Sysadmin

There are apparently known problems (GitHub Issues #5807) in both Edge and Firefox with this newly released browser extension update (2023.7.0), which should hopefully be fixed soon.

Does anyone want to see sysadmin blogs/guides posted here? I used to check sysadminblogs but the quality of content used to vary a lot. Would this be helpful or just clutter the feed?

This is different from last week’s warning: bleepingcomputer.com/…/300-000-plus-fortinet-fire…...

We’re happy to announce the release of BusKill v0.7.0!...

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...

Will this community doing the monthly patch Tuesday thread that was on Reddit? Was sometimes pretty useful

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,...

Apparently they only sent 3 notification Emails, which a large number of their customers are reporting they never received. No one at InfluxData thought to do a scream test or even check the traffic levels to the region before deleting the data.

I have a customer with an old Windows Server 2012 with hyper v cluster configured for 2 nodes. One node died completely. I have 2 new HP proliant 360 Gen10 running Server 2022 DC and a big SAN, and I am trying to figure out the best way to move over the 6 VMs on the existing host. I’m new to this process but it seems like the...

I have inherited some cloud hosted vms, with several services hosted in docker containers on these. Think we server and then DB, both hosted in separate containers. Several (overpriced) vms are involved. Would really like some pointers as to how I can get into these / edit them. Would really like to consolidate. I use proxmox at...

“Good” as in something that looks just as good as an RH cert on my CV. I was considering LFCS, but I haven’t come across any job listings mention LFCS (at least, not where I live).

Incident started at 1645 UTC. No resolution yet.

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?

My organization just lost a entire email account full of emails needed for a law suite....

Hello,...

I was thinking of setting up a seedbox. Seeding will mean that the hard drive is being read from virtually non-stop. Is it fair to say that hard drives are designed for this? Or would this reduce the operational life-span of the hard drive?...

Getting really close to purchasing and I’m kinda on the fence between dmarcian, dmarcly, and easy dmarc. However, I’m open to pretty much anything with realistic pricing if you have alternatives to recommend....

Hello everyone,...

Working on a medium sized office network which only has a single PoE switch for WAPs. About 200 users. No copper to the desk… It made sense to buy a second PoE switch to give a bit of redundancy, even if it’s for manually swapping cables in case switch A dies....

Time for a new beginning!!!

Greetings SysAdmins. I am looking for a way to automate monthly windows updates for some of my servers. Currently I do them manually during maintenance period. The somewhat unique part I have is that they have to be done in order....