CloudLinux 7 issues with cPanel Updates

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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…
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Reinventing DevOps/SysAdmin (Intro)

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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…
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Migrating to Cloud

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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…
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Quick roundup for Mar-Apr

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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…
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VPS’s and Privacy

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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…
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Xen and CentOS7.2 (PV)

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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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Project revivals

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Been a while since I was inspired on the tech front but now that I got a job I can afford side projects again. Looking at: * Raspberry Pi 2 * Solar Raspberry Pi 2 * Xen? * Learning Puppet * Using it to deploy new VMs. * Getting iSCSI…
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