Earlier this week someone did something very bad, and it got me thinking about what are some of the simple things that make someone an effective Linux admin. While I will not tell you that following my advice will make…
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FAIL: Why you should ALWAYS use visudo
It’s time for a short rant about proper Linux administration. Someone, who shall not be named, manually edited the /etc/sudoers file and broke it on a critical server. In case you don’t know, on Linux sudo allows you to run…
Tweaking Nagios For Performance
The company I work for has about 3,000 servers that need to be monitored in our Dallas datacenter. For the past few years we’ve been using a fairly standard Nagios setup. If you don’t take the time to really learn…
Birth of a Monster
Sometimes I like to stay late at work, I’ve got a nice desk, a decent computer, and a mini-fridge full of drinks right behind me. So even after I’m off work, I sometimes stay up here and work on side…
Terrorists Don’t Use Google Maps
A while back, we got an e-mail from a customer who was concerned that terrorists might be using her site to plan an attack on the space shuttle. Please note, this is a real ticket that was submitted to our…