Category Archives: Unix
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
The puppet downloadable VM tutorial
The puppet VM tutorial environment is available from https://puppet.com/download-learning-vm as an OVA file for VMWare or VirtualBox. The good news, once the disk image is extracted from the .ova file and converted from vmdk to qcow2 using qemu-img the resulting … Continue reading
Why do people use VMWare ?. It is a pain.
I actually purchased a license for VMWare Workstation when I was on Fedora21 as I needed it for a training course. Worked fine. Looks like the next time I tried to use I was on Fedora23 as I managed to … Continue reading
Puppetserver – my new interest
Why is the title puppetserver instead of puppet you ask, simply because as I am starting with puppet from scratch I have no interest in learning how to use the old “puppet-master” setup but will concentrate on the new puppetserver … Continue reading
Now whats up with Nagios these days ?
This post was going to be simply about how the only issue I had from upgrading all my core servers to F26 had no issues other than nagios. The title has been updated and the topic slightly changed due to … Continue reading
Decided to finally have a look at “puppet”.
When I initially had issues with Puppet I also looked at “Chef” but my issues with Chef were that it needs a damn site more resources to run plus to download the main chef server component you have to go … Continue reading
OpenStack Ocata install from the RDO repositories
Why a fresh install instead of an upgrade ? I gave up on trying to upgrade from Newton to Ocata using the RDO repositories. The upgrade instructions have now been updated for the Ocata release in the RDO documentation web … Continue reading
Using LUKS to create an encrypted disk file
It has been a while since I posted about the wonderful LUKS encryption tool. I’m sure all Linux users have encrypted disks and I have already posted about using it to encrypt external devices (all my external disks and USB … Continue reading