@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.

I believe Ubuntu just announced that 5.10 was coming in 21.04 as well.

Booted straight to the CentOS 4 ISO, went into linux rescue, updated the initrd img and bam. working system from the current (as of 4 days ago) manual disk images I made. Next project to re-learn how they restore data files. Have not done that in almost 10 years. Having no virtual infrastructure to play with, prior to this, made that harder.

@Pete-S said in How to use firewall-cmd to verify that tcp 80 & 443 is open?: One thing that would be nice to have, something that I've used on hardware firewalls, is a command that will simulate packets through the firewall rules to see if they will pass or not. I've not seen something like that for iptables/netfilter. Not sure about simulating, but you can always send packets at it and use iptables -v to see the counters.

@Pete-S said in How do I install gparted on RHEL 7.7 with GUI?: @JaredBusch said in How do I install gparted on RHEL 7.7 with GUI?: @Pete-S yum install epel-release absolutely should work. If I understand correctly yum install epel-release only works on CentOS, not real RHEL. It was a fresh install too from rhel-server-7.7-x86_64-dvd.iso Ah, you are correct. I skimmed the RHEL bit. Totally my bad.

@wirestyle22 said in Breakdown of what is installed and running in RHEL: @DustinB3403 Appreciated You're welcome.

@Pete-S said in What PHP version does RHEL 7.7 come with?: @scottalanmiller said in What PHP version does RHEL 7.7 come with?: @Pete-S said in What PHP version does RHEL 7.7 come with?: If Red Hat had more resources they could have released a major version each year and then supported it for ten years. Then you'd never have anything older than one year on a new inst Yes, you would. If you use RHEL 7 and even if RHEL 8 came out th enext day, and RHEL 9 a week later... if you stay on RHEL 7 your code would not change. I said "New install" Scott. You are saying the exact same thing as I did. Oh I see what you are saying. No one does that, though, they have STS for that. Fedora, Ubuntu Current, Normal Windows 2019. They all do STS. LTS makes no sense in the real world if you are willing to use what is new at install time.

@scottalanmiller said in Get Active User Login Count from Dovecot: cat /var/log/maillog | grep pop3-login:\ Login | sed -e 's/.Login: user=<(.)>, method=.*/\1/g' | sort | uniq | wc -l This tiny variation will get you all logins from all logs that you have stored. cat /var/log/maillog* | grep pop3-login:\ Login | sed -e 's/.*Login: user=<\(.*\)>, method=.*/\1/g' | sort | uniq | wc -l

@Pete-S said in RHEL 8 is out!: If you missed it Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 was released a couple of days ago. https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-linux-8 Hopefully CentOS 8 will be soon to follow. They have a timeline on their site.

@FATeknollogee said in oVirt Host Choices for Production: @EddieJennings I would start by using oVirt Node (it's based on CentOS), it's the simplest, least hassled way of setting up. Yeah, they have their own Node deployer, I'd generally just use that.

@Emad-R said in Installing MS SQL Server Express on CentOS: Et me guess it is much faster on Linux than on Windows server No idea, but it is one less Windows Server license needed. Also MS SQL Server Express works well for many tasks.

@StorageNinja said in Why I Feel KVM Is the Easiest HyperVisor to Learn the Basics On: @Dashrender said in Why I Feel KVM Is the Easiest HyperVisor to Learn the Basics On: The question is - why is the quality so bad? Isn't the process supposed to catch bad quality? Their process is consider the windows insider group (extreme power users) to be a good enough replacement for proper QE teams, and writing automated build tests. Right, the new process isn't to catch bad things, it's actually to see bad things as "not all that bad." Presumably because a shift from viewing their products as being for business to being for entertainment. Remember when Windows 95 was a key tool for businesses, but by Windows 98 they had made sure to put a "for entertainment purposes only" label on the product to make sure no one confused it with something that was intended for business use? I feel like that's where they are now. At least internally, no one is really thinking of this as a business tool.

Good to know, I use Ubuntu/Debian so I will check for that.

@black3dynamite said in Red Hat Discontinuing KDE in RHEL and CentOS: @travisdh1 said in Red Hat Discontinuing KDE in RHEL and CentOS: @scottalanmiller said in Red Hat Discontinuing KDE in RHEL and CentOS: @travisdh1 said in Red Hat Discontinuing KDE in RHEL and CentOS: @black3dynamite Aha! They both did it! Yes, I have a thing about an entire desktop worth of space getting forced down into one little bar, and the menu being at least 2 clicks deeper than it was. Why is the menu deeper? I don't prefer this setup either, but it's no deeper. It's still a button on the desktop for me. Because as the admin/geek, everything I want/need to use is a submenu of the all programs menu. Granted I mostly just favorite a terminal emulator and be done with it, but it is much farther to move around and menus for me to get through. Give me Cinnamon with a hotkey set for the menu any day. As long as the search function works, I usually find what I need by searching for it. ^ this

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

@jaredbusch said in How to use a systemd timer instead of cron to automate a git pull: Oh look I just found this posted here already /sigh.. So many questions I could have not asked of @stacksofplates, had I recalled this thread. https://mangolassi.it/topic/13455/systemd-timers-instead-of-cron I honestly forgot I posted that.

@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

Kind of interesting, handy to have a simple way to get real RHEL, I guess.

Has potential, has anyone played with it in any way yet?

Just installed on CentOS 7.6 with XFS. Still flawless install.

talking about number of packages, this has always been my reference: http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/ if a distro has it packaged it is quite sure they have anything both debian and suse have it.

We ran into this issue last week with several legacy applications we soon hope to commit to the bone yard...

@gjacobse said in Managing Multiple Linux Servers via the Browser with Cockpit: I haven't read the article yet,... but would be nice if it is available on Windows - However, that said. I can just set up a VM and run there.... I don't do a massive amount of managing Linux Servers, but sometimes it would be helpful.. Not even on most Linux yet.

Oops.

Just as a comparison, here's what it would look like with Ansible: name: Recursively own html files file: path: /var/www/html owner: apache group: apache state: directory recurse: yes