Roundtable May 2012

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8 participants
10 discussions

SpamAssassin false positives on DATE_IN_FUTURE_96_Q?
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

I mentioned this problem at the last round-table session, but didn't get a solution, so I thought I'd post it here, just in case anyone has any suggestions to offer. I'm still seeing a whole bunch of false positives in SpamAssassin, since an update was installed in mid-September on a CentOS 5.7 system, for a rule called DATE_IN_FUTURE_96_Q, which is only supposed to be triggered when the "Date:" header has a date that is 4 days to 4 month ahead of the date in the "Received" header that … [View More]

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USB Ethernet
by Brock Wolfe 20 May '12

20 May '12

I need to connect a remote PC ( no local network jack in room) to a wireless access point and was looking at USB network dongles. Any experiences/recommendations on using these devices. I've looked and some have external antennas which might help get a little extra range / signal strength that would be big plus. Brock

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Ubuntu Mirror WTF
by Robert Keizer 20 May '12

20 May '12

So I noticed that the default ca.archive.ubuntu.com mirrors were kind of slow.. so I did a quick little traceroute.. Anyone else notice a problem? I'm figuring that it is most likely also because of the time ( see last command ). -bash-4.1# traceroute 91.189.92.154 traceroute to 91.189.92.154 (91.189.92.154), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 * * * 2 rc1nr-tge0-8-2-0-11.wp.shawcable.net (64.59.176.131) 12.396 ms 18.5 ms 11.419 ms 3 rc2ec-tge0-8-1-0.il.shawcable.net (66.163.77.… [View More]

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weird md raid situation
by Trevor Cordes 14 May '12

14 May '12

I love linux software ("md") raid. I use md raid1 on a zillion systems. I never has issues. Until today... I get a call that a customer has lost all their emails for about a month and their apps' data appears to be old and/or missing. Strange. I login to the linux server and see: cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md122 : active raid1 sda1[0] 409536 blocks [2/1] [U_] md123 : active raid1 sda2[0] 5242816 blocks [2/1] [U_] md124 : active raid1 sda3[0] … [View More] 1939865536 blocks [2/1] [U_] md125 : active raid1 sdb1[1] 409536 blocks [2/1] [_U] md126 : active raid1 sdb2[1] 5242816 blocks [2/1] [_U] md127 : active raid1 sdb3[1] 1939865536 blocks [2/1] [_U] That's not correct. These systems should have 3 partitions, not 6. Ah, md has done some really goofball things with this pathological case. It's separated the raid into duplicates and assembled each separately! Woah! They said they had a accidental reboot today (kid hitting reset button). And it booted/rooted off the wrong schizo set (sda). There appears to have been a drive failure/kick a month ago: Apr 4 10:10:32 firewall kernel: [1443781.218260] md/raid1:md127: Disk failure on sda3, disabling device. Apr 4 10:10:32 firewall kernel: [1443781.218262] <1>md/raid1:md127: Operation continuing on 1 devices. And it hadn't rebooted since then, before today. It gets stranger... I rebooted the system trying to test a few recovery ideas (offsite) out. On the next reboot it came up using the good/current sdb drive for boot/root! Huh? It's like it's picking which one to use at random! It still shows 6 md arrays, but it's using the properly 3 this time. So is all this a bug? 1. Shouldn't the system have marked the sda as failed/bad PERMANENTLY so on next reboot it would ignore it. OK, I can understand that if it thought the whole drive was bad, it wouldn't be able to write to the sda superblock to survive the reboot. But couldn't it have written the info to sdb's superblock? If a system can't remember what has failed, then I don't see how this behaviour can be avoided. 2. Why did linux md bring up both sets of arrays? It can see they are the same array. Why on earth would it ever split them? That seems majorly screwy to me. Still, thank God it didn't try to start syncing the stale set to the good set! We had backups, but it's a pain to recover. In the end, just rebooting until luck gives us the current set was all it took. I'll head on-site to replace the bad disk and do a proper resync. I have had hardware RAID systems (ARAID99) in this exact situation go into a schizo state where the disks were unsynched yet both were being used for writes! The problems always seem to revolve around a disk going "soft" bad and then coming alive after reboot. [View Less]

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And I thought *I* was a geek...
by Adam Thompson 13 May '12

13 May '12

https://schemaverse.com/ If you ever need material to rebut the accusation that you’re the world’s biggest geek, you can at least say that *you* didn’t create an entire spacewar-type game implemented in PostgreSQL! -Adam Thompson athompso(a)athompso.net

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Load average under RHEL 6.x systems?
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 11 May '12

11 May '12

Howdy folks! I asked this at last night's meeting, as my "stumper of the month", but didn't get any solutions or leads. So, I thought I'd ask again here... After upgrading many of our systems, both workstations and servers, from CentOS 5.x to Scientific Linux 6.x, I'm seeing higher load averages on idle systems than I used to. Under EL5, loads would drop to zero and pretty much stay there most of the time for idles systems. Under EL6, the load might drop down to 0.1, but doesn't stay … [View More]

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Parallel man page
by Mike Pfaiffer 09 May '12

09 May '12

After tonights demo by Gilbert I decided to give parallel a try. I installed it on my Mint 10 (Linux) machine and my 10.6 Mac via Mac Ports. It works on the Mac and I haven't tried it under Linux yet. Anyhow I noticed the man pages are different. The Mac has a fuller man page than Linux. First impression... It does what I want but I need to tweak my scripts. Later Mike

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Sun StorageTek software?
by Kevin McGregor 08 May '12

08 May '12

We keep getting these emails every 6 hours here at work. Does anyone recognize them? I think they are coming from the Sun StorageTek management software running on this server which is no longer connected to any StorageTek device. We'd like to disable or uninstall the software, or at the very least, somehow stop the emails. Does anyone know where to look for the configuration of this software? I don't really want to grep every file on the system looking for matching strings... You requested … [View More]

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Celebrate Day Against DRM - Save 50% on all Ebooks & Videos. Today only.
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 04 May '12

04 May '12

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MUUG Meeting, May 8, 7:30pm -- ZFS
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 01 May '12

01 May '12

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, May 8. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: ZFS Edwin Amsler will talk about (and demonstrate, if all goes well) ZFS. ZFS is a filesystem originally developed at Sun Microsystems. It has numerous features and has a native port to Solaris, OpenSolaris, and FreeBSD; Non-official ports have been made to Linux and Mac OSX. Edwin will be focusing on the basic usage of the … [View More]

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Roundtable May 2012