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What are you using this server for?

Use dig?

Some interesting comments coming out of there: Ask the world's most famous kernel developer what he thinks of the virtualization wars going on the Linux community between KVM and Xen and you'll hear a condemnation (of a sort) of them both. "I'm not a virtualization kind of guy. I think...

+1 Ironport

http://www.google.com/postini/compare.html

You could always setup a micro linux server on Amazon EC2 and send a request to remove the email sending limitations. You get the first year free to try it out.

You can limit by IP to the share either globally or on a share basis. For example, to allow only the 192.168.0.0/24 network access to my 'stuff' folder this would do it: [stuff] path = /stuff writable = yes hosts allow = 192.168.0. I wouldn't recommend using /etc/hosts.allow for...

# yum install system-config-firewall # yum install policycoreutils-gui That will install a user friendly front end for both iptables and selinux. SELinux has a bit of a learning curve but isn't that hard to grasp. As for enabling selinux and locking everything down, that's fine but...

I wasn't aware of these for VMWare, I'll have to look into them. Thanks :)

Honestly these tests are a joke. I would say 90% of people cram for these multiple choice obscure questions and forget the material (because most of it isn't practical) within the next 3 months of passing the test. The only true IT certifications worth merit are hands on, know your shit or...

Use caution: $ nice -n -19 dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null bs=8192

Yes this can be done. Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-on_sentence

# cp /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1 # vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1 DEVICE=eth0:1 <--- change to IPADDR=<enter second ip> NETMASK=<your netmask> GATEWAY=<your gateway> ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=static #...

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/BackupPCServerStatus.html

We have been using Kerio (http://www.kerio.com/connect) for about 2 years in our production environment and it's as stable as can be. It integrates with Active Directory easily and supports our 150+ user base easily, plus the cost is minimal compared to Exchange. Checking the server that...