I'm broken - apache setup - port forwarding
I'm cross posting this because /r/raspberry_pi couldn't resolve it and /r/linux4noobs didn't touch it with a barge pole. I'm sure that it's a pretty simple issue but I know fa about networking (or much...
View ArticleMotivation,distraction and waiting on computers to do computer things.
Curious how you other sysadmins deal with motivation and distraction. I've been adminning for about 15 years now and once in a while I get in a rut of being very distractible. I go on tangents of...
View ArticleWhich self-contained firewall image?
Hi, folks. I'm doing some upgrades to my home network and would like to replace my current mishmash of named, dhcp, ipkungfu, and various other network services, into a single self-contained firewall...
View Articleserver-side web-app known-CVS scanners
Hi, I'm already aware of the tools pyfiscan and freewvs to scan for outdated, locally installed web applications.Are there any others out there that you would recommend me?Edit: to clarify this: Those...
View ArticleImage release notes?
Does anyone ever have image release notes or tag your images somehow? Maybe a file in /etc along then lines of redhat-release? submitted by crankysysadmin [link][4 comments]
View ArticleColo server drive upgrade assistance
Just looking for ideas on the best and fastest way to upgrade drives in my colo server.It's a supermicro 1u box with 4 drive slots, It has a 3ware 9650 raid controller in it with 4x 1tb drives in it....
View ArticleExperiences with SUSE Manager?
Greetings,For a company I'm looking for a solution to estabilish a patch management system for a combination of SLES and RHEL servers.So far the only options left are either using Ansible + local repos...
View ArticleSo what are the best cities for linux admin jobs?
CentOS, Ubuntu, AIX, automation tools, cloud, etc. How would you compare Austin, Tampa, Sacramento, Phoenix, Dallas, etc? Is there anywhere that has employers desperate for semi-experienced unix...
View ArticleCurious about frequency of apt-get upgrade or yum updates...
I'll preface this with the fact that I'm the only admin in our <10 person company. We run ~25vms across 3 hypervisors. Its a mix of Ubuntu and Centos. We have a dev/test environment and a seperate...
View Articlewinexe 1.00.1 for CentOS 6 x86_64?
See subject. I am using winexe quite extensively to monitor and control several windows systems. Unfortunately, version 1.00-xxx does not work for windows 2012-r2. See This thread for details.I tried...
View Articledocker/container users & admins, what are your stories?
I get the container movement and all but I really cant see a justification for using them over VMs but it could just be my industry. I'm looking to get some real time stories and hopefully seeing some...
View ArticleWeb Based Password Manager
Hi, I'm looking for recommendations for a Password Manager that is both web based and free (open source). Preferably running on linux and multi user. submitted by spleen_pleez [link][3 comments]
View Articleold age problem with LVM
I have a server running SLES9 that refuses to scan in LVM drives. The server is old and has probably had many hands on it... so when i try to run a filter with no remove expressions in lvm.conf, and...
View Articleubuntu firewall
We're a CentOS 6 shop right now. We maintain iptables on our CentOS machines by editing /etc/sysconfig/iptables directly. This may or may not be an ideal practice, but it is what we're doing right...
View ArticleInstall Google Chrome on RHEL6 (using chrome-deps)
A while back google-chrome would no longer install on RHEL6.With the release of RHEL6.6, the only thing needed to get chrome to run is a newer version of libstdc++, a patched version of...
View Article/r/spacewalk has been created
Hope it helps someone. http://www.reddit.com/r/spacewalk/ submitted by manderso7 [link][6 comments]
View Articlerouting w/ iptables resources
Hi allI am building a virtual lab consisting of a range of hosts, all with their individual jobs e.g. DNS, NTP, HTTP etc. and all of them are in a private subnet with no external access. External...
View Articlechef crash course
I'm looking for something similar to what Satellite has where you can define 'configuration channels' which you can make sure a configuration file stays synced to a specific version among an array of...
View ArticleWhy should I pick one distro over another?
I'm not new to Linux, but I'm really wondering why I should pick one linux distro over another? I'm not talking about something to tinker and play with, I mean production boxes or boxes that have a...
View ArticleCentral tutorial journal
How interested would you guys be in having a blogging platform setup that is made for tutorials and general collecting of useful technical knowledge. I imagine something like blogger but with built in...
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