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I have installed CentOS 7.7 Minimal Server Linux on a VirtualBox Virtual Environment as a test bed machine. The system got installed easily succesfully with the standard CentOS python based graphical...
View ArticleGet daily E-Mail Reports statistics on postfix Linux mail server
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View ArticleHow to check how many processor and volume groups IBM AIX eServer have
In daily sysadmin duties I have been usually administrating GNU / Linux or FreeBSD servers. However now in my daily sysadmin jobs I've been added to do some minor sysadmin activities on a few IBM AIX...
View ArticleLinux Send Monitoring Alert Emails without Mail Server via relay SMTP with...
If you have to setup a new Linux server where you need to do a certain local running daemons monitoring with a custom scripts on the local machine Nagios / Zabbix / Graphana etc. that should notify...
View ArticleStop SSH Bruteforce authentication attempt Attacks with fail2ban
Most of webmasters today have some kind of SSH console remote access to the server and the OpenSSH Secure Shell service is usually not filtered for specific Networks but fully accessbible on the...
View ArticleLinux: Howto Disable logging for all VirtualHosts on Apache and NGINX...
Did you happen to administer Apache Webservers or NGINX webservers whose logs start to grow so rapidly that are flooding the disk too quickly? Well this happens sometimes and it also happens that...
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View ArticleMake Laptop Sleep on LID (Monitor) close in Linux Debian and Ubuntu systemd...
I need to make my laptop automatically sleep on LID Screen close but it doesn't why? If have used your laptop for long years with Windows or any Windows user is used to the default beavrior of Windows...
View ArticleSysadmin tip: How to force a new Linux user account password change after...
Have you logged in through SSH to remote servers with the brand new given UNIX account in your company just to be prompted for your current Password immediately after logging and forced to change your...
View ArticleImprove SSL security: Generate and add Diffie Hellman key to SSL certificate...
Diffie–Hellman key exchange (DH) is a method of securely exchanging cryptographic keys over a public channel and was one of the first public-key protocols as conceived by Ralph Merkle and named after...
View ArticleFix eth changing network interface names from new Linux naming scheme ens,...
On CentOS / RHEL 7 / Fedora 19+ and other Linux distributions, the default network eth0, eth1 .. interface naming scheme has been changed and in newer Linux kernels OS-es to names such as – ens3 ,...
View ArticleHow to debug failing service in systemctl and add a new IP network alias in...
If you get some error with some service that is start / stopped via systemctl you might be pondering how to debug further why the service is not up then then you'll be in the situation I was today....
View ArticleHow to install jcmd on CentOS 7 to diagnose running Java Virtual Machine...
jcmd utility is well known in the Brane New wonderful world of Java but if you're like me a classical old school sysadmins and non-java developer you probably never heard it hence before going...
View ArticleLinux show largest sized packages / Which Deb, RPM Linux installed package...
A very common problem that happens on both Linux installed servers and Desktop Linux is a starting to fill / (root partition). This problem could happen due to several reasons just to point few of...
View ArticleCheck when Windows Active Directory user expires and set user password expire...
If you're working for a company that is following high security / PCI Security Standards and you're using m$ Windows OS that belongs to the domain it is useful to know when your user is set to expiry...
View Articleipmitool: Reset and manage IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) /...
As a system administration nomatter whether you manage a bunch of server in a own brew and run Data Center location with some Rack mounted Hardware like PowerEdge M600 / ProLiant DL360e G8 / ProLiant...
View ArticleHow to do Diff (compare files) over SSH between local and remote servers on...
In system administration often we need to compare files located on a different servers, copying the files from Server A to Server B is easy to do but is time consuming as you have use some console ftp...
View ArticleHow to clear ARP cache on Linux / Windows for a single IP address / Flush All...
On times of Public Internet IP migration or Local IPs between Linux servers or especially in clustered Linux Application Services running on environments like Pacemaker / Corosync / Heartbeat with...
View ArticleRsync copy files with root privileges between servers with root superuser...
Sometimes on servers that follow high security standards in companies following PCI Security (Payment Card Data Security) standards it is necessery to have a very weird configurations on servers,to...
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