Hello,
The BitFolk wiki¹ was seriously due for an upgrade given it was an
i386 VM running PHP 5 and MySQL 5. I thought the hard bit would be
the OS upgrade as the Mediawiki was only going from v1.30 to v1.38
but I was wrong. Making Mediawiki work again is proving to be the
hard part!
Anyway, the wiki content is still there but the extensions are
broken, so you can't log in (LDAP extension) - and so can't edit -
and there's no syntax highlighting.
Will hopefully get it fixed before the weekend.
Cheers,
Andy
¹ https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/
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Hi,
Xen Security Advisories 410 and 411 came out of embargo today, after
2 weeks:
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/
I've prepared updates for these and have been running them on test
machines for nearly 2 weeks, but do not intend to force a reboot in
order to deploy them on production machines.
The reason for that is that the impact is denial of service but in
our configuration it would be:
a) only degraded performance, not overload to the point of
unavailability; and
b) noticed pretty quickly and offending VMs terminated
The bugs are only exploitable by multiple VMs on the same machine
acting together. In our setup the host machines have exclusive access
to some number of CPU cores so guests can never starve the host
machine of CPU.
The fixes are ready to be included at next boot.
Also disclosed today were XSA-409 which is only relevant to Arm
architecture, and XSA-413 which is for XAPI, which we don't use.
Thanks,
Andy
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Hi,
Do any of you, particularly those of you reading your emails in
Outlook on Windows, see the pound symbol (£) in your billing emails
mangled to "£"?
I've been talking to one customer who reported this and I wonder how
widespread the issue is. I am unable to reproduce it but I don't
have easy access to Outlook on Windows and can't see what might be
wrong just by looking at the raw email.
Of course if any of you can see what might be wrong, please do tell
me. 😀
One person did already say to me on IRC:
+dne> looks ok to me, but why "Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary" at
the top level?
and I don't know the answer to why I have that! I will consider
changing it if I can find more people who can help me work out if
changing it does make a difference.
This is specifically for the email from billing(a)bitfolk.con that
tells you when your renewal will be and has the PDF invoice attached.
Thanks,
Andy
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Gmail is bouncing emails sent by sendmail. The from address is
name@mydomain and I've set up an SPF DNS record for mydomain which looks
like
v=spf1 a a:aremiti36.vps.bitfolk.com ip6:2001:ba8:1f1:f09e::2 ~all
the domain and https://www.dmarcanalyzer.com/spf/checker finds it OK
but i'm still getting emails bounced:
kit.wallace(a)gmail.com
SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data:
host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [2a00:1450:400c:c06::1a]:
550-5.7.26 This message does not pass authentication checks (SPF and
DKIM both
550-5.7.26 do not pass). SPF check for [aremiti36.vps.bitfolk.com] does
not
550-5.7.26 pass with ip: [2001:ba8:1f1:f09e::2].To best protect our
users from
550-5.7.26 spam, the message has been blocked. Please visit
name@mydomain is redirected to kit.wallace(a)gmail.com so I'm not sure gmail
is even looking at mydomain's DNS record anyway
Basically I don't know what I'm doing and in need help!
Chris
Dear All
My VPS is on Debian 11. I cannot get firewalld to work. For example when
I stop firewalld by
systemctl stop firewalld
I would expect that I no longer can ssh into my VPS but I still can.
Does anyone know how to tell the system to use firewalld?
Regards,
Sam
Hello,
I have recently been working on a project to digitize my Family's
VHS/Hi8 tapes to MP4 video files and I was wondering if anyone had any
suggestions for a simple method of sharing them via a Website.
The obvious solution at first was a private Youtube channel, however I
am becoming disgruntled with it's overzealous copyright strikes when
there is some background audio over a PA system in some videos...
I've looked at Peertube but I would like something more lightweight.
Does anyone here have any suggestions?
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Callsign: M6WIQ
Web: https://www.m6wiq.uk
Hello.
<xxxxxxxx> Error establishing a database connection
<xxxxxxxx> This either means that the username and password information in your
wp-config.php file is incorrect or that contact with the
database server at localhost could not be established.
This could mean your host’s database server is down.
<xxxxxxxx> :((((((((
<xxxxxxxx> everything was working fine
<xxxxxxxx> might do a reboot
<xxxxxxxx> reboot didn't fix it
<xxxxxxxx> u@h:~$ sudo service mysql restart
<xxxxxxxx> Job for mysql.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
<xxxxxxxx> why would it just stop working out of the blue
<xxxxxxxx> stupid mysql
<grifferz> you're probably going to have to read the syslog
<xxxxxxxx> I did and it didn't help
<grifferz> well it will certainly say why it won't start
<xxxxxxxx> Jul 28 15:38:30 cho systemd[1]: mysql.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
<xxxxxxxx> Jul 28 15:38:30 cho systemd[1]: mysql.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
<xxxxxxxx> Jul 28 15:38:30 cho systemd[1]: Failed to start MySQL Community Server.
<xxxxxxxx> Process: 1637 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mysqld (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
<xxxxxxxx> Error: 28 (No space left on device)
<grifferz> is it time for me to again say that monitoring your free
disk space is useful in avoiding service outages and that
bitfolk can do that for you for free?
<xxxxxxxx> yes please
😀
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I had a crash yesterday evening at about 7.46 UCT (the time when my monitor messaged me)
I was in middle of nowhere and took me 3 hours to be able to boot from Zen, at about 10.40 UCT
/var/log/messages shows this
Jul 26 19:34:12 elm systemd[93989]: Reached target Exit the Session.
Jul 26 19:34:12 elm systemd[1]: user(a)0.service: Succeeded.
Jul 26 19:34:12 elm systemd[1]: Stopped User Manager for UID 0.
Jul 26 19:34:12 elm systemd[1]: Stopping User runtime directory /run/user/0...
Jul 26 19:34:12 elm systemd[1]: run-user-0.mount: Succeeded.
Jul 26 19:34:12 elm systemd[1]: user-runtime-dir(a)0.service: Succeeded.
Jul 26 19:34:12 elm systemd[1]: Stopped User runtime directory /run/user/0.
Jul 26 19:34:12 elm systemd[1]: Removed slice User Slice of UID 0.
Jul 30 22:02:48 elm systemd[282311]: Starting D-Bus User Message Bus Socket.
Jul 30 22:02:48 elm systemd[282311]: Started Mark boot as successful after the user session has run 2 minutes.
Jul 30 22:02:48 elm systemd[282311]: Reached target Timers.
Jul 30 22:02:48 elm systemd[282311]: Reached target Paths.
Jul 30 22:02:48 elm systemd[282311]: Listening on D-Bus User Message Bus Socket.
Jul 30 22:02:48 elm systemd[282311]: Reached target Sockets.
Note the future date!
Further down the log I see
Aug 3 ...
Then
Jul 24...
and then Jul 26 again
So I assume the file has got corrupted.
The first messages I can find after reboot time:
Jul 26 22:49:49 elm rsyslogd[1502]: imjournal: 414535 messages lost due to rate-limiting (20000 allowed within 600 secon
ds)
Jul 26 22:50:01 elm systemd[1]: Starting system activity accounting tool...
Jul 26 22:50:01 elm systemd[1]: Started Session 46 of user root.
Jul 26 22:50:01 elm systemd[1]: sysstat-collect.service: Succeeded.
Jul 26 22:50:01 elm systemd[1]: Started system activity accounting tool.
Jul 26 22:50:03 elm systemd[1]: session-46.scope: Succeeded.
And the rest of the log looks normal date and time order
Well out of my depth.
Any suggestions welcome a) to explain the above and b) where to look for cause of crash
Hugh
My VPS is receiving 250 connections per second from an IP 51.81.86.37.
This started yesterday evening. I've no idea who is doing it or why.
The logfiles are filling up as fast as I can delete them, but my website
keeps falling over as all the disk space has been filled.
Sample from syslog:
Jul 24 12:39:52 buddhismwithoutboundaries named[629]: client
51.81.86.37#44122 (.): query (cache) './ANY/IN' denied
Jul 24 12:39:52 buddhismwithoutboundaries named[629]: client
51.81.86.37#44122 (.): query (cache) './ANY/IN' denied
Jul 24 12:39:52 buddhismwithoutboundaries named[629]: client
51.81.86.37#17043 (.): query (cache) './ANY/IN' denied
Jul 24 12:39:52 buddhismwithoutboundaries named[629]: client
51.81.86.37#17043 (.): query (cache) './ANY/IN' denied
Jul 24 12:39:52 buddhismwithoutboundaries named[629]: client
51.81.86.37#17043 (.): query (cache) './ANY/IN' denied
Jul 24 12:39:52 buddhismwithoutboundaries named[629]: client
51.81.86.37#17043 (.): query (cache) './ANY/IN' denied
The IP belongs to a cloud hosting service, OVH. I've written an email
to abuse(a)ovh.ca, but I don't hold out much hope of them sorting it out.
Does anyone have a suggestion for how I should proceed?
Ian.
