Author Archives: mark
Mirroring up two spare internal disks under Fedora29
Having had to rebuild another machine, After it was up and running I had a server with the OS installed on the boot disk and two spare internal disks that used to be in a raid array. While the machine … Continue reading
Interesting issue with creating CentOS7 KVM machines on the F29 OS
The interesting this is that is seems specific to the CentOS7 install media, and the issue is the intsaller cannot detect VIRTIO disks. My OS is Fedora 29 fully patched, the CentOS7 install media I was using is CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1503-01.iso When … Continue reading
OwnCloud server on Fedora 29, hmm
I used to run OwnCloud on Fedora, and have finally been able to get it working again now. The environment is a Fedora29 server running apache. The main issue is… you cannot get the owncloud server running using the packages … Continue reading
F29 and file indexers, how many is too many ?
I use my own home grown monitoring tools on my servers and they picked up something interesting. One of the checks my tools run is to look for processes that are growing in memory size, or are using more memory … Continue reading
Openstack Queens, my latest install from RDO
This post is based on the “queens” release of OpenStack available from the RDO distribution site. It is based upon the documentation available at https://www.rdoproject.org/install/packstack/, but modified to install the services I wish to play with which are not installed … Continue reading
The Jan/Feb updates to Fedora 27 really broke VMs
My specific environment is that the VM machines I am having issues with are all CentOS7 or Fedora27 VM guests running on Fedora27 host machines and all are managed by virsh. I now have a novel and very irritating problem … Continue reading
New Fedora quirks, SAR and the logger program
SAR Noticed SAR had not been collecting statistics for a while, looks like it actually stopped around the time I upgraded to F26 rather than being a F27 issue. Systemctl showed the sysstat.service was running, just not producing any data. … Continue reading
Interception of Skype calls ?
Interesting article on the register about Microsoft being fined for not being able to intercept skype calls back in 2012. Microsofts appeal failed and the fine stands. The reason that Microsoft was unable to intercept the skype calls for the … Continue reading
Upgrade to Fedora27 issues so far
These are the issues I had personally, as every user has a different setup your distance may vary :-). They are covered in detail below. Desktop upgrade does not work, no big deal (workaround works) Network manager misbehaves (unsolved) Bacula … Continue reading
Hackers are getting annoying
My web logs show quite a few sites are now appending the below string to GET query requests that take parameters, the string below has been appended to quite a few requests to my website by multiple ip-addresses. or (1,2)=(select*from(select … Continue reading