Been following a thread over at Web Hosting Talk today called “WHMCS got hacked?“. It seems their server was compromised by accessing the owners email and using this to gain access to the servers authentication details directly from the hosting provider. Many questions arise from this and from the information
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Unable to uninstall munin
While testing munin 2.x on debian, I was unable to uninstall it, Removing munin-node … [FAIL] Munin-Node appears to be unconfigured. … failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript munin-node, action “stop” failed. dpkg: error processing munin-node (–purge): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 6 [FAIL] Munin-Node appears to be unconfigured. …
Continue readingVarnish Nagios Check
**Update: 2 July 2014. Updated to new version 1.1 I have written a check for nagios/icinga to check the varnish backend health. You can get the latest version from github . The version at the time of posting at the bottom of this message. The defaults are RHEL defaults and
Continue readingSkype Auto Popup with Cinnamon
** Update 2 July 2014 ** May be outdated, see comments Since my migration to Linux Mint 12 I noticed a very annoying issue. When receiving a new message Skype pops up to the forefront over the current window. Needless to say it’s extremely annoying! Luckily a quick google shows
Continue readingMigrating from Ubuntu 11.10 to Linux Mint
Last night I decided to apply the Ubuntu 11.10 upgrade because the update notification was getting annoying and boy it turned out to be a pain. The previous upgrade introduced Unity which if you just have a google search look at the top recommendations should explain it all. “Unity Sucks”
Continue readingTwitter Mass Unfollow With Python
I decided to revive my old twitter account and wanted to unfollow all my old friends list, the majority were gained from an auto-follow script a few years ago and are nothing but spam. Given I want to start using twitter I only want to follow people I am
Continue readingERROR: Module backupdriver is in use
While updating several of our remaining systems from r1soft CDP 2 to CDP 3 we’ve been getting the following error, ERROR: Module backupdriver is in use r1soft-uninstall-buagent -R This uninstaller will remove the following.. File /etc/init.d/buagent File /usr/bin/buagent File /var/lock/buagent.lock File /var/run/buagent.pid File /usr/bin/r1key File /usr/bin/r1soft-cki File /usr/bin/r1soft-report.sh File /usr/bin/r1soft-uninstall-buagent
Continue readingMounting ext2/ext3 partitions on windows
Today I needed to mount one of my USB sticks on windows to copy some files over. To get windows to recognise it I altered/etc/mke2fs.conf and done the following. Removed ext_addr from “base_features” and commented out the inode_size line. Here is a diff from the default ubuntu e2fsprogs /etc/mke2fs.conf with
Continue readingWordPress Auto Wrapping Code
When posting code it wasn’t wrapping text properly on my blog due to how narrow it is. Luckily there’s some easy code that already exists to solve this so reposting it. height: 120px; overflow: auto; font-family: “Consolas”,monospace; font-size: 9pt; text-align:left; background-color: #FCF7EC; overflow-x: auto; /* Use horizontal scroller if needed;
Continue readingLearning Python
I had set myself a goal to make around 20 blog posts per year, it’s now almost December and I still have not bothered. It is safe to say I am not exactly prolific. I decided that I would learn python, surprisingly it’s been really easy to pick up and
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