Hello!

I wanted to reach out to the community as I just got laid off at my job as a Windows/VMWare system admin. I currently have an opportunity to take on a role as a Linux/Xen admin but the company is reluctant to hire me as it has been about 7 years since I was heavily engulfed in the *NIX world. They are bringing me in for a technical interview next week to see how I measure up. Until then, I really want to sharpen my skills, and so am looking for a project to work on that'll give me all the basics and some advanced knowledge to bring it all back to me.

Any suggestions on a project(s) are welcome!

Antoni

Just took my VMware VCA exam and got certified!

Since the company that I interviewed with is running Zabbix, maybe I should try that.

Thanks everybody for these fantastic ideas!

Looking at getting my AWS certs but wondering which is the most sought after. Google didn't give me much to go on, so I figured I'd ask the community.

Antoni

Good morning... Off to finish this Zabbix server

Linux 4.5 was released yesterday with alot of minor but sweet goodies

http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.5

Absolutely ridiculous.

I'm enjoying a croissant and an espresso at a cafe, after being stood up by Amazon for my technical phone interview I think big companies need to understand that EVERYONE'S time is valuable, not only their's.

So glad to live in Canada where we don't have to deal with the complexities of the healthcare system. Almost everything is taken care of.

@MattSpeller Thanks for the kind words! Yeah at my last job, I used to wear a bowtie every Wednesday (bowtie wednesday) to spice things up in the dep't. This next opportunity should be killer!

Just started studying on Linux Academy to help me with my AWS SysOps Administrator certification. Really in depth stuff!

Hey guys,

I've been building a Zabbix monitoring server this week, and was just about to install MariaDB for it's backend database (not for the front end). Was wondering if it would be better to install it as a db user or as an admin on the box?

Antoni

@scottalanmiller Crappy. I hate it when my kids are sick Tylenol to the rescue!

I am currently installing Zabbix on Linux and have installed all the necessary apps before installing Zabbix itself and have run into a dependency issue that won't allow me to install the zabbix database. The error is as shown below:

Error: Package: zabbix-server-mysql-2.4.7-1.el6.x86_64 (zabbix)
Requires: libnetsnmp.so.20()(64bit)

Not sure what to do here as my research on Google didn't bring up anything on libnetsnmp.so.20.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Antoni

@scottalanmiller I've installed 2.4 and the installation was done last week... Guess I'll start over Keep you posted.

I am in the midst of building a Zabbix monitoring system and have run into an issue with the install.

Since I wanted to separate the database form the actual site, there were no installation instructions. I followed the instructions to a tee, I just did the database install on a different server. Now, I can login to the database from the Zabbix server without any issues, but when it came to the initial Zabbix webpage setup (//localhost/zabbix) it can't see the database.

I have checked the user, permissions, etc... Not sure what I have done wrong or if anyone out there has done a similar install but am officially stuck.

Antoni

Looking to do an automation script to install an Nginx web server for a job interview and was curious how I should do it to really impress the employer. Thoughts?

I am currently writing a script to automate the process of installation and configuration of an Nginx web server. What I'd like to do is add variables where anyone can change the IP address and hostname to what they would like to. I am by no means a scripting expert and it's been a while since I had to write a script. I am looking how to do this in bash.

I wouldn't say "blazing", but it got alot faster since I moved away from Bell Right now I am on a 100/10 connection.

Gonna be participating in a trueability test coming up and was wondering what to expect. Has anyone had any experience with this?