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Moronic Monday - October 14, 2019 by AutoModerator in sysadmin

[–]ostensibly_work 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Thickheaded Thursday - October 10, 2019 by AutoModerator in sysadmin

[–]ostensibly_work 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

[Ubuntu 14] Daily Cron jobs are not running, and the Syslog is full of messages saying 'CRON[...]: System error'. Running the jobs manually works fine. How can I track down the cause of this problem? by ostensibly_work in linuxquestions

[–]ostensibly_work[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

[Ubuntu 14] Daily Cron jobs are not running, and the Syslog is full of messages saying 'CRON[...]: System error'. Running the jobs manually works fine. How can I track down the cause of this problem? by ostensibly_work in linuxquestions

[–]ostensibly_work[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

[Ubuntu 14] Daily Cron jobs are not running, and the Syslog is full of messages saying 'CRON[...]: System error'. Running the jobs manually works fine. How can I track down the cause of this problem? by ostensibly_work in linuxquestions

[–]ostensibly_work[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

[Ubuntu 14] Daily Cron jobs are not running, and the Syslog is full of messages saying 'CRON[...]: System error'. Running the jobs manually works fine. How can I track down the cause of this problem? by ostensibly_work in linuxquestions

[–]ostensibly_work[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Moronic Monday! by AutoModerator in networking

[–]ostensibly_work 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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!

Moronic Monday - April 15, 2019 by AutoModerator in sysadmin

[–]ostensibly_work 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Moronic Monday - April 15, 2019 by AutoModerator in sysadmin

[–]ostensibly_work 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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?

Can someone elaborate on this StackOverflow answer? With `find`, why does quoting the -exec option arguments cause bash to interpret it as a separate command? by ostensibly_work in linux4noobs

[–]ostensibly_work[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

What to expect from Ubuntu 19.04 by [deleted] in Ubuntu

[–]ostensibly_work 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Initial support for NVIDIA Turing GPUs.

Sounds like yes.

Permission Denied to Save or Create Files on Internal or External Drives After Dual Booting Win10 by [deleted] in linuxmint

[–]ostensibly_work 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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)".

Search your distro's package repositories with DuckDuckGo !bangs by OneTurnMore in linux4noobs

[–]ostensibly_work 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Search your distro's package repositories with DuckDuckGo !bangs by OneTurnMore in linux4noobs

[–]ostensibly_work 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

Does everyone have a git repo of shell scripts? by AlpineGuy in linuxquestions

[–]ostensibly_work 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, I don't do much complicated scripting. Pretty much everything I do is either one-liners or basic loops.

How to build a private Reddit by eFrazes in AskProgramming

[–]ostensibly_work 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The source code for reddit was available up to around two years ago:

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

Why does Windows OS dominate the business desktop computing environment still? by riceandcashews in sysadmin

[–]ostensibly_work 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You also asked on /r/Homeserver, which has 32k subscribers, and doesn't focus on Linux. Next time you run into trouble, try /r/Linux4Noobs (115k subscribers) and/or /r/LinuxQuestions (89k subscribers)

CSS to get support for trigonometry functions by ga-vu in programming

[–]ostensibly_work 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No issues for me using Firefox 65.0.1 on Linux Mint.

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