ruby and...
View ArticleHow to get /etc/network/interfaces configured to allow wlan0 to select AP...
I'm running a debian jessie server w/o network manager and am trying to configure wlan0 to automatically choose an AP (any AP) when booted. I've got /etc/network/interfaces looking like: auto wlan0...
View ArticleAbout to take the RHCSA rapid track - how do I get the most out of it?
This is my first time taking a four day intensive course like this and I want to make the most of it and set myself up so that I can keep studying until I'm ready to take the exam. Just looking for...
View ArticleManage multiple VPS ..need software recommendations
hey all i need to manage quite a large number of vps what are the linuxadmin suggestions for a web based and opensource frontendright now keyless ssh is the way i am doing but would like to evaluate...
View ArticleLooking for a very easy to follow guide to setup postfix+dovecot or...
Have tried several guides. Looking for one that is very easy to follow. Can be with or without SSL. I tried all the guides I could find on the community articles on digital ocean and tried some...
View Article[Help] HP BL460c Gen8 bridging mystery
Hello everyone,This is a bit of a strange problem that I've been chasing after for some time now. I'm at the point where I'm totally stumped and so I turn to this wonderful community. Bit of...
View ArticleCoreOS+Docker vs plain Linux server
I have a quite strong KVM guest (two E5-2620 Xeon Cores, 8GB RAM) and now want to install it.I don't plan to share it with anyone else besides maybe good friends and relatives. Intended usage:mail...
View ArticleA script for easy mysql memory ball park projections
What I want is a way that I can say I have 42 GB of memory of which I want to spend 13.37 GB of memory on mysql can you please give me an average settings setup for maria DB for me to then edit based...
View ArticleWhat am I missing?
Greetings, fellow admins. I'm in the process of setting up a local yum repo for updates so that my servers don't have to access the public internet for them. Most of the channels I've setup in the...
View ArticleA proper VDI solution for workstations in production?
Dear linux admins,Anyone has a medium sized (30 - 40 client) environment running on a commercial NoMachine server and workstations behind it? Or maybe you are running oVirt (or RHEV) for the same...
View ArticleUID/GID woes
I'm having trouble with the user id of a specific service account that resides in active directory on my Linux servers. I'm trying to set a service account as owner to a shared directory located on a...
View ArticleWhat is your anti spam software of choice?
Spamassassin or dspam? Or what other options are there? Motivate your anti spam software of choice? Thanks. submitted by apache99 [link][18 comments]
View ArticleLogon scripts and users.
I'm trying to make a logon script that sets the users proxy settings if they haven't already.It has the proxy path, the path to the settings file, It should test to see if the file is already present...
View Articlelast time a package ran
Does anyone know a way to check and see when the last time a package ran? the example I have right now is cups. I strongly doubt we need it on this server, but I want to double check. How can I see...
View ArticleAnyone have experience buidling GPU farms?
I want to build a cluster of Infinitibanded Teslas for biological computing, having built several GigE CPU clusters before. I'm looking at Dell and SGI options, but it seems to be a really new area...
View ArticleHow do you do patch management?
I have been thinking about a good way to do patch management (mostly Ubuntu and Debian) for a large number of hosts in an automated fashion but so far I have not found any good examples or conclusive...
View ArticlePXE TFTP Timeout
Does anybody know where you configure the path/name of the file that the boot agent pulls down via TFTP after it gets the IP info from the DHCP server?The DHCP/TFTP server is solaris 10 if that...
View Articlenginx and SSL reverse proxy. I have two questions about it.
Hello all. I am trying to setup nginx as a SSL reverse proxy for apache. However, there are few things I am not clear about.1) I have created a self signed certificate for my apache server and they...
View ArticleHAProxy with SSL Termination to Multiple Webhosts
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this concept and wondering if someone could please clarify and point me in the direction of additional reading.Lets say I'm a webhosting company with multiple...
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