Those of you might not know, but for some years I worked at the National Archives of Australia working on, at the time, their leading digital preservation platform. It was awesome, opensource, and they paid me to hack on it. The most important parts of the platform was Xena and…
Hey world it’s been a while, turns out I’m not much of a blogger. But I know how useful for myself it is to do write-ups occasionally so I can actually find them later.. having said that. In my last post I mentioned I was an OpenStack Developer.. and it’s…
Hello world, It’s been a while since I have blogged on this site, I apologise for that. My previous position was a tad proprietary, so although I worked with Linux, what I was doing needs to be sanitised before I can post about it. I have a bunch of posts…
If you are using a 3rd party application / package installer to install a service onto a system that using chkconfig to manage your run-levels, or writing your own which are incompatible with chkconfig. That is to say when trying to add them you get the following error: # chkconfig…
In case anyone out there in internet land happen to have a BIND DNS server still running RHEL 4 or Centos 4 and require a version that has been back ported from the Centos 6.2 source, one that has the CVE-2012-1667 fix. Then you can download the RPMs I build…
Squid is one of the biggest and most used proxies on the interwebs. And generating reports from the access logs is already a done deal, there are many commercial and OSS apps that support the squid log format. But I found my self in a situation where I wanted stats…
Was just looking into a software RAID howto.. for no reason really, but kinda glad I did! When you set up software raid you want to make sure all disks are partitioned the same, right. so check this out: 3. Create partitions on /dev/sda identical to the partitions on /dev/sdb:…
Some old windows servers require authentication through the old NTLM protocol, luckily with the help from squid, samba and winbind we can do this under Linux. Some URLs a much of this information was gathered from are: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Authenticate/NtlmCentOS5 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Authenticate/Ntlm HOW TO In order to authenticate through winbind we will be…
Squid – Reverse Proxy In computer networks, a reverse proxy is a type of proxy server that retrieves resources on behalf of a client from one or more servers. These resources are then returned to the client as though it originated from the reverse proxy itself. While a forward proxy…
The maillog The maillog is easy enough to follow, but when you understand what all the delay and delays numbers mean then this may help really understand what is going on! A standard email entry in postfix looks like: Jan 10 10:00:00 testmtr postfix/smtp[20123]: 34A1B160852B: to=, relay=mx1.example.lan[1.2.3.4]:25, delay=0.49, delays=0.2/0/0.04/0.25, dsn=2.0.0,…