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Posted onOctober 11, 2010Uncategorized

fail2ban time offset issues

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While trying to set up fail2ban, I found that even though my regex/logs matched up nothing was being banned/caught by fail2ban After a bit of…

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Posted onSeptember 13, 2010Uncategorized

MessageLabs Mail Filtering and Vague Errors

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450 Requested action aborted [7.2] 20412, please visit www.messagelabs.com/support for more details about this error message. It took a remarkably large amount of searching to…

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Posted onJune 21, 2010Uncategorized

VMWare ESX and a full SQL Server Database

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Hypothetical situation. You installed VMWare ESX, possibly upgraded from 3.5 to 4, went with the embedded SQL Server, and Many Years Later the VirtualCenter server…

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Posted onJune 7, 2010Uncategorized

Checking SSH Private Keys for Passphrases

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Imposing ridiculously over the top security policies? Want to make sure any SSH private keys on your jump-off/administration server have a passphrase? Don’t waste time…

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Posted onMay 19, 2010Uncategorized

LVM Stale NFS File Handles (Part 1)

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So, here’s an interesting issue (initramfs) mount rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) none on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec)…

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Posted onMay 13, 2010Uncategorized

Bitlbee -> Facebook rename script update

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If you’ve recently noticed that your renamed users in bitlbee have changed back to UIDs, it’s probably because Facebook have changed their UID string from…

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Posted onMay 13, 2010Uncategorized

Bitlbee -> Facebook rename script update

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If you’ve recently noticed that your renamed users in bitlbee have changed back to UIDs, it’s probably because Facebook have changed their UID string from…

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Posted onMay 12, 2010Uncategorized

MegaRaid Lies

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Dell PowerEdge 1850. I’ve never seen it in the flesh, but believe it has a MegaRAID card. # lsscsi [0:0:6:0] process PE/PV 1×2 SCSI BP…

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