Problem with name resolution - IPv6 queries are sent before IPv4.

2015-04-29 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi Everyone :) I have a quite annoying problem on several ubuntu 12.04 servers. I know that I should use ubuntu mailing list but I tried that with no success :) Maybe someone here will be able to help. When I force a dns query using: time wget --waitretry=1 http://xxx.yyy -O - I get (tcpdump &

Update only of security vulnerabilities?

2015-04-09 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi All :) Is usage of 1) # unattended-upgrade --dry-run command with proper configuration of /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades file the best choice for checking available security updates? Another options as I found are: 2) #apt-get -s dist-upgrade | grep "^Inst" | grep -i security" 3)

Resources/tools for server hardening?

2014-10-19 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi All :) What resources or tools do you use for server hardening/checking servers' security? I currently am checking Nessus, it looks good :) I found some info also about Bastille but it seems to be dead. Which other tools do you recommend? I am thinking about applying some common sense security

USB key accessible/seen remotely.

2014-06-09 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi All :) I have currently an USB key which is needed by some software on a remote server. Is there a way to use my local USB port (attach mentioned device to it) and share it with this remote server? BR, Rafal.

Software RAID10 - which two disks can fail?

2014-04-07 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi All. I have a server which uses RAID10 made of 4 partitions for / and boots from it. It looks like so: mdadm -D /dev/md1 /dev/md1: Version : 00.90 Creation Time : Mon Apr 27 09:25:05 2009 Raid Level : raid10 Array Size : 973827968 (928.71 GiB 997.20 GB) Used Dev Size : 48

mbox files - can they be "compacted"?

2014-04-06 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi All ;) Is there an option to compact large mbox files from the shell? I did not find anything in google, I have some very large constantly updated mbox files and would like to know if they can be made smaller with any tool. AFAIK mutt does such operation when for example an email is deleted but

LogScape as a Splunk alternative?

2014-01-13 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi All. I searched for a Splunk alternative and found LogScape. Have anyone worked with it? There is no documentation available only some very brief installation instructions and there is almost no information in google about successful deployments in linux environments. From my current perspectiv

SATA 3TB: unsupported sector size -1548812288.

2011-08-29 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi everyone. I hava a problem with Debian Lenny server: uname -a Linux xxx 2.6.18-4-686-bigmem #1 SMP Wed Feb 21 17:30:22 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux I connected two new disks to it: Seagate Constellation ES.2, 3.5'', 3TB, SATA/600, 7200RPM, 64MB BIOS sees them properly as 3TB drives, in shell I h

Debian update/upgrade good practices?

2011-05-18 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi all. I have a new LAN to administer, I have 8 Debian production servers which have been configured by someone else. I try to make a reasonable update/upgrade policy for those servers. Till now (for my home servers) I used aptitude update/upgrade and it was ok. But here every server has many ser

Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-05 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi All. I have installed Citrix XenServer. It's Linux-based virtualization software. Could anyone propose a good way to make backups of virtual machines (Linux/Windows) in it? With regards, R.

Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi All. I plan to use virtualization in my production environment. I plan to use one of the following options: - KVM; - VMWare Esxi; - VMWare Workstation. I plan to install Windows 2008 as a guest. I want to use something like LVM snapshots for backups. Stability is also very important, the guest

Out Of Range display problem on Lenny x64.

2009-11-18 Thread Rafał Radecki
I installed Lenny x64. After gdm's start I've got an error on my display: *OUT OF RANGE 90.0 kHz/60Hz * My default /etc/X11/xorg.conf is: *Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option

Issue with Maildir directories.

2009-04-28 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi all. I have a problem with my mail servers' web interface. On our previous mail server we used SquirrelMail, now we try to use RoundCube. But we have a problem because RoundCube doesn't see users' Maildir directories. Could anyone give me a clue why is it that? Standard folders like 'new' and 'c