Sysadmin

I’m sending this to my boss to remind him why monitoring disk space is vital.

I plan to move an external DNS server to a hosted VPS in the near future. I would appreciate advice on VPS specs for this purpose, or an other helpful feedback from others who have done this before. I’ve used a lot of low end boxes to host web services, and would like to do that with this project as well but don’t want to...

Hopefully this does not affect you but if you are running something like Arch, OpenSUSE tumbleweed, Debian sid or Fedora Rawhide and use SSH for remote access you should do a full wipe.

Honestly all new lenovos have been giving me issues, webcams break, stop charging, except for those black thinkpads… This one suddenly decided to go display Chinese text and display goes black randomly

Hello everyone....

I’ve been trying to swap out a dead computer that operates a scale but the scale software is a pain in the ass. What have you guys been up to?

cross-posted from: bolha.forum/post/199189...

My company is about to shift a large workload to a vendor that uses an RD Gateway hosted at Amazon to serve access to the front-end application. It’s open to the internet at 443. There’s no MFA. How worried should I be?

Hello c/sysadmin, and welcome to the Patch Megathread! I’m editing this post and leaving it up as a single catch-all sticky post for patch days for the time being, since we’re not seeing enough activity to warrant new threads IMO. If someone wants to help moderate / curate content and actively create new patch day posts,...

We may all be in trouble

Caesars’ 8-K also implies that a ransom demanded by the attackers was paid to prevent the leak of the stolen data online—a Wall Street Journal report says the hotel and casino entertainment company paid roughly $15 million, half of the attackers’ initial $30 million demand.

Is it just me or is the learning curve a lot greater with Zabbix? The error messages seem extremely vague or completely useless. The web GUI fields don’t have proper validation. They moved a lot of things around in the 6.4 version and now googling a solution gives me out of date info. The template network sensors are picking...

Hello friends. Work email is crushing me. The ticketing systems, plural, email me on everyone's tucket. (Because some people only work tickets via email and others through the web interface.)...

I was wondering how often does one choose to make and keep back ups. I know that “It depends on your business needs”, but that is rather vague and unsatisfying, so I was hoping to hear some heuristics from the community. Like say I had a workstation/desktop that is acting as a server at a shop (taking inventory / sales...

Has anyone used sunshine/moonlight for low latency remote desktop? I’ve used it for remote gaming but I since I’ve had good experiences I though it might be testing for work....

cross-posted from: derp.foo/post/323269...

Hey guys,...

I’m thinking about using it to replace my companies legacy websites system. I need it to allow managers to log in and change prices on websites that are a part of a facility (each website has its own domain)

Simply put, what the title says....

I have seen the documentation saying to build an empty VM with slightly more space for each volume than was on the physical server, then use clonezilla to create an image of the server, then import it. That seems ok, but I’m hoping someone out there has more real-world experience in doing this and can share if they did it...

We’re installing a new app on a secure network. The vendor has requested we allow access to gstatic.com. That seems overly broad to me and unsafe. Thoughts?

I’m looking into building a new remote management with mesh VPNs but it may turn out not to be practical.