Hi,
I am a (delighted!) relatively new BF user and run two dozen websites under Centos and Virtualmin, with no email as I keep email off my webserver.
I am fed up with Cpanel in multiple ways and want to drop the server where I currently have all my email and mail forwarders.
Is another VPS on Centos with Virtualmin a good route to manage my and my clients’ email?
Or is there a better solution for a mail server?
Cheers
Hugh
Hi,
In the last couple of hours I unfortunately had to reboot host
"talisker" including full shutdown & boot of all the VMs on it.
It seems from logs that problems started at approximately 01:00. The
first alerts came in at 01:22 when customers started trying to
reboot their VMs. Symptoms for customers were stalling of tasks,
unable to shut down properly, unable to boot again after forcibly
shutting down.
I spent some time trying to investigate but it wasn't making things
any better so by about 02:30 I decided to issue a reboot. Customer
VMs were all back up and running by about 02:45.
I continue to investigate what the root cause may be and am keeping
a close eye on things.
Apologies for the disruption this will have caused you.
Thanks,
Andy
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Hello,
After many years of abandonment we have relaunched Planet BitFolk, a
blog aggregator that syndicates articles by BitFolk-adjacent persons
and things:
https://planet.bitfolk.com/
There is more information about it here:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Planet_Bitfolk
If you would like to add yourself please submit a pull request or
whatever:
https://github.com/bitfolk/planet-bitfolk
It would be really good if you did, because at the moment it's a bit
Planet Popey. 😀
Cheers,
Andy
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Hello,
A long time ago I used to have a script that made a stacked graph of
which Linux distros customers chose over time. It was fun but the
script was horrible and hard to keep up to date, so I stopped in
2013:
https://ibin.co/5rTylhYv24am.png
I made a new one now in Grafana:
https://bitfolk.com/techspec.html#toc_3_Distro_Toothpaste
It's not very interesting yet because there's only 1 day of data in
it, but now seems like a good time to remind you that you can change
what distribution you report at:
https://panel.bitfolk.com/account/
I recently added Slackware since I know there's a few of those now.
Also if you reinstalled with something else then it might be out of
date.
Cheers,
Andy
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I'm planning to install software on my VPS, which requires incoming UDP
on port 10000.
My iptables is set to allow incoming udp on that port, but it remains
closed to the outside world.
I've set up a simple listener on port 10000, then tested using a web
service for port checking, and I've tested using telnet from two other
locations.
"Unable to connect to remote host: Connection time out", says telnet.
Have I omitted to do something I should have done?
Ian.
Hi,
==TL;DR: version==
You can now perform a mostly-automated install of CentOS 8.x from
our Xen Shell:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Using_the_self-serve_net_installer
xen shell> install centos_8
==Full version==
Installing CentOS 8 at BitFolk has previously only been possible by
booting the Rescue VM and doing it in a chroot:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Installing_CentOS_8
This is because as of CentOS 8, Red Hat decided to disable support
for PV and PVH mode Xen guests in all their kernels, even though the
upstream Linux kernel does have that supported by default.
Thanks to some work by Jon Fautley¹ in hacking together a modified
installer kernel and initrd for CentOS and RHEL we were able to
boot the installer anyway, so now a more normal install experience
is possible.
It is still necessary for CentOS users to switch to the kernel-ml
kernel package from ElRepo, so our installer does that for you.
===But isn't CentOS 8 dead?===
Red Hat recently moved the EOL date for CentOS 8 forward from 2029
to 31 December 2021. After that point, existing CentOS 8 users would
need to switch to CentOS Stream or some other distribution.
We would like to support CentOS Stream, as well as RHEL and perhaps
one of the more popular CentOS replacements (e.g. Rocky Linux)
should they ever make a release. This work was necessary for that.
===Should I install CentOS 8?===
Probably not given its short remaining lifespan, unless you want to
switch it to CentOS 8 Stream or RHEL8 later.
If you do we'd like to know how you get on with our installer. It's
only received light testing so far.
CentOS 7 is still security supported by the CentOS Linux project
until 30 June 2024.
===What is CentOS Stream?===
I'm not going to try to explain what Red Hat's product lineup is. As
far as I understand it's a rolling release, i.e. constantly updated,
with packages that are about to go into the corresponding RHEL
release. Red Hat does not recommend it for production use.
Red Hat's announcement is here:
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-centos-stream-updates
===Why are you considering offering RHEL?===
As of 1 February 2021 Red Hat is allowing its free Red Hat Developer
subscription to have up to 16 active servers:
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-progra…
It should be possible for us to support this soon, though with the
same caveat that it will likely be necessary to use the kernel-ml
EPEL package.
===Other questions?===
Please do ask if there's anything else.
Cheers,
Andy
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Hi all,
I run Debian Bullseye on my VPS. Overnight, Bind9 updated to version
9.11.1-1 and promptly crashed.
The fault is already known:
https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/issues/2413
and appears to relate to the use of a named ACL for "allow-update" in the
config. This matches my setup.
I've just downgraded back to 9.16.8-1 for now and that fixed things for
me. Thought I'd mention it, just in case anyone else runs into problems.
If you're on Bullseye and use ACLs in your Bind config, it might be
worth putting a hold on updates to bind9 for a little while.
Cheers,
Alun.
