Looking for Advice from wiser Admin senpai's
I'll preface this with, I hope that this is in the spirit of this sub-reddit as I lurk on this sub-reddit regularly and feel I don't have enough experience to provide insightful information to the...
View ArticleIf you were stuck on a desert island with only 5 command-line utilities,...
I asked this to an interviewee today.. It's a really thought provoking question!! What would you say?? submitted by thebiggestmeech [link][1 comment]
View ArticleHow to get kvm bridged reliably?
I have been playing around with a graphical kvm virtual machine so I won't have to install Citrix Receiver on my main system because It doesn't meet my software standards being 32 bit on a 64 bit...
View ArticleRead Only Wenesday
So, with this the last day before a holiday, and the last thing any of us wants to do is work... er, I mean, break things before a holiday, what are you all working on besides basic support?Myself, I...
View ArticleLinux Server Migration
Hey Guys! I run a gaming community as a hobby, and I've been using linux systems for about 2 years now. I know my way around linux fairly well, and I am able to manage our 2 OVH dedicated servers and 1...
View ArticleGentoo in production
Hi everyone,I'll soon start in a new position where all the servers are gentoo boxes. I'll be the only sysadmin in the beginning, the previous one left a while ago, but the developers did get their...
View ArticleQuick question from a newbie...
What is the term for making a user/process & child process only be able to run in a specific root directory? submitted by NadoSorc [link][3 comments]
View ArticleNginx rewrite query parameters (xpost r/nginx)
I have a WordPress website running and I want to rewrite /feed, /rss and /rss2 to feedpress, including trailing slashes and everything people throw behind the URI as a typo or whatever. So I did this...
View ArticleMemtest86 questions
I have been having segfaults on some applications so I decided to run a memtest. It ran all night and this is what I came to this morning: http://imgur.com/4tszOjH.jpg Never having dealt with non-ECC...
View ArticleOpenVPN issue when using two-factor authentication
I'm trying to setup OpenVPN for use with two-factor authentication, specifically WiKID. I can connect to the server without issue when two-factor is disabled, however, when I enable two-factor I get...
View ArticleWhat do you guys use to maintain perl libraries ?
just joined this new gig. Perl installs are a mess, looks like a contractor tried to copy .pm files and the dir structure across the board on all machines.What is the right way to go at this, cpan on...
View ArticleDMZ on Digital Ocean (or any) VPS service
I would like to set up a dmz for a set of servers that I have on digital pcean but I'm not entirely sure how to do it without using an actual router. Is there a way to make a vps act as a router for...
View ArticleSSH Session recording Gateway
Is anybody using a ssh-recording gateway? I have a vsphere-setup with a private LAN that has multiple servers that i need to give access to different admins via ssh. I want to monitor and record the...
View ArticleNeed some help with a baffling networking issue
Server A and Server B are identical, hardware-wise and configuration-wise. Both NFS mount several shares from Server C. Server A has developed an issue where it is 10x slower than Server B when writing...
View ArticleHow do you keep your technical docs / howtos organized and searchable ?
Like all admins, I have a large variety of HOWTOs, shortcuts, notes, and lessons-learned from running a bunch of systems and software over the years.What are folks using these days to keep that stuff...
View ArticleHow do you manage your passwords?
I'm looking for a convenient solution for managing passwords in my pure Linux home infrastructure. This means it needs a decent GUI for the wife and kids to use, as well as Firefox integration. I...
View ArticleAutomatic SFTP post processing
I have a chrooted sftp environment where multiple users upload files to their own home directory. Can anyone recommend a simple elegant way to run some automatic post processing on the file as soon as...
View ArticlePython mirror for machines that do not have access to the internet?
I use puppet and the pip provider to install python modules. Unfortunately, the pip provider requires access to pypi.python.org and its XMLRPC server. Most of the pypi mirrors I have looked into...
View ArticleAnyone using EL (RHEL/CentOS) 7 in production?
Are you using new features, or just treating it like 6? /What were the biggest gotchas? Thoughts about Systemd? submitted by gleventhal [link][6 comments]
View ArticleHow do you manage your emails?
With this I do not mean what servers do you use or what IMAP and POP or bla bla bla.I mean what do you use to read mail from your home? I've tried mutt, getmail, fetchmail, msmtp and many others but...
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