Author Archives: mark
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
Working on a new CentOS7 system and no nrpe packages (solved)
Looks like CentOS7 has made a move closer to the RedHat distribution. On existing CentOS7 systems I had build quite a while ago I installed nrpe and nagios-plugins-all from the base repository, but they are no longer available there. The … Continue reading
Laziness in accessing instances in my home OpenStack lab
I covered in an earlier post how to setup ssh as a proxy on a gateway server to access instances via that proxy, but as that would always connect to servers using my userid regardless of what external user connected … Continue reading