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Linux Admin Volunteer Opportunities?

Does anyone know of any good volunteer opportunities for linux admins. I am interested in boosting my skills and donating some of my time to further a worthy cause. submitted by networkant [link][10...

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Will having a web based resume give me an edge?

My last job search went bust 6 months ago and I am babysitting yet another Enterprise Applications. I finally have my VPS in a pretty workable state to deploy my websites including a joomla based web...

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Anyone willing to share their /etc/sudoers file?

I'm wondering if anyone out there has good examples of a practical functional sudoers file that's actually restricted in a meaningful way that they'd be willing to share. I'd like to build a proper...

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Hugepages - how much to allocate?

Ive never really had to support large databases before and Im having an argument with another SysAdmin. Could use an impartial party to tell me if Im wrong and I should apologize... :)Their VM has 16Gb...

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Patch Management Dashboard (PatchMD) v1.0 RC1 has been released

Another developer and myself have released version 1.0 Release Candidate 1. This comes with admin/user segregation, pull mechanism via HTTP/HTTPS (HTTP isn't recommended, because access codes are...

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Raid 1 + Encryption (Desktop Linux) Tutorial?

Looking for tutorial for setting up RAID 1 on two drives and encrypting / and /swap. I got elementary OS to boot and then it went to initramfs. Don't know what I'm doing wrong. Point me in the right...

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OpenVPN, FreeIPA authentication

I have a hard time finding any information about this combination. Does anyone know if it's possible to authenticate directly against the ldap server in FreeIPA or any other solution. Thanks in...

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Looking to gain more experience and learn new things

Okay so I've used Debian for quite a while now (2-3 years) on VPS servers, and today I took a big step and purchased a dedi server at hetzner. It's going to be used for everything, such as seedbox,...

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Replacing Software Stacks Is Never The Solution

submitted by Mojah [link][15 comments]

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Nginx routing not working in sub-directory

i'm having trouble with routing Klein PHP urls using Nginx. Here is the current file setup i'm using.api -- index.php Klein -- index.php And here is the configuration i'm using.server { listen 80; root...

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Fail2Ban wordpress xmlrpc

Has anyone had success blocking xmlrpc attacks on wordpress?I've loaded a few different jails I've found online & even took a stab at making my own but nothing is working... submitted by...

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Geek Sheldon admires in a new advertisement classified techno

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RHCE, email and MTA resources

HiI have reached the point of my RHCE studies where I'm learning about MTA and email in general. Or rather, not learning. I am confused as all heck. Does anyone know of any good resources that lay out...

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LXC bridging with 2 NICs

I have a LXContainer attached to a bridge on my host (br0). eth0 in the container gets it's IP by DHCP from an external server, so I just set the hwaddres of the nic to the one configured in the DHCP...

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Multiple servers, one ip address (xpost from learnprogramming)

My roommate and I are working to set up servers at our house. I am having a few issues, so here is the relevent information and questions:1) My idea is to set up virtual servers (using vmware) on a...

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Can I do the equivalent of recording a macro with the Linux shell?

Basically I want to log all my keystrokes and timing, and then be able to play them back and have it actually perform the commands I typed in (not just display them) if that makes any sense. Similar to...

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Difficulties with Varnish GeoIP Vmod (xpost from sysadmin)

Alright, I didn't even make it to the point of putting together a package for Ansible to install on my Vagrant box -- I can't seem to properly compile the GeoIP Vmod for Varnish. I'm attempting to use...

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Need guidance in setting up CentOS 7 email server

There are a couple tutorials on how to do it, but I wanted to check with this community if there is a specific one to follow. Also, I am taking general recommendations. submitted by ProgressCheck...

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Anyone using Redhat Satellite 6?

Curious if anyone out there is managing their Redhat Linux environment with the new Satellite 6? We are still on Satellite 5 and my understanding is that version 6 is a complete rewrite, with lots of...

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Need some advice for setting up cloud storage.

I have to set up some cloud storage, and I was thinking about using some rPi's with a few 4TB HDD's each spread across a few continents. The use case is basically several TB of large, mostly-unchanging...

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