@scottalanmiller said in New to Linux Administration: RHEL-Based or Debian-Based OS: I agree, both is the obvious choice. But to truly answer the question, I'd focus on Ubuntu (not Debian) and then RHEL. Debian is great, but it is Ubuntu specifically that has the market. Yes, almost the same is never the same as exactly the same.

@Dashrender Gotta love Bob-

Just install one of the old supported OSes on another drive, reboot and run the firmware update. It's a self extracting executable. With HP and Dell, it's their intention to support you by providing an additional layer of management on top of the actual manufacturers product. But you have to be in warranty to be able to leverage that support. If you intend to run equipment longer than the 5 year warranty, don't use Dell or HP or live without any firmware upgrades or support. If you use Dell or HP, replace hardware when it's out of warranty. HP Gen8 servers are from 2012-2013 so 7-8 years old and not the best candidates for new installations.

2nd attempt worked!

@stacksofplates said in Installing Hugo Static Website Generator on Linux: @scottalanmiller said in Installing Hugo Static Website Generator on Linux: @stacksofplates said in Installing Hugo Static Website Generator on Linux: @scottalanmiller said in Installing Hugo Static Website Generator on Linux: However, they don't have any standard Linux install documentation on their website and only show using Homebrew, a MacOS package that essentially no one on Linux uses. Very odd. I just looked. I'm not sure what you're talking about. The page clearly shows snaps, dnf, apt, pacman, eopgk, and pkg_add for OpenBSD. https://gohugo.io/getting-started/installing Completely different than what I got from the same link this morning. I went to that page, clicked on Linux, and they only showed Brewlinux, which isn't even the current name of the system. Way back machine shows it's been there since at least the 13th. https://web.archive.org/web/20191113183617/https://gohugo.io/getting-started/installing/ Very weird. I wonder if it was a cache somewhere? I definitely poked around this morning and Linuxbrew was the only thing that it had and had it from every link that I tried on their site.

Congrats

@Pete-S Ok, I went ahead and let the installer partition it using the defaults for LVM. Everything is working! The installer creates a small primary partition and installs /boot to it. It then creates an extended partition with the remainder of the drive and slices up logicals out of that for the LVM. It puts “/“ in vg1 as “lv root” and puts /swap in vg1 as well as lv swap”. I was not creating a /boot. Never have. I was just creating a primary for the “/“ and then saving some of it for an extended /swap. I’ve done this forever. It even works in a VM. I have no idea why I couldn’t get it to work on the physical machine.

We use ghost adapters to allow EDID hi res with no head attached, I wonder if there is one that forces 640x480? I'll search around...

@IRJ said in Splunk vs iptables: iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth0 -p tcp --sport 9997 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT Looks like the solution was iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT Or at least that got it working.

@scottalanmiller said in EFI Pace Won't Start After Vault Configuration Change: Had to deal with Fiery too. I think they misspelled that name slightly. Fire that company (I know, you wish they would.)

Something in the shutdown triggers a start of a service or doesn't stop in time. Since something is still running the shutdown never completes. Looking at the screenshot for instance it says "Stopping monitoring of LVM2 mirrors, snapshots etc. using dmeventd or progress polling...". But there is no acknowledgment [OK] that it has completed. I'd start looking there.

@marcinozga said in Linux partitioning: @travisdh1 said in Linux partitioning: @marcinozga said in Linux partitioning: @travisdh1 said in Linux partitioning: @marcinozga said in Linux partitioning: @travisdh1 said in Linux partitioning: @marcinozga said in Linux partitioning: @JaredBusch said in Linux partitioning: @marcinozga said in Linux partitioning: Last option on that screen. Why? Because if your root partition fills up, your system won't boot. Having /var on separate partition reduces that risk. Think of a bad app creating gigabytes of log entries, or writing junk to database. Better solution, don't use bad apps You never know if an app or kernel update doesn't go nuts. Here's an example of bad kernel module causing writing gigs of logs in minutes: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/195360/my-var-log-is-mysteriously-filling-up-gbs-in-minutes-any-cure-before-i-re-ins Sure it's possible, but how many times do we see this sort of thing in normal use day to day? This is the first one I've heard of in years. Used to happen more often because bad programming was more common. Take Ubuntu for example, it will fill up /boot after a few kernel upgrades, so anything is possible. That's a known badly implemented system. IE bad programming. Don't use it. Also, it has nothing to do with /var filling up. It's just an example of partition filling up, doesn't matter which one. It proves the point that it does happen. In your example, they are causing a new problem because they've implemented your solution to the problem. No, it would've had the same outcome if /boot wasn't on separate partition, but under root. Eventually it would've filled up entire disk with old kernel versions. The main point is to prevent root partition from filling up, not any other mount point. That's not really true. That's making a lot of assumptions. In reality... It would not likely ever fill up. The scales are so different. This is where creating a separate /boot actually CREATES the risk. The very pattern you are trying to follow is the one causing the issue. It has lots and lots of chances for humans AND monitoring systems to catch and resolve it long before becoming an issue. This should have years, typically, to be flagged rather than filling up in a day or two.

Works on Debian 10.

Wow this must be an old server. pam_tally was replaced with faillock in RHEL 6.

@dustinb3403 said in Phoronix Publishes Windows vs. Linux Network Benchmarks: That is surprisingly disappointing. Server 2016 is supposedly the best thing ever. . . Of course it is, if you get paid to support it!

@black3dynamite said in Do we dislike Ubuntu: @nadnerb ElementaryOS is nice but you might not like the idea of not able to save items to your Desktop. Deepin is pretty good too. Just not on by default. You can enable it... http://www.fosslinux.com/141/how-to-enable-adding-files-and-folders-to-desktop-in-elementary-os-freya.htm

@emad-r said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal: @jaredbusch I love Debian very customized 20 + installation steps... said no one ever. I like options. It's not like you're going to go through all 20 steps for every installation once you have a base image setup, at least I'd hope not.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/debian-gnu-linux-9-1-stretch-and-debian-8-9-jessie-officially-released-517107.shtml

@Dashrender said in Cross Post - Help sorting out a Firewall Issue on a Debian Box: A default gateway on the debian box? My thought. I don't think I've seen a system firewall not accept icmp by default. If you stop iptables and still can't ping it's not the firewall.

My Linux is better than your Linux.

@scottalanmiller said in Debian File Server File Recovery: @coliver said in Debian File Server File Recovery: @dafyre said in Debian File Server File Recovery: @travisdh1 said in Debian File Server File Recovery: @stacksofplates said in Debian File Server File Recovery: @dafyre said in Debian File Server File Recovery: @stacksofplates said in Debian File Server File Recovery: @wirestyle22 said in Debian File Server File Recovery: We finally found the replication point and recovered the file. One thing I noticed working here is that the VM's are not named the host names. I looked for it for hours across all of our subdomains and could not find it. I had to go through each individual VM and eventually found it. We still have some old Unix white beards that do this. It annoys the crap out of me. He just set up a server and called it Odin..... That's all fine and good as long as odin.mydomain.net actually resolves to that actual server, lol. Ya it just annoys me ha. Everything else is named by purpose. Our one server... it got names Zues. Of course we knew it was going to be just the 1 server for the foreseeable future. If you must use Planets, Greek gods, Mythical creatures, et al... Please make sure they are pselled correctly to avoid further confusion. I don't understand the reason to do that over function. I'd much rather name a server WDS01 then Ptah01. Potato01 Cauliflower7 Aubergine4

@Pete-S said in Xen Orchestra - Community Edition - Installing with Yarn: @travisdh1 said in Xen Orchestra - Community Edition - Installing with Yarn: @DustinB3403 said in Xen Orchestra - Community Edition - Installing with Yarn: @travisdh1 what issue are you referring too? As far as I recall everything that is needed is included in the appropriate script install/upgrade It's git, not the scripts. Since you need to have your git user information entered for it to work, would be good to have it added to the instructions. I don't understand. Do you have to have a github account and be logged in to be able to download anything from github? I can reach this without being logged in: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jarli01/xenorchestra_installer/master/xo_install.sh No you don't have to actually have an account, it's a git requirement to put something in there though and we don't autofill that information in case someone wants to supply their account details.

@scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x: @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x: @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x: Did it work? Not confirmed yet, but I'll post when I know. Thanks From what I can tell, yes it worked. That's both the no sleep and no login password required.