Running Systems

Linux | Scripting/Programming

mime_decode-1 FAILED: Can’t locate object method “seek” via package “File::Temp ” at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/MIME/Parser.pm line 816
Byetzion 06/01/2008

This is the error message I have seen in my Linux+Postfix+Amavisd-new system. Not only that, but Amavis has kept a copy of each message in its tmp directory, which reduced my /var size to nothing quite rapidly. amavis[21189]: (21189-01) (!)PRESERVING EVIDENCE in /var/amavis/tmp/amavis-200 80103T051116-21189 Doesn’t sound too good. Partial search in google has produced the…

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AIX

Incorrect dependencies for installation of packages on AIX 5.3
Byetzion 05/12/2007

Following an upgrade of AIX 5.3 to level 07, with SP1 technology upgrade, I had encountered a problem installing a package required for Oracle 11g – rsct.basic.rte 2.4.8.0 This rsct.basic.rte package requires rsct.basic.rte version 2.4.0.0 from AIX CD, however, to install it, I am required to install xlC.aix61 version 9.0.0.1, which should not be here,…

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Disk Storage | Linux

iSCSI target/client for Linux in 5 whole minutes
Byetzion 04/12/2007

I was playing a bit with iSCSI initiator (client) and decided to see how complicated it is to setup a shared storage (for my purposes) through iSCSI. This proves to be quite easy… On the server: 1. Download iSCSI Enterprise Target from here, or you can install scsi-target-utils from Centos5 repository 2. Compile (if required)…

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Clusters | Linux | Virtualization

RedHat 4 working cluster (on VMware) config
Byetzion 11/11/2007

I have been struggling with RH Cluster 4 with VMware fencing device. This was also a good experiance with qdiskd, the Disk Quorum directive and utilization. I have several conclusions out of this experience. First, the configuration, as is: <?xml version=”1.0″?> <cluster alias=”alpha_cluster” config_version=”17″ name=”alpha_cluster”> <quorumd interval=”1″ label=”Qdisk1″ min_score=”3″ tko=”10″ votes=”3″> <heuristic interval=”2″ program=”ping vm-server…

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Virtualization

A note about VMware-Server machine security
Byetzion 10/11/2007

VMware allow setting a virtual machine as a private machine. By doing so, it actually adds to “/etc/vmware/vm-list-private” an additional comment, stating who is the owner of the machine. For example: cat /etc/vmware/vm-list-private # This file is automatically generated. # Hand-editing this file is not recommended. config “/vmware/Centos4-01/Centos4-01.vmx|root” config “/vmware/Centos4-02/Centos4-02.vmx|user” While it is very effective…

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Linux

VMware Perl SDK bug and workaround
Byetzion 10/11/2007

During an attempt to use the VMware Perl SDK, I have encountered the following error: VMControl Panic: SSLLoadSharedLibrary: Failed to load library /usr/bin/libcrypto.so.0.9.7:/usr/bin/libcrypto.so.0.9.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory This is weird, as it was compiled successfully on my system (Centos4), but still… The workaround was to create two symlinks: ln…

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