I have two sites hosting my home servers so I wanted a solution to have a permanent link between the sites. On site one I have an EdgeRouter POE and on the other site an EdgeRouter Lite and the obvious solution is to have a site to site VPN on a permanent basis. There is… Read More »
After an OwnCloud upgrade I was getting complains from my users that WebDav and OwnCloud windows client were no longer able to upload files. By looking into owncloud.log the following was the repeated error: {“app”:”remote”,”message”:”An exception occurred while executing ‘SELECT * FROM `oc_locks` WHERE `userid` = ? AND (`created` + `timeout`) > 1456517102 AND ((… Read More »
On my servers I want to completely get read of graphical boot. I do not like fancy graphics that are not compatible with my basic Matrox integrated card and I do not want my system to start directly in X and load the server with unwanted stuff. STEP 1: Remove graphical boot Completely un-install the… Read More »
I had a situation when from a strange reason a default grub setup as a result of a system recovery was missing the lvm and raid modules so I was not able to boot. I have the following setup on the server: – my boot partition is in fact an ext4 partition over a mdraid… Read More »
There are times when even experimented sysadmins do stupid things. One of that moments happened to me when I tried some speed tests on my ssd RAID1. The result was not so satisfactory. Corrupted /boot partition with missing files and orphan inodes. To make things more complicated I have the following constraints that make this… Read More »
Keeping the installation of your own WordPress blog highly secure is very important. In today’s fast pace discovery of security vulnerabilities you must keep an eye on all the new security threats and update as soon as possible the security to try to cover the new threat. An invaluable tool is the security test from… Read More »
As I mentioned in a previous post I started looking into upgrading my Dell XPS 8700 see https://blog.voina.org/?p=325. One of the possibilities I mentioned there was a memory upgrade from the 16GB of the original configuration to the maximum of 32GB. By doubling the memory size I can run a 4th instance of my Fedora… Read More »
Red Hat Enterprise Linux allows administrators to bind multiple network interfaces together into a single channel using the bonding kernel module and a special network interface called a channel bonding interface. Channel bonding enables two or more network interfaces to act as one, simultaneously increasing the bandwidth and providing redundancy. The behaviour of the bonded… Read More »
My desktop Dell XPS 8700 is a beast even after more than 2 years of the official release. The problem with it is that in a typical big corporate fashion it contains an unbalanced set of hardware: * A very fast processor * 16GB of memory (4x4GB so not so up-gradable to the 32GB maximum)… Read More »
As a big fan of the HP Microserver Gen8 (I own 3 of them in two locations) I compiled my own list of compatible hardware that I am using or used in building the servers.I have to thank the good fan forums that I always consult previous of buying new hardware for my HP Microservers… Read More »