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Often times in the heat of a critical server restart the system decides to FSCK a very large filesystem. If I let it take its natural course it could be a day before its back (for 12TB file systems using ext3). So to stop it from fscking follow this procedure. 1) Restart system 2) When [...]
In an effort to provide a more secure way to access our network equipment in the event of an outage we setup a console server. We didnt purchase anything from a vendor but built a Cisco Console server. There is little documentation for creating this online so I am going to go through the steps of [...]
Recently our Sr. Director of IT sent out a Calendar invite to the team for meetings to plan our major project. He sent this meeting to a few select developers and the Operations group. But when he sent to the Operations group, he didn’t expand the group and add each user. He added the Security [...]