Anyone with experience in setting up Alfresco?
I need some help with being able to correctly set up alfresco 5.0a on CentOS 6. I can install alfresco and make it to the share and alfresco pages (127.0.0.1:8080/share and /alfresco) but I get an...
View ArticleAre the "ivory tower" Linux guys not using the command line any more or...
I just tried CentOS 7 for the first time and I keep stumbling across various more-or-less terrible changes to the CLI environment. I'm sure these are familiar to everyone - systemctl instead of...
View ArticleReplacing ASM on RHEL 6 with udev?
Anyone have any experience with replacing Oracle ASM with udev for device mapping on RHEL 6? The Red Hat-provided RHEL 6 kmod-oracleasm package only supports the 2.6.32-431 kernel branch and RHEL 6....
View ArticleRedirect all command line output, not just results
So I'm running an ssh into a lot of systems and I need to redirect everything I see on the screen to a file, not just the results. So, for example, if I run: for i in `less serverlist`; do ssh $i...
View ArticleTrouble downloading streams from ustream
I would like to record live streams from ustream, e.g. http://www.ustream.tv/KiddLiveI am using rtmpdump-git version of rtmp tools on arch.I start rtmpsrv, reload video and only get this message:ERROR:...
View ArticleBest application monitoring system with dashboard
I have been playing with Graphite as application monitoring system but I'm wondering if there's something better out there for what I want.Here are a few requirements I have in mind:Dashboards (easy to...
View ArticleConsidering a career shift into Linux sysadmin'ing. What are your thoughts on...
I'm an attorney but the "human misery" aspect to the position wears on me every day. I know you have to deal with a lot of bullshit in the sysadmin world, but it's an entirely different sort of...
View ArticleWhere do you read your Linux sysadmin news?
Lately I've been trying to find a competent, decently technical news site for generic linuxadmin news; what's your favourite? submitted by Arkenklo [link][19 comments]
View ArticleGlobal Public Key Infrastructure for SSH, based on blockchain technology!
Our team released a new tool: free, open source program, emcssh.This program is a bridge between blockchain-based PKI and OpenSSH server daemon, and allows to retrieve ssh public keys from distributed...
View ArticleHow should I distribute entropy securely to my VMs?
This is a bit of a doozy, so if you just want the TL;DR, read the title! I use Debian 7 for all my servers.I currently face a situation in my homelab where I have the need for a lot of good entropy in...
View ArticleGoogle Drive (other cloud storage) backup strategy?
Hello,Back-story: One of my clients has a small office (10 workstations) they decided to use Google Drive for file sharing. One of my coworkers deleted his folder. And the files has been deleted...
View ArticleBest tools for site wide ip banning?
Is there a good tool to do a fail2ban or something similar on a datacenter wide basis? With a couple external servers, it would be nice to be able to block brute force/bot style attacks or scraping on...
View ArticleCentOS 5.5 in Hyper-V LIS install problem
Hey guys,Hoping for some help with this issue I'm stuck on. Sorry about bring a little MS over to the sub! Trying to get a specific server to run in Hyper-V and I want to install the integration...
View Articlersync and many, many files
We are preparing to an rsync config for backup of files. Does rsync'ing lots of files cause a problem for rsync?We have many, many files of small size, which we could exclude from the rsync as they are...
View ArticleWhat tool do you use to implement STIGs from CIS and NIST. Would anyone be...
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View ArticleCannot seem to get X11 forwarding to work correctly on Redhat 5.11
Good Morning all,I am attempting to get X11 forwarding on a redhat server here at work. A piece of software that our vendor uses requires X11 forwarding so that an upgrade can be performed on said...
View ArticlePassword-less login: SSH is fine, but SCP still asks
Hi, I'm having a strange behaviour of 2 Debian Wheezy servers that I'd like to transfer some files between them by scp.As usual, a key pair is generated by:ssh-keygen -t ecdsa Copy/paste content of...
View ArticleSharing CUPS printer for Windows machines
It's 2 am and for some reason I'm thinking about this rather than sleeping...But anyway. Recently I setup CUPS on my ClearOS(based on CentOS) server and I have connected and setup 2 of the office...
View ArticleFirst time running an email server in production - questions and plea for advice
I have recently become responsible for managing both the web and email servers for a small business (users<10). I set up a 1GB Ram / 1 Processor VPS on 14.04 and installed iRedMail which installs...
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