Configuration guides for IT Administrators
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1. Install rsyslog (if not already installed) 2. Edit rsyslog Configuration Uncomment or add the following line to enable UDP reception: 3. Open Firewall Port (UDP 514) This saves the rules to /etc/sysconfig/iptables, if you receive error, install iptables-services 4. Restart services By default, rsyslog on Oracle Linux (and most RHEL-based systems) writes system log…
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1. List all users in Ubuntu cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd Explanation: cut : command-line utility that extracts sections from lines of a file or input -d: : delimiter as a colon (:) to separate fields -f1 : tells cut to extract field 1, which is username /etc/passwd : contains all user account information 2. Create new…
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Step 1: Install Maxmind Step 2: Prerequisite Step 3: Create system user Step 4: Install parsedmarc in a virtual directory Note: Ignore the installation error thrown for having incompatible version of urllib. Step 5: Configure parsedmarc.ini file [general] save_aggregate = True save_forensic = True [msgraph] auth_method = ClientSecret client_id = client_secret = tenant_id = mailbox…
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Linux command to list large files in a folder Linux command to truncate size of large files Replace with the desired size in bytes, kilobytes (K), megabytes (M), gigabytes (G), or terabytes (T), and with the name of the file you want to truncate. Example:truncate -s 800MB /var/log/user.log Note that this command will permanently delete…

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Ubuntu apt-get update shows Certificate verification failed: The certificate is NOT trusted. The certificate chain uses expired certificate. Could not handshake:

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Use timedatectl command to view and change time, date and timezone in Ubuntu

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Cloned Linux VM reports missing network interface card because of mismatch MAC address in cloned VM and the one assigned by VMware.

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