> xenbr0: received packet on mb0 with own address as source address
What's the best way of tracking down the cause of kernel messages like the
above?
As an aside it's a pity that the kernel doesn't log the source address in
question and whether it's IPv4 or IPv6.
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As mentioned in a previous message (which many people on the list probably
didn't get) I've just moved the LUV server to a VM in Germany courtesy of Paul
Menzel who pays the rent on the physical hardware.
We had a few problems along the way with DNS records not updating when I
wanted them to and with the wrong IP address being used for outbound mail -
which caused some servers to correctly reject mail on the basis of bad SPF.
DNS is now correct and has been correct for long enough that I expect most
systems won't have old addresses cached any more (Google DNS has had the new
values for a while).
Andrew has started the process of gaining control over the DNS (which is
registered in the names of people who haven't been committee members for a
long time). We need to get that done before VPAC turns things off. My current
plan is to use 2 servers that I run for LUV DNS secondaries. I've been a LUV
member for 20 years and both the servers in question have been running for
that long (one of them hasn't even changed it's IP address). I think that
will give some assurance that things will keep working.
As an aside if anyone knows how to contact the people running
russell.linux.org.au and the creativecontingencies.com DNS servers about
changing the entries for LUV then please let me know off-list.
When running at VPAC the watchdog table in the Drupal database took up 20G of
disk space and as it was in the ibdata1 file there was no good option for
freeing the space even after deleting most rows. As part of the migration to
the new server I dumped all MySQL databases and imported them. That solved
the disk space problem and as I now have MySQL configured for a file per InnoDB
table I will always be able to OPTIMIZE TABLE if I have that happen again.
echo "delete from watchdog where timestamp < unix_timestamp() - 604800;" |
mysql luv_drupal
The above command is in a cron job to delete the old entries from the watchdog
table. It would be good if we could fix the Drupal problem that's causing
those entries (but I don't know how to do it or have time to learn). It would
also be good if we could configure Drupal to not store millions of rows in that
table (it's supposed to automatically delete old rows but doesn't).
Assistance from Drupal experts is welcome.
One thing I want to do is to convert the server to BTRFS. BTRFS snapshots is
the best way of backing things up. Going forward I want to have much better
backups of the server. The fact that I can't visit the server room any more
makes them much more important as does the fact that data is crossing
jurisdictions.
I will resend this message tomorrow to make sure everyone gets it.
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Hi there,
I am looking at options for backup storage. From reviewing prices
storage is quite cheap but I get confused by the mix-'n-match nature of
some of the cloud offerings. The alternative is to spin up a VM with out
current providers but then cost per GB is large and there are some
limits on the VM disk size.
I have tried implementations (fuse I believe) of mounting a bucket and
using rsync to copy data to is but it was slow and all files and whole
files were transferred instead of the changes only - which killed the
cost of the exercise because of bandwidth.
From a cost / reliability POV I would like to go with a large provider
and I would like to avoid spinning up a new VM if a direct rsync service
is available.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Piers
Hi all,
I am about to install Snipe-IT as an asset management system.
The install script would like to enable the IUS community repository.
Do you have experience with it? I would like to know about the availability
of security updates. How fast can you get an update?
Snipe-IT wants to have PHP 5.6 and a few other things from it. I see 5.6.18
packages (the latest 5.6 version available) - so that's a good sign, I
think.
Using it seems to be the way of least resistance.
Although the website states minimal requirements which are fulfilled
without the IUS community repository, e.g. PHP 5.4.
Any experience and recommendation?
Thank you
Peter
I had no idea this would be necessary, but this morning I purchased an
Epson MFP, an XP 432. I made this choice because I expected that Epson,
which started strong with Linux would still be doing so. But .... no
drivers. I searched the CD for a PPD. No luck! So in the back of my mind I
heard a quiet memory echo, ndis wrapper. Is that still a viable process?
And is it complex? How would I get it to work with the scanner?
Gratefully and hopefully
Andrew Greig
Hi ,
I am trying to return a WD Elements HDD to a contiguous state, it had a
Fat32 and an EXT2 partition, having deleted the 2 partitions to start again
Here is what I have in parted:
Model: WD 1600BEV External (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 160GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
This disk should be around 850Gb
How do I overcome this difficulty, please?
Andrew Greig
I have some files with this structure, below is in hex.
00 6D 00 61 00 64 00 61 00 6D 00 65 00 3F 00 27 00 20 00 0A
It is ascii characters each preceded by a blank, I would like some way to
remove all the odd characters, ie all the 00. so in the above case it will
end up..............
6D 61 64 61 6D 65 3F 27 20 0A (madame?"sp""lf")
Lindsay
Hi All,
I believed the stuff on the OpenSUSE website, so I decided to run the
Tumbleweed upgrade of my OpenSuse 13.1 distro. Followed the
recommendations that it be fully updated prior to the upgrade, and then
started. The process was incredibly long, but eventually I was
presented with a highly coloured KDE screen. After I loaded the panel
with necessary apps I tried to do some work, but something was wrong.
Dolphin was a dog (or a hog) Create New>Folder took 45 seconds to
present the dialogue box. Trying to close an app would take the same
amount of time. I had read a good review of an RPMbased distro called
ROSA, so I created a USB image to install it. The installation crashed
at the "load software " stage with an error message quoting an rsync
failure. My dreams of a fast KDE desktop evaporated. More work needed,
so I dropped the OpenSUSE 13.2 DVD in the slot - where things were going
well until the partitioning stage, where, because a GPT partition table
had been built by the Russians(ROSA) I could\d do nothing with it.
Dirty shut down, and then select the Rescue section of the install
disk, and using parted I was able to remove the partitions by number.
Parted picked up the problem with the GPT setup. I obviously answered
the question correctly because on the next boot up with the Install disk
everything was clean. 13.2 is installing now, so far so good.
(Interval of 30 minutes)
I now have a functioning system again.
Maybe I will wait a little while before attempting Rosa again.
Qusestion: Why would Rosa create a partition of One Kilobyte?
Andrew Greig
