How to permanently ban an IP in ConfigServerFirewall (CSF)?
Hi guys (and girls?), I am having some difficulties with the CSF firewall.I have increased the deny_ip limit a bit. However there are some IP's that I would like to be in there permanently. Now the...
View ArticleForgive my stupidity, but what the hell is ruby compliance checking?
Guys/Gals, I've been tasked with "compliance checking" at my new job. Now, I'm not a developer, never claimed to be. I'm a fairly junior sysadmin, and my employer knows this. Yet they've seen fit to...
View ArticleQuestion about OpenLogic
Is the OpenLogic distro the same or equivalent to CentOS? I am just beggining to get an understanding of linux system administration. I have been a windows system admin for over 10 years and I realize...
View ArticleHow bad is running a server without MAC?
I know this is kind of a dumb question, but I'm in the process of setting up a Debian web server, and have encountered numerous problems trying to get Grsecurity working(trying to compile kernel 3.16,...
View Articledocker patching
So, I don't really get docker or how it can help my environment.For instance right now we can patch apache by running yum and it pulls the latest version from our local repo. This is very quick and...
View ArticleRHCSA exam - man pages
Was wondering - if it does not violate the NDA. For those of you who have taken the RHCSA 7, or 6, were you allowed to use the MAN pages built inside the server? submitted by mcgkev2009 [link][16...
View Article[question] What architecture/process do you use to update passwords in your...
Can you describe the process that you use in your corporate environment to update passwords? I am looking for different models to build and test. And wanting to learn best practices and how that...
View Article[question] Partitioning disks on Fedora 21
So, I'm a long-time linux user, at home and at work. Since the Fedora Project changed their install tools, specifically the disk partition piece, I have a really difficult time installing Fedora. I'm...
View ArticleLPI Exams and Command Options
I've just taken, and failed, the LPI-101 Exam. I am quite sure I know why I failed, I could not remember a good number of the command/program options. For example:How would you list the contents of...
View ArticleHave been tasked with doing a user security audit. What should I be looking for?
Obviously, all user accounts with login should be correlated with a list of current employees. But that doesn't seem very robust. Anything else I should look for? submitted by pupp3t33r [link][9 comments]
View Articlemkfs.ext4 options for larger than 4TB volumes?
I have an LVM volume using ext4 that seems to have capped out at 4TB and using lvextend and resize2fs are not increasing the available storage on the volume (although the LVM does show the volume is...
View ArticleBest Practices for giving non-root users read access to root only logs?
If you're going to say give them less/vi/vim access using the sudoers file, then please don't bother, it's the wrong answer (in my opinion). grep, tail or cat is a little better, but I am hoping...
View ArticleSoftware (mdadm) raid 1 first drive failed, server doesn't boot [x-post...
I had an issue recently with a server with two drives in software raid 1. /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. /dev/sda (sata port 0) died. I took the server offline and replaced it with a new drive. Server wouldn't...
View Articlereadlink blocked on /proc
Simple commands like w and ps end up blocking when they reach a readlink call on /proc/27887. Since its just one PID directory in /proc and not an entire mount point (eg: like when an NFS mount goes...
View ArticleLooking For Example User Creation Scripts
Hey guys, I've been asked to get one of our students involved with helping to manage and maintain some of the scripts we use for day to day tasks, but have found that he doesn't have a working...
View ArticleWe need a new server. Is a la carte linux admin a thing?
My company has decided to get another server to replace our aging windows server. This server would be used as a database server, a file server possibly a DNS server and would probably need a...
View ArticleBest way to learn linux.
Hello guys,I just rented a server from digitalocean, the most basic one, and created a droplet with centos.I'm a bit used to linux from the user level, but I've never been really an admin. I will start...
View ArticleOpen Source my environment!
Hi folks,I'm trying to spark an initiative to adopt some open-source tech in my workplace. I'm wondering if anyone has any input on good alternatives (that are reasonable in a Windows environment):...
View ArticleHelp with Backup Exec 2012 Ralus Linux agent
Hey guys,I was hoping someone could help me, im running Ubuntu 12 with linux kernal 3.13 and i have a windows server 2008 R2 which has Symantic Backup Exec 2012 running on it. That backup exec's linux...
View Articlemounting to a SAN share - is there a standard for locations?
I'm drafting up some long due documentation for a data consolidation project we've been doing at work. Part of this is setting a standard as to mounting this SAN share.For Windows it's easy, we just...
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