sysadmin

Resources for administering the Remote Servers that run all of Peck's back-end computing

General

• Unix Commands

Server administration

• Fail2ban: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-protect-ssh-with-fail2ban-on-ubuntu-12-04
• nginx ssl setup: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-ssl-certificate-on-nginx-for-ubuntu-12-04

Administering Users

• Editing the Sudoers file: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-edit-the-sudoers-file-on-ubuntu-and-centos
• permissions on unix: http://www.grymoire.com/unix/Permissions.html

Other

• Debugging Tool: http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=ba9c5a596f88fa86026dd89a2&id=01a7043a5b&e=35d9c2c5b6
• allows you to look at the stack trace of system calls for a process with strace