I have recently become the defacto sysadmin for a number of Ubuntu machines, and it has become painfully obvious that I don't really know what I'm doing. Can you recommend resources for me to better understand how Linux works? Please note that I am not at all interested in this for its own sake, but only because I need to know this to be able to do the fun parts of my job. [more inside]
posted by Metasyntactic on Jul 4, 2011 - 12 answers

CareerFilter: Early thirties, 10+ years of Linux admin experience, how do I break into something different? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jun 13, 2011 - 7 answers

Have you ever seen a creative sysadmin resume? [more inside]
posted by pwnguin on Sep 2, 2010 - 14 answers

I've been a self proclaimed Linux/BSD expert for the past 8 years. I just got offered a job selling Windows-based solutions. What do I need to speed-read to make the switch? [more inside]
posted by felspar on Jun 5, 2010 - 2 answers

What are the best open source web-hosting control panels out there? Are there any that are feature-competitive with commercial products like cpanel or plesk? What are your experiences working with them? [more inside]
posted by jenkinsEar on Feb 24, 2010 - 1 answer

How can we automatically block DOS type attacks in a load balanced environment? We used to have mod_evasive on Apache, but now Apache is behind a a load balancer and so does not see the external IPs. We are manually blacklisting IPs in Shorewall - but would like something on the load balancer to do this automatically on detection. Running Linux, Shorewall, Apache and Pound as load balancer.
posted by Dag Maggot on Dec 9, 2008 - 7 answers

What were your greatest victories and punishing woes as a unix/linux system administrator? [more inside]
posted by Myles on Jul 21, 2008 - 11 answers

For UNIX-like systems (Linux, BSD, Solaris) is there a way to determine power supply type remotely, preferably with a simple command-line tool? [more inside]
posted by littlegreenlights on May 30, 2007 - 5 answers

I need help migrating to Linux from an "unlicensed" Windows 2000 Server? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Mar 30, 2006 - 6 answers