Question by m: What’s the best way to practice to become a Linux server admin?
Sorry for the dumba** question, but here’s the situation.
Every job I’ve had, we’ve worked w/ a unix server set up w/ some distro of Linux. For the most part, I’ve just found myself interacting w/ the server through a terminal launched in a Windows desktop.
I haven’t had admin priviliges for the server; just basic priviliges to get in, get what I need, write what I need to, and get out.
Having not yet been put in a position to shadow the server admin, and facing experience requirements to get the position that I need to get that experience, I’m in a bind.

In the past, when doing client-server apps, I’ve just done little server applications and client applications on the same machine.
I haven’t run a server OS before, so I don’t really know how to go about looping it back to possibly act as both server and client on the same machine. This would be preferable. Alternately, I could set up a tiny, 2-3 comp at home LAN and work through that, if absolutely necessary.
For all intents and purposes, I’m a complete server admin newbie.
Any self-taught Linux server admins who managed w/o shadowing anyone or specific training classes out there? How did you do it? Thanks

Best answer:

Answer by RAVEN
The easiest way is to install Linux on a home system, learn Linux and Linux Admin from an online training source (Lynda.com, e.g.) then use what you learn on your own system. You won’t find anyone that’s willing to let you use their system for guinea pig testing, so your best option is to use the one person who won’t object – you.

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Question by Tauseef Akram: Exchange 2003 Server down?
Now days I am suffering with a problem in Exchange, that is that all the clients(outlook) show disconnected almost every morning, and nobody is able to use the e-mail. After restarting the server it is fine but this has to be done every day.

Server Name: ST32S001

OS: Windows Server 2003 SP2

Mail Server : Exchange 2033 SP2

Domain Name: yanbu.site

Action already taken to resolve the problem:

1. Check the system connectivity continuously 5 to 10 minutes with server with ping (-t) command, but not single time found “request timed out”. Connectivity is fine.

2. Checked the exchange services, found all the exchange services in running state, but when I try to restart the services it couldn’t restart and gives the error message “ Error 1053: The service did not respond to start the control request in timely fashion”, The service then goes to “stopping” state, then no any other option accept to restart the machine and after restart the machine every thing works fine whole day, till next morning.

3. When I check about this error from Microsoft, Microsoft said this error occur due to .Net framework, and found a patch for .Net framework but after installation of this patch same problem exists…

Event Log Errors:

1.

Event ID: 2102, 2103, 2104

Category: Topology

Source: MSExchangeDSAccess

Description: in General for these Events, All the Domain servers and Global Catalog Servers are not responding

2.

Event ID: 7200

Category: General

Source: MSExchangeIS Mailbox

Description: Background thread FDoBuildCatalog halted on database “first storage group\mailbox store (st32s001)” due to error Code

0×80004005

3.

Event ID: 8026

Category: LDAP Operation

Source: MSExchangeAL

Description: LDAP bind was unsuccessful on directory St32s001.yanbu.site for Distinguish name, Directory returned error (0×15)

Server down…

The problem seems to be active directory related as the sequence of events in the event log shows.

Best answer:

Answer by Tofu
Depend on your hardware, I would suggest first take an image backup of your server to an external device, if its a non-raid server (which is not a good idea), or it uses basic ICH7/8 Raid functions, you could get away with a cheap image backup software.

Then I would suggest the following :
Scan your computer for virus/trojans
Repair your mailboxes
Check if your ES2003 has exceed the storage limits

Sound like something is corrupted.

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Question by cagurlsrule212121: apache is giving me some problems where its not letting me connect to the server can anyone help me step by…
step

(OS 10048) Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network/address/port) is normally permitted. :make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down, unable to open logs

In summary, I have a Windows machine running Windows XP Pro SP2 that has 2 Web Servers installed on it. The first one is Apache which I did not install and was assigned to ip address, xxx.xxx.xxx.74. For another project that my client has going, the WebCrossing Web Server was installed and assigned to ip address, xxx.xxx.xxx.78. If I type in the ip address for the WebCrossing Web Server, I get the correct website. If I type in the ip address for the Apache Server I get the Page is Under Construction Message which appears to be in the default c:\inetpub\wwwroot directory which leads me to believe that MS IIS is started. However, when I issue the iisrestart /stop command and go to the ip address for the Apache Server I still get the Page is Under Construc

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Answer by the sexest girl kekei
i dont no

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Question by aac_flash: how can i migrate a linux server (apache, mysql, bind, squid, postfix, etc) for a new machine?
I want to migrate my linux server from an old machine to a new one. This server runs many services as mail, ftp, dns, proxy, database, web server, etc. It’s an Ubuntu server 6.01 in both pcs, with grub. In the new machine i’m using RAID 1 by software with /boot – / – /var – swap. The old one has no RAID. Could i use RSync to do the job. I tried before by making a tar file with all my partitions and extract it in the new machine using an nfs share but the new machine can’t boot after this. Any ideas?

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Answer by Joe M
My suggestion would be to either put the old drive containing your linux partition into a USB external HDD box and plug it into the new machine, or temporarily put an IDE controller into the new machine alongside the RAID and then use a utility like norton ghost to copy it onto a partition on your new raid drive.

Good luck.

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Question by S.Eras: Is one machine will have more than one port80 bind to the web server to handle all the user request?
If only one port80 bind to web server, how it manage to handle all the customer request?

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Answer by Yoi_55
The default HTTP port is 80, any request coming on that port will be forwarded to whatever computer you have it forwarded to.

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