Archive for June, 2010

Stop net-snmp log messages

  • June 30th, 2010
  • Posted in Linux

I am setting up a central logging host and have a central monitoring host that monitors all my servers with snmp queries.  This was filling up my log files so in order to disable this logging: * I edited the /etc/init.d/snmpd file and removed the -Lsd option at the front of the OPTIONS variable. * [ READ MORE ]

Secure central log server with syslog-ng and SSH

  • June 29th, 2010
  • Posted in Linux

SSL vs. SSH I chose to port forward syslog-ng traffic over SSH versus configuring syslog-ng over SSL due to the fact that I already had a port open on my servers for SSH and due to the fact that SSL attempts to make the connection with unencrypted channels and SSH encrypts all communications to and [ READ MORE ]

Change timezone in Linux

  • June 25th, 2010
  • Posted in Linux

Check the current time. Login as root and execute the date command: # date Backup your current localtime file: cp /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.bak Create a symbolic link to the appropriate timezone from /etc/localtime: ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime Set the ZONE entry in the file /etc/sysconfig/clock (ex. “America/Los_Angeles”) Set the hardware clock by executing: /sbin/hwclock –systohc Or [ READ MORE ]

Resource Mate on Linux

  • June 22nd, 2010
  • Posted in Linux

Get setupunix.ext from Resource Mate This is a Windows executable. It is purposely renamed to get through email.  Rename the file setupunix.exe and run it on a Windows system.   This will extract the necessary files you need for the installation Copy the files to the web server *Copy the cgi-bin folder to the DocumentRoot [ READ MORE ]

OS X Leopard Rotate Logs and Restart Zope

  • June 16th, 2010
  • Posted in OS X

I recently ran into an issue where our Zope process was crashing.  We have 4 Zope processes installed, 3 are load balanced with Zeo and the forth is for images files. I created a script that would check the size of the log files for each instance and if the size of the log files [ READ MORE ]

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