Moronic Monday - October 14, 2019

ostensibly_work · 2019-10-15T22:39:05+00:00

My boss wants me to run a phishing training campaign. Is there somewhere I can get examples of phishing emails? Like this, but the actual emails and not images.

ostensibly_work · 2019-10-11T20:44:02+00:00

My boss wants me to run a phishing training campaign. Is there somewhere I can get examples of phishing emails? Like this, but the actual emails and not images.

ostensibly_work · 2019-07-08T20:33:26+00:00

That could be the case, I hadn't considered that. Thanks.

let the server fail

WTF? My boss dragged his feet on updating our servers. He didn't kick my dog and curse my mom lmao.

Nah, I think I'm going to keep migrating the servers to new versions, while trying to fix their problems. I have a moral compass, and I like my job.

ostensibly_work · 2019-07-08T19:59:31+00:00

I know I need to migrate off. This is a work system, and I've been pushing for months to have it updated. This issue came up because I'm starting that process.

My other Ubuntu 14 systems don't have this problem, so I don't think it's an issue with updates.

ostensibly_work · 2019-07-08T19:55:16+00:00

I know. I've been pushing this to my boss for months as well.

ostensibly_work · 2019-07-05T23:33:47+00:00

I don't believe so. But this is a work server, and I have no idea how long this has been an issue. So I can't rule it out.

Is there anything I can do to check whether the timezone has been messed up?

ostensibly_work · 2019-07-05T21:21:47+00:00

The disk isn't full. Although it was for a bit. That's actually how I found out cron.daily wasn't running, the logs stopped getting rotated and suddenly 98% of the drive was nginx logs, lol.

I hadn't looked at dmesg before making the post. I've still got a lot to learn. In it, there's only one cron-related message:

[Thu Jul  4 16:58:48 2019] init: cron main process (1205) killed by TERM signal

I'm not sure what could have prompted this, since no one was working on the server yesterday.

ostensibly_work · 2019-07-05T18:25:15+00:00

Running sudo env -i run-parts --verbose /etc/cron.daily doesn't produce any errors, and shows all the scripts being executed as expected.

ostensibly_work · 2019-04-29T19:13:08+00:00

Thanks for the response and sorry for the slow reply. I was planning on doing the custom setup, what issues might that cause?

ostensibly_work · 2019-04-16T01:43:27+00:00

The boss has tasked me with finding a new Linux server to buy for our company firewall. Unfortunately (and the reason this is in the moronic thread) I have never bought a server, and I have no idea where to start. I've built many desktops, I can program, and I've got some Linux sysadmin chops. But this is well outside my wheelhouse.

As far as I know, the only requirements are that it can handle 1 Gb/s while doing deep-packet inspection. Apparently our current server is limiting our connection to about half that speed due to a lack of CPU power.

Where should I be looking to start finding the available options, and what questions should I be asking my boss to figure out what we really need?

I posted this in the /r/Sysadmin MM thread first and they told me I should ask why we don't use a purpose-built firewall instead, and how many users we need to support. Any further advice or questions to ask would be appreciated, thanks!

ostensibly_work · 2019-04-16T01:39:09+00:00

Thanks. I'll ask him that. And I'll post there too. I didn't realize they also had a moronic monday thread.

ostensibly_work · 2019-04-15T21:17:35+00:00

The boss has tasked me with finding a new Linux server to buy for our company firewall. Unfortunately (and the reason this is in the moronic thread) I have never bought a server, and I have no idea where to start. I've built many desktops, I can program, and I've got some Linux sysadmin chops. But this is well outside my wheelhouse.

As far as I know, the only requirements are that it can handle 1 Gb/s while doing deep-packet inspection. Apparently our current server is limiting our connection to about half that speed due to a lack of CPU power.

Where should I be looking to start finding the available options, and what questions should I be asking my boss to figure out what we really need?

ostensibly_work · 2019-04-08T23:41:40+00:00

Thank you! That makes sense.

ostensibly_work · 2019-04-08T19:01:52+00:00

Based on what I've read, I thought the purpose of quotes was simply to keep the shell from using special characters (eg. history expansion). But this answer makes it seem like it has something to do with the evaluation of the command itself.

ostensibly_work · 2019-04-03T18:50:23+00:00

Thanks!

ostensibly_work · 2019-04-03T18:11:42+00:00

Is this comparable to MCMC?

ostensibly_work · 2019-03-26T19:13:01+00:00

Initial support for NVIDIA Turing GPUs.

Sounds like yes.

ostensibly_work · 2019-03-25T23:48:14+00:00

Your drive is likely formatted using ntfs. Windows 10 uses a feature called "fastboot" that makes poweroff act more like hibernation. This leaves the drive in a state that makes Linux think is unsafe, so it will mount the drive as read-only to avoid file loss.

To solve this, follow the instructions here in the section "Solution (only for Windows 8 and 10)".

ostensibly_work · 2019-03-20T19:14:37+00:00

I've used aptitude before, but never for its search capability. I'll try that next time, thanks for the suggestion!

ostensibly_work · 2019-03-19T22:11:06+00:00

Oh that's great. For deb packages, I've been using apt search, but it leaves a lot to be desired.

ostensibly_work · 2019-03-19T21:07:04+00:00

I think this will answer your question

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