Sysadmin Mega Thread

mutation666 · August 6, 2019, 7:39pm

god dont put that on me the wife already wants a kid on the + side once this cert is done and school i get a break from extra stuff

Goalkeeper · August 6, 2019, 7:48pm

Adult Life is craaaazy. Barely anytime for yourself

sanfordvdev · August 6, 2019, 10:51pm

Don’t have a kid unless you have owned a dog first. Sort of similar except you can’t throw the kid outside when you are tired of dealing with it. Well you can just not for extended length of time and not monitoring it closely

mutation666 · August 6, 2019, 10:52pm

We have 2 cats, a dog was what I wanted but was fine waiting.

oO.o · August 6, 2019, 10:56pm

If we have one around the same time, you wanna time share them half the year?

SgtAwesomesauce · August 6, 2019, 10:57pm

Time Share your kids.

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Dynamic_Gravity · August 6, 2019, 11:39pm

Shit man we can barely take care of cats who mostly take care of themselves.

mutation666 · August 6, 2019, 11:42pm

$550 litter-robot is da wae

AnotherDev · August 7, 2019, 4:11pm

The absolute state of /r/sysadmin

Crying about Bible verses in email signatures.

Get the fuck over it

Jesus Christ (literally). It seems that section discusses anything but Systems Administration as of late.

mutation666 · August 7, 2019, 4:13pm

People read signature blocks beyond name?

SgtAwesomesauce · August 7, 2019, 4:15pm

Further reinforces my opinion that Reddit is nothing but anti-theist zealots. It’s one thing to be Atheist, and that’s fine but to throw a bitchfit whenever you see a bible verse as if it causes you physical pain?

A prayin’ man would ask if you need an exorcism.

AnotherDev · August 7, 2019, 4:19pm

I reported it. Fuck them. Their rules explicitly state no religious content.

Please try and keep politically and religiously charged messages out of discussions.

AnotherDev · August 7, 2019, 4:19pm

“It’s in the body right above the signature”

Ruffalo · August 7, 2019, 4:29pm

Which is worst?

Bible quotes in signature
Comic sans
Bottom-quoting
CCing everybody in the world “just FYI”
Any person guilty of any of the above offenses should be stood up against the wall and put down, two in the heart one in the head, execution-style

0 voters

deadAstr0naut · August 7, 2019, 4:29pm

Anyone have any good suggestions for a centralized logging server?

I’m looking for something that does syslog/Windows event log monitoring. Preferably something that is open source and easily maintainable.

This will primarily be used for networking equipment and Windows hosts. I’ve seen some suggest SolarWinds Kiwi, but that doesn’t seem to do analytics without Log Analyzer. I’ve also seen GrayLog and Splunk suggested a lot as well.

mutation666 · August 7, 2019, 4:30pm

RIP, but who cares, its a company not the government

mutation666 · August 7, 2019, 4:31pm

but it cost $$$

oO.o · August 7, 2019, 4:33pm

There was just a long thread about this. Let me find it.

Here:

Tool for Monitoring Linux Servers Logs and Access? Linux

The title is a bit generic, but ok. At work, i’m in charge of managing all of our customers Linux Servers. I’ve grown into this position over time and a lot of those Servers where not configured by me. Since attacks are ramping up and exploits get tested for ever faster (sometimes minutes after discovery) and a lot of those servers are, by design, accessible from the internet, i really want to step up my game in terms of keeping those things safe. Now, i don’t want to talk about security best practices here. I’m working to retrofit a lot of stuff on existing servers and have an extensive list of stuff i do on new servers to keep risk to a minimum. But this only goes so far. I’d really like to put a system in place, that monitors my Servers for certain security relevant stuff. I already maintain a Nagios System to watch for Resource usage and Services. This works as intended and makes sure the servers are up and healthy. A coworker installed Nagioslog Server a few months back, but the trial is expired and my company isn’t sure yet, wether to pay for the license. What i’d like to have is a tool that Reports any and all login attempts to a server (ssh, ftp etc.), maybe reports on installed versions of packages that are relevant (apache, nginx, php etc.) and maybe even alerts when there is a newer Version in place. Additionally i’d like to be able to log/monitor access to certain sub-sites. Say, the server has wordpress installed. In that case i’d like to see the amount of logins to server.com/wp-admin. What would you set up to manage all this stuff? I’m looking around for various options and am willing to test a lot of those. I have enough resources available to test a lot of stuff. I’d prefer something that offers at least a free tier or long’ish trial for testing purpose. Open-Source would be nice, but i’m not to picky if it gets the job done nicely. Anything you can recommend, or have personal experience with?

For me, Elk and Graylog were the most compelling options.

nx2l · August 7, 2019, 4:33pm

pepperidge farm remembers when snort (and nessus) was free

mutation666 · August 7, 2019, 4:34pm

I just wish they had free tier options (they might never looked into it)