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SSH key pair ONLY accepted by sshd in debug mode
Using Rocky 9.4, OpenSSH 8.7p1, I have an RSA keypair which is not accepted unless sshd is in debug mode. (Thankfully I have an old pair that works).
I have unset SSH_AUTH_SOCK and verified that no ...
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How can I get the Dell iDRAC IP address from Linux?
Somehow, the entry for our iDRAC got lost from the DNS.
Is there a way to discover the iDRAC IP address from Linux (RHEL 8) running on the node?
Rebooting to check the physical console is not an ...
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DNS: What is missing from this SOA?
opensuse LEAP 15.6
linux v6.4.0-150600.23.47-default x86_64
BIND 9.18.33
I have tried various changes to the SOA record in named.conf. I do not understand what is missing or incorrect.
The only ...
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How to avoid Apache restarts at midnight?
I have an Ubuntu 22 server with apache server, it seems that daily at midnight the service is restarted (not reloaded) due to logrotate process.
This restart makes my service unavailable for a while ...
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Whois Query to .app TLD gives "getaddrinfo(whois.nic.app): Name or service not known"
I searched everywhere online, and all sources seem to suggest that it's a DNS resolution issue. However, DNS resolve fine on my machine, and whois queries to other TLDs (e.g. .com) doesn't have this ...
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How can 10G link be slower to WAN than 1G link, on the same machine?
I'm using the following command to test network speed to my.remote.server, from my workstation:
dd if=/dev/random | pv | ssh my.remote.server "dd of=/dev/null"
When I set en0 to 10Gb, ...
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Horribly messed ZFS pool after power cut
After a hard power cut and a UPS failure y ZFS pool is in a state I cannot understand:
$ zpool status -c serial
pool: storage
state: DEGRADED
status: One or more devices could not be used because ...
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Will full swap slow down the server even though RAM is free
For some reason, we have a server with 1.5Tb of RAM, yet the swap memory keeps on filling up, and it's not being freed:
Will this hinder server performance? Given the large RAM availability, I'd ...
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In default Postfix "master.cf", why is "smtpd_reject_unlisted_recipient" set to "no" for submission?
In the default /etc/postfix/master.cf (for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, at least), it has this commented out section for submission:
#submission inet n - y - - smtpd
# -o ...
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High I/O NFS writes causes system freeze
I have a very odd issue that I have not so far found a resolution for..
If I'm "streaming" content (download) from my NAS (via NFS) its fine (relatively low but consistent data).. but if I ...
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Unusual WordPress website activity from specific source
I need advice on the below apache logs from a website, which at the time was streaming 10 Mbps for 12 minutes. This has been happening for a few weeks and I do not understand what is going on.
Are ...
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How do I configure Postfix as the smart host
I have a postfix server configured to send mail to a smarthost. It is successfully authenticating with that smarthost which is another postfix server.
The receiving postfix servers has:
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docker-compose config not listing services
Recently, I have installed the latest version of Docker and Docker Compose from the official website on my Ubuntu machine. Upon using docker-compose config it gives me this output:
name: docker
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Migrating ancient Linux system to newer kernel
so I just began a new job as a IT System Engineer and we have a ancient Linux system with kernel version 2.4.21 running. The distro is United Linux 1.0 which was a project of some big players in Linux ...
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running nginx on google compute vm, port 80 blocked
I've been round and round with this for days and am making no progress.
I need help.
I have a Google Compute VM, assigned external ip 104.196.57.33 assoc with the domain dropin.today
dnschecker.org ...