linux – ~FaerieCX~

Metatrader 5 on Fedora Linux

25/12/202225/12/2022 by The Elflord

The Elflord

I do work on a bit of crypto trading and thought I'd look at MT5 as an option for a front end for possible extra trading. The official site gives a script to install MT5 via wine. I figured I'd brek down the Fedora version of that. This is done…

Linux Quicktips: AlmaLinux 9 + Google Authenticator

22/11/202223/11/2022 by The Elflord

The Elflord

Basically this adds 2FA to your SSH login to foil all those brute forcers. Install "qrencode" and "qrencode-libs" are optional to display that upon config generation. Added for completeness. # dnf -y install epel-release # dnf -y install google-athenticator qrencode qrencode-libs Configuration Fresh install # google-authenticator -t > -1 (skip…

CloudLinux 7 issues with cPanel Updates

05/09/2019 by The Elflord

The Elflord

Yesterday was dominated by the fact that CloudLinux had released a bad iproutes package which was incompatible with the older kernels. They went through and fixed that one pretty quickly. However the new kernel is still broken (under Xen). Luckily the new iproute package (.cloudlinux.1) appears to have resolved it…

Reinventing DevOps/SysAdmin (Intro)

04/10/2018 by The Elflord

The Elflord

The term "DevOps" have been thrown around for years. Initially just a fad (and still sort of is, as a "terminology"), it is pretty much summarized to me as System Administrator, with a lot of provisioning automation specialist stuff. The System Administrator (now "Systems Engineer") is mainly a maintainer role…

Changing servers again

13/07/2017 by The Elflord

The Elflord

It's sad to keep switching server due to hardware failures - even on the cloud. I've moved it back to a private server (slow bandwidth) for a short while - back to the cloud again now. Expecting more migrations to happen in the next few days. Mail was up, now…

Migrating to Cloud

06/08/2016 by The Elflord

The Elflord

Yes, a lot of disruptions. After lamenting over the state of the Australian NBN (Fraudband) - and realizing it would take 4 days to just copy my mailserver up, I've decided to drag it all to a hard disk and bring it to somewhere where I can upload 10x the…

Faerie.CX goes back to the Cloud

05/08/2016 by The Elflord

The Elflord

Yes, I broke down on costs and stuff - and decided to get a hosted server :) Cost me a mint, but still a good deal from my old folks I used to work for (Web24). Too bad for our backwater Australian Internet (read:ADSL2+) for the really slow uploads. Having…

Quick roundup for Mar-Apr

15/04/2016 by The Elflord

The Elflord

Packages of note in the Internet worlds: pfSense (2.3 release) Runs off Bootstrap front end now, FreeBSD to 10.3 base. Looks very 'slick'. I did break the upgrade, cos the 'RX-offload' bug with Xen still exists in this release. Has to be turned off from the host. Code snippet given…

Self coded honeypot is live for now

04/01/2016 by The Elflord

The Elflord

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)

18/12/2015 by The Elflord

The Elflord

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…

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