If you read our previous article Easy Debian Server Firewall, then you may have noted that on Debian Jessie the described method no longer works. This is due to systemd. In the article below we will walk through creating a persistent IPTables based firewall on Debian Jessie. First we need to install some required software… Read More
If you have ever used Ubuntu Server then you should be familiar with the dynamic MOTD. This is what is presented to the user in terminal when a log on occurs. This feature is very nice as it will give you a quick look at useful information. Unfortunately, Debian Server does not include the dynamic… Read More
Over the past few weeks while working with client servers running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, we noticed that the Dynamic MOTD system seems to be outdated when logging in via ssh. While this is a minor annoyance, it needed to be fixed. After a quick Google search, we came across this source which explains how to… Read More
I like to call the method below “The Easy Debian Server Firewall”. You may ask why I call it easy. The answer is simple, it uses standard IPTable’s and has a start and stop script to quickly disable it in the event that debugging is required. Installing the firewall is a simple two stage process…. Read More
It seems to have been a long time since I’ve needed to setup remote logging. Our previous article Remote Logging for Mailgraph was based on Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS, however since that time a few things have changed. So once again we will be setting up remote logging for mailgraph but now on Debian Server…. Read More
With Samba4 becoming more relevant everyday as a drop in replacement for AD, I am regularly fielding questions regarding password management. Below I will describe the basics of password management in Samba4 using the samba-tool. The following code shows the commands dealing with passwords and account expiration. #Disable password expiration for the Administrator account. samba-tool… Read More
If you are running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Servers, you may have found over the last week that the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Release is now being offered. That message is a part of the “Message Of The Day” (MOTD) system. If you have a system that will not be updated, below we will outline the steps… Read More
Previously I wrote and article detailing how to Monitor HP RAID Array on Debian, unfortunately since that writing I have found a fatal flaw in it’s methodology. While our automated monitoring system using cciss-vol-status will in fact report a failed drive/array, it’s flaw lies in not reporting a predictive drive failure. The hpacucli tool is… Read More
As of late it seems as if everyone is jumping on the MariaDB Database bandwagon. In this article I will provide a bash automation script as well as detail it’s usage in order to ease the MySQL Server to MariaDB Server migration. The script is broken down into four stages. Below I will break down… Read More
If you read my previous article detailing how to Install HP ACU CLI on Debian, then your next logical question might be, how do I monitor the RAID array. Searching the net will yield a multitude of solutions however, we are fan’s of simple small footprint solutions, so that is the approach we will take…. Read More