sysadmin

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Aug 8, 2017

Sysadmin pet peeve - don't use root!

Sysadmin pet peeve - don't use root!

There are people (I was one of them) who just use root account on servers for managing them, deploying apps and also share this single account with other sysadmins and even with developers.

Jan 18, 2016

Enable swap on DigitalOcean instances

Enable swap on DigitalOcean instances

Just a quick summary of DigitalOcean article on enabling swap: dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=4096k chmod 600 /swapfile mkswap /swapfile swapon /swapfile And now add swapon /swapfile to

Dec 9, 2015

Install Monitorix on Debian

Install Monitorix on Debian

Monitorix is not part of official Debian repos, so you need to add Monitorix to apt sources.list. Official documentation for installing Monitorix on Debian is quite good, but you need to check