Honeypot upgrades
Looks like I might have to modernize my PHP skills, to include more 'composer friendly' packages (grr). Home control panel working great so far.
VPS’s and Privacy
Privacy I am so getting tired of emails being blocked by Spamhaus-PBL. This is NOT an abuse list, yet email admins are using it as a 'blocklist'. I got no probs with SBL's and stuff.. but PBL?! I'm looking at you messagelabs.com (and any others that use it). I have…
Self coded honeypot is live for now
Picked up an interesting new scanner with a (possible troll) UA: "apache 0day by @hxmonsegur" coming from 185.130.5.224. Update: So far I've tested the 'exploit' against my Apache installation - doesn't appear to be doing anything. Update: Confirmed, it's fake.
Xen and CentOS7.2 (PV)
I always set up my CentOS VMs as PV mode (yes, I know PVHVM/etc) under FC23 host but this time it's not working. It is BROKEN. [ OK ] Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen. [ OK ] Reached target Paths. [ OK ] Reached target Basic System. Mounting Configuration File…
Mass update day
CentOS 7.2 is out, but took a day or two before it turned up on local mirror. Good thing I mirror everything, mass-updates of multi-VMs in progress. While I'm there, I'd upgrade Wordpress, and any other CMS's around. Busy day!
Solax SK-SU-5000 some details :)
I have been hunting information on this unit's management for (you guessed it) automation and fun charting like a good crazy sysadmin would do. I called up the local supplier which patched me through to a support guy (Nice guy!). 2 simple questions and 2 simple answers from him :)…
Finally some sysadmining :)
Been such a long time since I got a day to myself to FIX stuff * Tried to upgrade my old Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 on a laptop. Took all day and it's STILL trying to resolve the patches so that it is "up to date" for 8.1 upgrade.…
Xen 4.5.0/Fedora Core 22 – DO NOT UPDATE
Just a MAJOR warning that if you are running any servers with Xen-hypervisor. DO NOT UPGRADE to FC-22!! There is a bug with GCC 5 that the package is compiled with and when installed will FAIL TO BOOT. This will result in any server you run Xen on to NOT…
Uptime problems :)
Yes, Server died on Sunday. Scraped together and found that the old video card had shorted out the motherboard. After a bit of effort, was forced to upgrade the server hardware. At least now I'm running: * i7-4790 (non-K) * Asus-Z97 Deluxe * 32GB RAM (Yay! More virtualization) OS install…
Hardware issues + Upgrade
Popped capacitor caps on video cards are not good for motherboards. Desperate time to scrounge up some hardware I was forced to buy an (almost) complete system yesterday. * Asus Z97-Deluxe * 32GB RAM (G.skill-ARES) - Roar, the God of War lives in my machine.. * i7-4790 (non-K) for iommu…