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Entries from January 2008

Fail2Ban script to verify configuration

January 11th, 2008 4:09 am · No Comments

From the comments in the script:
“Created this script after I had several misconfigurations across many servers - this will
use values from the config files for testing - a wrapper for fail2ban-regex and eliminating
late-night, low-on-caffeine human errors in testing your config. Could also be used: after an
update to verify the configuration, run weekly cron, create [...]

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Tags: Linux

How to mess up your Xen guest (make it nearly useless)

January 8th, 2008 4:27 am · 3 Comments

I made some changes to a VBD based Xen server - here’s what not to do:

Use a password in the httpd cert - if I ran xm console server I did not see that prompt - needed to use the vnc/gui to see this - entered it and got closer
Spaces in device names using system-config-network [...]

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Tags: Linux · Xen