Yum through http proxy

Hello,

I have several Fedora 13 servers that have to connect through an http proxy for yum updates. All port 80 traffic has to be routed through this proxy. I have setup the proxy server in the network settings GUI. I can browse the internet just fine. I have also setup my proxy information in /etc/yum.conf as follows: proxy=http:proxy.largecorp.corp/accelerated_pac_base.pac proxy_user=user proxy_password=password

I then added the export HTTP_PROXY="http:proxy.largecorp.corp/accelerated_pac_base.pac" to /etc/bashrc and sourced the file.

When i run yum update: Loaded plugins:presto, refresh-packagekit Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) fro repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again.

All of the repo urls are the defaults, as this is a fresh install.

From serverfault eodchop

• http:proxy.largecorp.corp/accelerated_pac_base.pac is not a valid URL, shouldn't it be http://proxy.largecorp.corp/accelerated_pac_base.pac?

  Apart from this, you should try to explicitely state which proxy yum needs to use, instead of pointing it to an auto-configuration URL like the one you're using; something like

  http://proxy.largecorp.corp:8080
  

  Just look up your actual proxy settings and use them.

  eodchop : That was a typo on my part.
  From Massimo

Adding users to Sharepoint when they are not in the same domain

Bear with me as I explain this, I'm working my way through Sharepoint access as I go, but I'll clarify my question as I go along.

The Problem We have about 10,000 users who need access to our Sharepoint 2005 based reporting. Because our organization is migrating from one domain to another, we need to add each user twice, once for each domain. For the current domain, this is no problem, we've got a powershell script that I tweaked to add all the users in a given CSV file, this takes about 5 minutes to run.

The big problem we're having is with users who are NOT in our currently active domain. Because the sharepoint server cannot authenticate the new users, we can't add them directly. What we're doing is creating a temp user, then using STSADM.EXE to migrate that test user to the proper domain/user_name for each of our 10,000 users. The creation and migration takes about 5 seconds per user, or well over 12 hours to run.

The Question

Has anyone encountered this before? Is there a way to add users without requiring AD authentication? Why is STSADM.EXE running so slow?

Thanks a lot for any advice or direction anyone can give me.

From serverfault $pageUsers[$entry.posts[0].author].name

• Wouldn't it be a lot easier to create a trust between the two domains?

  Chris Thorpe : This seems like the right way to go. You create a domain trust between the domains, and make sure sharepoint can see both. Then you add the users in fully qualified e.g. olddomain\username or username@olddomain
  From Massimo

Thunderbird is unable to find server in DHCP controlled network.

I have a network which consists of linux server and a combination of WinXP, Win7 and linux clients. All the systems are given dynamic IP addresses by the router which connects them all together. The server hosts an IMAP mail server. On Win7 and WinXP Thunderbird can access the IMAP server without any problems. On the linux client, using the same IMAP parameters, Thunderbird is unable to connect to the server.

How do I get Thunderbird to find the server? I'm not sure if this is a linux system configuration problem or a Thunderbird issue.

Additional note: The linux client is running Gnome, the server has a series of Samba shares defined. In the client, doing Places->Connect to Server and selecting Windows Share and specifying the server name, the Samba share is mounted OK.

From serverfault Skizz

• You probably want your imap server to have a fixed address if you can do that.

  If you cannot, then you probably want it to update your DNS with its name and current IP address.

  If you cannot do that, then you cannot do what you want.

  The reason Samba shares work is that the SMB protocol, while it uses IP, doesn't really use DNS. It's older than that, and each server just announces its presence periodically.

  Skizz : A static IP would certainly work, but what bothers me is that Thunderbird running in Windows can connect to the server without any problems, which seems like Windows is getting information the Linux client isn't and I was wondering what that something is.

  Robert Moir : Netbios name resolution possibly. In any case, this is a good case study for "why servers have fixed IP addresses" - because client software is unpredictable.
  From Michael Graff

• I would suggest running wireshark or tcpdump, filtered first to the IP address, and for later captures the MAC address of client system.

  1. Start the capture running, filtering on a windows box. Launch thunderbird. See what comes up.
  2. Start a new capture running, filtering on the linux box. Launch thunderbird. See what comes up.
  3. Iterate, filtering out stuff that seems obviously not related to the differences between the IMAP connection between the two machines.

  Eventually, you will see some kind of traffic sent by the Windows box which is not sent by the Linux box. I wonder if WINS is somehow involved.

  From EricJLN

Accessing multiple local HD's or RAID with ESXi 4.0

How to I get additional HD's to be recognized and used by ESXi 4.0.

When I purchased my system I had two 2TB HD's, but when I installed ESXi it only recognized one of them. I'm happy to get whatever number of drives that I need (I have a four bay SATA in my Dell T310).

What are some options? RAID? If so, is it supported. I guess I would need hardware instead of software since ESXi is so small.

The VMWare forums (where I've lived for the last two days) are a charlie foxtrot of outdated and conflicting info.

I want to utilize my T310, with 32 GB RAM, 2.8GHz quad core to run many lab Windows VM's. I don't need production level availability but I do want decent performance, even though it's in a lab environment.

A huge thanks to Jim B., Zypher, Helvick, and Jeff Hengesbach who posted answers to my earlier predecessor question on why ESXi was so sluggish.

From serverfault Shawn Anderson

• ESX and ESXi can't see individual volumes larger than 2TB which you have to bear in mind. There is some useful discussion on this with regard to ESXi and Dell servers in this VMware Communities thread. The 2TB limit stems from the fact that even with V4 both ESX and ESXi are still constrained by SCSI2 limits. If you build a RAID pack that is bigger than 2TB you will have to split it into volumes that are smaller than 2TB for ESXi to be able to use them. Note that this 2TB limit also applies to the maximum virtual disk (VMDK) size that ESX\ESXi can currently present to a VM but that's probably not an issue for you at this stage.

  The simplest way to add storage in your case is simply to add the drive and then rescan the storage adapters (Under the Configuration->Storage Adapters Tab select Rescan). This should then allow you to create a new Datastore on the new drive (under the Configuration->Storage Tab select the Add Storage link and then select New VMFS Datastore). The downside of this approach is that you are creating silos of single drive Datastores which isn't good for resilience or performance.

  If you have a RAID controller in the T310 then you should be able to configure RAID using the RAID BIOS at boot (CTRL+C to get into the SAS6/iR BIOS if you have that , CTRL+R if you have a PERC, see below if you have neither). That will allow you to build the RAID pack from the drives you have attached but your options will depend on the type of controller you have. You can then carve that (again in the Controller BIOS) into a number of smaller volumes so ESX can detect and use the storage. The problem with this approach is that you will probably need to reinstall ESXi completely to take full advantage of it but it's a much better way to present storage to ESX\ESXi.

  Dell's RAID controllers have some limitations and in order to implement a hardware RAID5 your choices are limited to the PERC-6i, H200 or H700 controllers. The SAS 6iR only supports RAID 0 or RAID 1. If you want other options you'll have to buy a 3rd party controller that is compatible with both ESXi and the T310. The VMWare Hardware Compatibility Guide is useful for finding this sort of thing. The Community Support site lists things that are not actively supported but have been reported to work.

  Shawn Anderson : Here is what I see on the HCL intro page. "NOTE: IDE RAID and SATA RAID are not supported for the VMFS file system." My T310 is a 4 bay SATA. Am I hosed here? My goal is to get higher IO so that I can run multiple Windows VM's without sluggishness. Am I reading this wrong? Do I have other options besides RAID, like having multiple discs (SATA) that ESXi can use simultaneously?

  Helvick : That statement doesn't mean it doesn't work (it does) just that VMWare don't support VMFS on SATA RAID. If you are using ESXi with its free licence then their active support isn't as important as knowing something will work. The Community support site is useful for scenarios like yours and the ESX Whitebox HCL [ http://www.vm-help.com//esx40i/esx40_whitebox_HCL.php ] is another unofficial site with useful pointers to configs that work.
  From Helvick

Performance problems - Jira running on Ubuntu over VMware ESX 4.0 maxing out all 4 vCPUs.

We are running Jira on a box under VMware ESX 4.0 and performance is vaiable to say the least. The physical box has 12 Gig RAM and 4x Xeon 2.26 GHz CPUs. vCentre is telling us the CPUs are not maxed out at any time, RAM is fine too. When we issue a request to the host it sometimes maxes out all 4 vCPUs. Sometimes it's quick, sometimes very very slow. There doesn't seem to be a pattern.

Any ideas?

From serverfault Jack T

• To me this sounds like the heap memory issue. I think jira allocated 128M of RAM to run on.

  So in

  ./bin/setenv.sh
  

  Just increase the memory options for

  JAVA_OPTS
  JIRA_MAX_PERM_SIZE
  

  Then restart jira.. see if that helps. That is what helped for me on slow page/ajax loads.

  From Mike

• Turned out they were Tunneling in over SSH (using putty SSH port forwarding ). I got them to VPN into our firewall instead and when they connected in via normal HTTP it worked just fine!

  Java having issues with SSH decrypt? Who knows. Working now.

  pauska : Please mark this as the solution to your question
  From Jack T

IIS not using available memory?

Recently launched an ASP.NET site running on a single 32-bit WS2003 box (SQL on a separate server). The server has 4GB intalled, 3GB available. According to task manager, the w3wp.exe process is only using between 200-600MB. The site has tens of thousands of pages and makes heavy use of page output caching, so I would expect it to use a lot more of the available memory.

The app pool isn't set to throttle memory usage. Is there anything else that might be limiting the amount of memory that IIS takes?

From serverfault Herb Caudill

• There shouldn't be anything else besides the app pool that throttles that. Are you seeing any problems, or are you just baselining the system and want to make sure you understand everything?

  Herb Caudill : No, no problems - just seems strange, and makes me think that something could be preventing it from using the available memory.
  From mfinni

• The site may host a lot of pages, but what about the load? If there are only a couple hundred http requests coming in per hour, I wouldn't expect the server to use up all available memory.
  
  

  Also echoing mfinni's comment, are you having any problems or just trying to understand your server?

  Herb Caudill : The site typically handles between 10K and 15K requests per hour.
  From SDGuero

Is it secure to store the cert/key on a private AMI?

Are there any major security implications to bundling a private AMI which contains the private key/certificate & environment variables?

For resiliency I'm creating an EC2 image which should be able to boot and configure itself without any intervention. After boot it will attempt to:

• Attach & mount specific EBS volume(s)
• Associate a specific Elastic IP
• Start issuing backups of the EBS volume(s) to S3

However, to do this it will need the private key/pem files and will need certain environment variables to be available on start-up. Since this is a private AMI I'm wondering if it will be "safe" to store these variables/files directly in the image so that I don't need to specify any user-data information and can therefore start a new instance remotely (from my iPhone, if needed) should the instance be terminated for any reason.

From serverfault Phillip Oldham

• I can't really think of a more secure way to do it, since a private AMI is protected by the same AWS levels of security as your EC2 account.

  An alternative would be to store the keys in a source code repository and check them out when you start up the EC2 instance; although you're then sending the keys across the wire, you can encrypt the traffic(e.g. with svn:ssh or https for Subversion).

  From gareth_bowles

• A private AMI is safe, I wouldn't worry about anyone hacking your S3 data. However, a running server is as safe as you made it and you should assume that it is hackable. Therefore, your keys, which are really the key to Everything on your account, should not be left lying around.

  Make sure that the startup scripts delete the keys from the disk and do not retain them, unless there is a really good reason.

  If your server uses other AWS services and needs the keys to access them, consider having multiple AWS accounts for various services, and consolidate their billing for your convenience.

  You can also use external management services like RightScale, Scalr or Eucalyptus.

  From Shalom Carmel

• AMIs which are directly stored in S3 will be encrypted by Amazon and signed with your keys (see "The creation process for an AMI that uses an instance store as its root device does the following:" in http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/DeveloperGuide/index.html?ComponentsAMIs.html).

  However, AMIs stored in EBS volumes are based on snapshots, which are not encrypted: aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#Do_you_offer_encryption_on_Amazon_EBS_volumes_or_snapshots

  In either case, you should take a critical look at the permissions on the S3 bucket containing your AMI. By default the bucket will only be accessible by your account, but you may also want to add further protection using S3 ACLs.

  From

error in IIS7 but not on IIS6

I have a website that is we are now deploying to windows 2008 servers that has worked in the past on IIS6 without a problem. It is using .net 2 framework. Most of the website works. Just when we create a screen report over a certain size on the server we get this error.

Event code: 3005

Event message: An unhandled exception has occurred.

Event time: 6/2/2010 10:40:17 AM

Event time (UTC): 6/2/2010 3:40:17 PM

Event ID: 1b719ad45d444f949ecc9cbc23f49720

Event sequence: 10

Event occurrence: 1

Event detail code: 0

Application information:

Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/3/ROOT-1-129199668164927170

Trust level: Full

Application Virtual Path: /

Application Path: c:\web\PatronAccess\

Machine name: WIN2008DEV

Process information:

Process ID: 4712

Process name: w3wp.exe

Account name: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE

Exception information:

Exception type: HttpException

Exception message: Invalid viewstate.

Request information:

Request URL: http://win2008dev/WebResource.axd?d=xCXKkHAeSYHWbCg.gif

Request path: /WebResource.axd

User host address: 172.17.2.66

User:

Is authenticated: False

Authentication Type:

Thread account name: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE

Thread information:

Thread ID: 6

Thread account name: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE

Is impersonating: False

Stack trace: at System.Web.UI.Page.DecryptStringWithIV(String s, IVType ivType)

at System.Web.Handlers.AssemblyResourceLoader.System.Web.IHttpHandler.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)

at System.Web.HttpApplication.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute()

at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously)

Custom event details:

And this one.

A process serving application pool 'PatronAccess' suffered a fatal communication error with the Windows Process Activation Service. The process id was '4596'. The data field contains the error number.

I have a debug of the application pool but I don't know where to go from here.

* wait with pending attach Symbol search path is: Executable search path is: ModLoad: 00bd0000 00bd8000 c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe ModLoad: 77380000 774a7000 C:\Windows\system32\ntdll.dll ModLoad: 75cb0000 75d8b000 C:\Windows\system32\kernel32.dll ModLoad: 75b60000 75c26000 C:\Windows\system32\ADVAPI32.dll ModLoad: 75df0000 75eb2000 C:\Windows\system32\RPCRT4.dll ModLoad: 76500000 765aa000 C:\Windows\system32\msvcrt.dll ModLoad: 76250000 762ed000 C:\Windows\system32\USER32.dll ModLoad: 75ae0000 75b2b000 C:\Windows\system32\GDI32.dll ModLoad: 75ec0000 76004000 C:\Windows\system32\ole32.dll ModLoad: 731a0000 731d6000 c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\IISUTIL.dll ModLoad: 75330000 75421000 C:\Windows\system32\CRYPT32.dll ModLoad: 75490000 754a2000 C:\Windows\system32\MSASN1.dll ModLoad: 758e0000 758fe000 C:\Windows\system32\USERENV.dll ModLoad: 758c0000 758d4000 C:\Windows\system32\Secur32.dll ModLoad: 75b30000 75b5d000 C:\Windows\system32\WS2_32.dll ModLoad: 774e0000 774e6000 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C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_32\System.Data\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.Data.dll ModLoad: 69c70000 69ca2000 C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\048afd31\e1f306b4\App_Web_zwtn5a73.dll ModLoad: 69e70000 69e8e000 C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\048afd31\e1f306b4\App_Web_qijxg7dv.dll ModLoad: 645a0000 647bf000 C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v2.0.50727_32\System.Web.Mobile\b472cb382c17ffc3cb1a91ce12d90bf1\System.Web.Mobile.ni.dll ModLoad: 69c30000 69c66000 C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v2.0.50727_32\System.Web.RegularE#\e6b57c0506ec849c6706cb5617ad7372\System.Web.RegularExpressions.ni.dll ModLoad: 6c300000 6c30a000 C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\048afd31\e1f306b4\App_Web__hyepzhd.dll ModLoad: 69e00000 69e08000 C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET 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image64350000 ModLoad: 05fd0000 06216000 image05fd0000 ModLoad: 5edd0000 5f016000 image5edd0000 ModLoad: 05fd0000 06216000 image05fd0000 ModLoad: 5edd0000 5f016000 C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\048afd31\e1f306b4\assembly\dl3\30e4a2ff\00dfbf77_5153ca01\Infragistics2.WebUI.UltraWebGrid.v9.2.DLL ModLoad: 67d50000 67da6000 image67d50000 ModLoad: 04e70000 04ec6000 image04e70000 ModLoad: 68cb0000 68ce4000 image68cb0000 ModLoad: 04e70000 04ea4000 image04e70000 ModLoad: 68790000 687c4000 image68790000 ModLoad: 04eb0000 04ee4000 image04eb0000 ModLoad: 688f0000 68924000 image688f0000 ModLoad: 04eb0000 04ee4000 image04eb0000 ModLoad: 688f0000 68924000 C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\048afd31\e1f306b4\assembly\dl3\2420cb22\00a1ab83_5153ca01\Infragistics2.WebUI.WebCombo.v9.2.DLL ModLoad: 66d50000 66da0000 image66d50000 ModLoad: 04f80000 04fd0000 image04f80000 ModLoad: 67d60000 67db0000 image67d60000 ModLoad: 05a00000 05a50000 image05a00000 ModLoad: 66d00000 66d50000 image66d00000 ModLoad: 05a00000 05a50000 image05a00000 ModLoad: 66d00000 66d50000 C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\048afd31\e1f306b4\assembly\dl3\6ceab935\00b28e76_5153ca01\Infragistics2.WebUI.WebDataInput.v9.2.DLL ModLoad: 11000000 1112e000 image11000000 ModLoad: 05a50000 05b7e000 image05a50000 ModLoad: 11000000 1112e000 image11000000 ModLoad: 05d80000 05eae000 image05d80000 ModLoad: 11000000 1112e000 image11000000 ModLoad: 05d80000 05eae000 image05d80000 ModLoad: 11000000 1112e000 C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\048afd31\e1f306b4\assembly\dl3\e99fdd05\00c79c09_d868c301\itextsharp.DLL ModLoad: 04df0000 04dfe000 LinkPointAPI-cs.dll ModLoad: 04e70000 04e7e000 LinkPointAPI-cs.dll ModLoad: 04df0000 04dfe000 LinkPointAPI-cs.dll ModLoad: 04e80000 04e8e000 LinkPointAPI-cs.dll ModLoad: 04df0000 04dfe000 LinkPointAPI-cs.dll ModLoad: 04e80000 04e8e000 LinkPointAPI-cs.dll ModLoad: 04df0000 04dfe000 C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\048afd31\e1f306b4\assembly\dl3\0e724536\00922343_54dfc701\LinkPointAPI-cs.DLL ModLoad: 04e70000 04e78000 image04e70000 ModLoad: 04e90000 04e98000 image04e90000 ModLoad: 04e70000 04e78000 image04e70000 ModLoad: 04ea0000 04ea8000 image04ea0000 ModLoad: 04e70000 04e78000 image04e70000 ModLoad: 04ea0000 04ea8000 image04ea0000 ModLoad: 04e70000 04e78000 C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\048afd31\e1f306b4\assembly\dl3\859797c4\00eb5fc5_bed8c401\LinkPointTransaction.DLL ModLoad: 65e80000 65fdc000 PatronAccess.dll ModLoad: 05a50000 05bac000 PatronAccess.dll ModLoad: 6ab40000 6ab48000 SessionTimeoutControl.dll ModLoad: 04e90000 04e98000 SessionTimeoutControl.dll ModLoad: 6ab80000 6ab8e000 WebServices.dll ModLoad: 04e90000 04e9e000 WebServices.dll ModLoad: 6ab40000 6ab4e000 WebServices.dll ModLoad: 04ef0000 04efe000 WebServices.dll ModLoad: 69d40000 69d4e000 WebServices.dll ModLoad: 04ef0000 04efe000 WebServices.dll ModLoad: 69d40000 69d4e000 C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\048afd31\e1f306b4\assembly\dl3\21555aa5\5f498093_fefcca01\WebServices.DLL ModLoad: 694e0000 694f8000 image694e0000 ModLoad: 04f80000 04f98000 image04f80000 ModLoad: 661c0000 6624e000 System.ServiceModel.Web.dll ModLoad: 05a50000 05ade000 System.ServiceModel.Web.dll ModLoad: 5d850000 5ddfc000 System.ServiceModel.dll ModLoad: 06220000 067cc000 System.ServiceModel.dll ModLoad: 65ef0000 65fe0000 System.Runtime.Serialization.dll ModLoad: 05eb0000 05fa0000 System.Runtime.Serialization.dll ModLoad: 694e0000 694fe000 SMDiagnostics.dll ModLoad: 04f80000 04f9e000 SMDiagnostics.dll ModLoad: 65be0000 65d1c000 System.Web.Extensions.dll ModLoad: 067d0000 0690c000 System.Web.Extensions.dll ModLoad: 67d40000 67dac000 System.IdentityModel.dll ModLoad: 05ae0000 05b4c000 System.IdentityModel.dll ModLoad: 687a0000 687c2000 System.IdentityModel.Selectors.dll ModLoad: 04fa0000 04fc2000 System.IdentityModel.Selectors.dll ModLoad: 66c90000 66cf4000 Microsoft.Transactions.Bridge.dll ModLoad: 05b50000 05bb4000 Microsoft.Transactions.Bridge.dll ModLoad: 69130000 69146000 System.Web.Abstractions.dll ModLoad: 051b0000 051c6000 System.Web.Abstractions.dll ModLoad: 65150000 651f6000 System.Core.dll ModLoad: 06910000 069b6000 System.Core.dll ModLoad: 64440000 644ea000 System.Data.Linq.dll ModLoad: 069c0000 06a6a000 System.Data.Linq.dll ModLoad: 66d50000 66d9c000 System.Data.Services.Client.dll ModLoad: 06a70000 06abc000 System.Data.Services.Client.dll ModLoad: 68cd0000 68cf0000 System.Data.Services.Design.dll ModLoad: 05210000 05230000 System.Data.Services.Design.dll ModLoad: 5eb00000 5edc2000 System.Data.Entity.dll ModLoad: 06ac0000 06d82000 System.Data.Entity.dll ModLoad: 66af0000 66b16000 System.Xml.Linq.dll ModLoad: 05fa0000 05fc6000 System.Xml.Linq.dll ModLoad: 661c0000 6624e000 C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.ServiceModel.Web\3.5.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35\System.ServiceModel.Web.dll ModLoad: 64520000 6459e000 System.WorkflowServices.dll ModLoad: 06d90000 06e0e000 System.WorkflowServices.dll ModLoad: 63af0000 63c80000 System.Workflow.ComponentModel.dll ModLoad: 06e10000 06fa0000 System.Workflow.ComponentModel.dll ModLoad: 64320000 6443a000 System.Workflow.Activities.dll ModLoad: 06fa0000 070ba000 System.Workflow.Activities.dll ModLoad: 62cf0000 62d78000 System.Workflow.Runtime.dll ModLoad: 070c0000 07148000 System.Workflow.Runtime.dll ModLoad: 68cb0000 68cc6000 Microsoft.Build.Utilities.dll ModLoad: 07150000 07166000 Microsoft.Build.Utilities.dll ModLoad: 6ab80000 6ab8c000 Microsoft.Build.Framework.dll ModLoad: 05230000 0523c000 Microsoft.Build.Framework.dll ModLoad: 07170000 07214000 Microsoft.Build.Tasks.dll ModLoad: 07220000 072c4000 Microsoft.Build.Tasks.dll ModLoad: 64520000 6459e000 C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.WorkflowServices\3.5.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35\System.WorkflowServices.dll ModLoad: 5d610000 5d84e000 C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v2.0.50727_32\System.Runtime.Seri#\a33b3b88fd575b703ba4212c677880ae\System.Runtime.Serialization.ni.dll ModLoad: 605a0000 606a6000 C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v2.0.50727_32\System.IdentityModel\3bfbe737873becead614d1504e7d5684\System.IdentityModel.ni.dll ModLoad: 5ab70000 5bbf7000 C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v2.0.50727_32\System.ServiceModel\7115815b53ec561932345e16fbeea968\System.ServiceModel.ni.dll ModLoad: 61440000 6201e000 C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v2.0.50727_32\System.Windows.Forms\1941d7639299344ae28fb6b23da65247\System.Windows.Forms.ni.dll ModLoad: 5d190000 5d3c4000 C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v2.0.50727_32\System.Core\a0522cb280c09b3441e1889502ca145a\System.Core.ni.dll ModLoad: 60a00000 61433000 C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v2.0.50727_32\System.Design\d3fa02f8a34329c8b84c004afaea7054\System.Design.ni.dll (16cc.1454): CLR exception - code e0434f4d (first chance) (16cc.1454): Access violation - code c0000005 (first chance) First chance exceptions are reported before any exception handling. This exception may be expected and handled. eax=00000000 ebx=01776038 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 esi=017ff314 edi=018907f8 eip=071a62fc esp=0499ee88 ebp=0499eef4 iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00010246 071a62fc 8b01 mov eax,dword ptr [ecx] ds:0023:00000000=???????? 0:018> g (16cc.1454): CLR exception - code e0434f4d (first chance) (16cc.1454): Access violation - code c0000005 (first chance) First chance exceptions are reported before any exception handling. This exception may be expected and handled. eax=00000000 ebx=01776038 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 esi=017ff200 edi=0186ed04 eip=071a62fc esp=0499ee88 ebp=0499eef4 iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00010246 071a62fc 8b01 mov eax,dword ptr [ecx] ds:0023:00000000=???????? 0:018> g (16cc.1358): Access violation - code c0000005 (first chance) First chance exceptions are reported before any exception handling. This exception may be expected and handled. eax=00000000 ebx=01776038 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 esi=017ff200 edi=01858380 eip=071a62fc esp=0742ee98 ebp=0742ef04 iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00010246 071a62fc 8b01 mov eax,dword ptr [ecx] ds:0023:00000000=???????? 0:020> g (16cc.1358): Access violation - code c0000005 (first chance) First chance exceptions are reported before any exception handling. This exception may be expected and handled. eax=00000000 ebx=017758a4 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 esi=017fd078 edi=018b6afc eip=071a62fc esp=0742ee98 ebp=0742ef04 iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00010246 071a62fc 8b01 mov eax,dword ptr [ecx] ds:0023:00000000=???????? 0:020> g (16cc.1358): Stack overflow - code c00000fd (first chance) First chance exceptions are reported before any exception handling. This exception may be expected and handled. eax=00000000 ebx=020504b4 ecx=000001d1 edx=0000001b esi=020503d4 edi=073f2998 eip=6eaf0ed3 esp=073f2980 ebp=073f30ec iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00010246 * WARNING: Unable to verify checksum for C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v2.0.50727_32\System.Data\813556b5a2722045b0ea14467fd00227\System.Data.ni.dll System_Data_ni!_bidW103 (System_Data_ni+0x460ed3): 6eaf0ed3 f3ab rep stos dword ptr es:[edi]

Any help would be appricated.

From serverfault Brad

• You might follow up with this answer from SO? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/934462/scriptresource-error-am-i-being-hacked

  Brad : To resolve the problem I had to change how in the asp.net code I was entering the dataview.rowfilter from a query "id='2' or id='4' ..." to a query "id In('2', '4', ...)" This change fixed the problem in IIS7. Thanks
  From drachenstern

Configure Postini and emailreg.org

One of our companies uses Postini services as our spam filtering service. Unfortunately, the company has been tagged as a spammer and we're trying to use emailreg.org to whitelist us. Emailreg.org wants us to add a CNAME which points to their domain (emaireg.org), while Postini has us add MX records (such as domainname.s7a1.psmtp.com. Here are my questions: 1. Can adding Emaireg's CNAME cause either Postini to not work or our emails to be lost? 2. Which is order of execution (do the email go to Postini and upon their return to EmailReg or is it the other way around)? 3. Is there anything of which I should be aware when using such a setup?

Thanks, in advance, for all your help!

From serverfault Charles

• Are they asking you to make a cname from your mail fqdn to them? Don't do that, it'll break your email. From some subdomain of that? Sure, go ahead.

  Are you sure you want to be paying $20 to some service that says in big bold letters "this won't get you off of any blacklists" ?

  From Bill Weiss

Decyphering Seagate drive model numbers?

I'm comparing Seagate's Enterprise and Desktop drives for a variety of old and new servers. These servers come from different generations, so options like size (73GB, 2TB) and interface (SATA vs SAS 3.0Gbps vs SAS 6Gbps vs SCSI Ultra320) are widely variable.

I'm trying to compare the sizes, speeds and interfaces, but I'm getting thrown off by different models. Also, their website is not the best. Does anyone know of a documented explanation of the Seagate model numbers? And is there a single spreadsheet which compares the features for all drives (or all 'Enterprise' drives?).

Seagate drives have model numbers like this:

• Model ST3600057SS 6-Gb/s SAS 600 GB None at Cheetah® 15K Hard Drives
• Model ST373455LW Ultra320 SCSI 73.4 GB 68-Pin LW at Cheetah® 15K Hard Drives
• Model ST32000644NS SATA 3Gb/s 2 TB None at Constellation™ ES Hard Drives
• Model ST973452SS 6-Gb/s SAS 73 GB None Savvio® 15K Hard Drives
• Model ST9200011FS SATA 3Gb/s 200 GB Pulsar™ Solid State Drives

I understand the model numbers read something like this:

• ST - SOMETHING1 - SIZE - SOMETHING2 - INTERFACE

Where the fields mean something like this:

• ST : For 'Seagate'? 'Seagate Technoligies'?
• SOMETHING1 - This field has number, but I'm not sure what that represents.
• SIZE - Size in Gigabytes. This is a number like '73' or '300' or '2000'
• SOMETHING2 - This field also has a number, but I'm not sure what it means.
• INTERFACE - This field seems to indicate the Interface. 'SS' means SAS, 'FC' means Fibre Channel, but I don't see how to distinguish between 6Gbps SAS and 3Gbps SAS, or different SATA or FC speeds.
• I don't see a field which indicates the RPM (15K , 10K, 7.2K) etc. Is this part of the model number?

From serverfault Stefan Lasiewski

• Is this what your looking for ?

  Stefan Lasiewski : Yes yes yes! How did I miss that page?
  From Iain

mdadm raid1 fails to resync

Hello, I'm trying to solve this problem I'm having with an mdadm raid1.

I have an ubuntu 9.04 server running on a software 2-drive raid1 with mdadm. Yesterday, one of the drives failed, and so I replaced it with a brand new drive of the same size. I removed the faulty drive, copied the partition from the remaining good drive to the new drive and then added it to the raid. It re-synced and the system worked fine, until the drive that hadn't failed, was also labeled failed.

Now I had the raid running solely on the new drive. So I purchased another drive and repeated the procedure above. So now I had 2 brand new drives and the raid was syncing. However, after a few minutes I checked /proc/mdstat and the raid was no longer syncing.

mdadm --detail /dev/md1 shows: (sdb is the first new drive, and sdc is the second new drive)

root@dola:/home/jjaramillo# mdadm --detail /dev/md1 /dev/md1: Version : 00.90 Creation Time : Sat Dec 20 00:42:05 2008 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 974711680 (929.56 GiB 998.10 GB) Used Dev Size : 974711680 (929.56 GiB 998.10 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 1 Persistence : Superblock is persistent

Update Time : Wed Jun  2 10:09:35 2010
      State : clean, degraded

Active Devices : 1 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 1

       UUID : bba497c6:5029ba0b:bfa4f887:c0dc8f3d
     Events : 0.5395594

Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
   2       8       35        0      spare rebuilding   /dev/sdc3
   1       8       19        1      active sync   /dev/sdb3

I've tried removing and re-adding the drive a few times, but the same thing happens. The raid fails to resync. I've looked at /var/log/messages, and found the following:

Jun 2 07:57:36 dola kernel: [35708.917337] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code Jun 2 07:57:36 dola kernel: [35708.917339] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Jun 2 07:57:36 dola kernel: [35708.917342] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [descriptor] Jun 2 07:57:36 dola kernel: [35708.917346] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): Jun 2 07:57:36 dola kernel: [35708.917348] 72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 Jun 2 07:57:36 dola kernel: [35708.917357] 00 43 9e 47 Jun 2 07:57:36 dola kernel: [35708.917360] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed

So it looks like there's some kind of error on sdb (the first new drive). My question is, what would be the best approach to get the raid up and running again? I've thought about dd'ing the /dev/md1 to a blank hard drive, then re-doing the raid from scratch and loading the data back, but there could be an easier solution..

Any help would be appreciated.

From serverfault JuanD

• RE:

  I removed the faulty drive, copied the partition from the remaining good drive to the new drive and then added it to the raid.

  You shouldn't be copying partitions on your own.

  The only thing you should have to do is put the new drive into your system, and use mdadm to add it to your raid group.

  If you really did do a copy (ie. a dd if=/dev/good_disk of=/dev/new_disk), you probably wound up copying raid UUIDs or something that let mdadm know which disk is which, and then it gets confused.

  JuanD : Sorry, I worded that wrong... I meant, I copied the partition scheme from disk to disk, with sfdisk... Thx

  Tom O'Connor : The command you want to copy partitions is `sfdisk -d /dev/gooddrive | sfdisk /dev/newdrive`
  From Trevor Harrison

• Install the new hd, partition it like Tom O'Connor suggested and then use mdadm to repair the array. See the man page of mdadm under "For Manage mode:", the --add option:

  mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sda1 
  

  You may have to "--fail" the first replacement drive first.

  From AndreasM

• You shouldn't attempt to prepare the new drive in any meaningful way unless your raid constituents are actually disk PARTITIONS not disks themselves. In which case, you would create a partition on the new drive that is the same size as the one on the remaining active disk.

  You never need to touch the old drive at all -- it's assumed to be failed and unreliable.

  The correct procedure is to remove the broken drive, add a new, empty drive, and then use mdadm to add that new drive to the array. You'd do it something like this:

  mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/<newdrive>
  

  The kernel will then sync the new drive into the array, copying the data from the one remaining good drive.

  From tylerl

permissions on upload folder not working

I have a php script which uploads images to a folder.

I have these permissions on the upload folder:

  drwxrwxr--  4 user user   4096 2010-06-02 16:20 temp_images

Shouldn't these permissions be enough for files to be uploaded to the folder?

But this doesn't work.

It only works when I set the permissions to 777.

"user" is added to the www-data group, still no luck.

Any ideas why?

From serverfault Camran

• If safe_mode is on, then user should be the apache/php user unless you set safe_mode_gid to on where check is done on group instead of user

  Camran : what do you mean? if safe_mode is off, then apache user doesn't matter?

  radius : see Zoredache answer, I miss readed something in your question
  From radius

• Your folder is owned by the user and group user. If apache is running as a different account, perhaps www-data then apache will not be able to write there. Adding the user account to the www-data group would mean that user is permitted to write in folders that the www-data group owns and is set for rw. If you want apache to write to the folder the group user owns the apache service account must be a member of the user group.

  From Zoredache

• The owner of the directory should be the effective userid of the web servers. Try changing the ownership, then you can set the permissions to 700, 750, or 755.

  chown www-data temp_images

  From BillThor

How to prevent Linux from deleting temporary files on shutdown

Hi, I am using Ubutu 10.04. I have some apps that create a few temporary files in /tmp/<file> as part of their shutdown process. I want to inspect those files when the apps are closed in the event of a system shutdown. However, when the system comes up again I find that all temporary files have been deleted. How can I ask the system not to clear the files in /tmp/ on shutdown?

From serverfault $pageUsers[$entry.posts[0].author].name

• /tmp is often an in memory file system so once you reboot, it's gone.

  Instead of trying to preserve /tmp, I would try to get my processes to write to a different directory. If they are written well, the apps should honor the TMPDIR environment variable to decide where to write temp files; you can then have it point to another directory such as /var/tmp which should survive a reboot.

  From $pageUsers[$post.author].name

• you could change the times that files in /tmp have to be modified in order to delete them. but if you configure your linux distro to keep the files /tmp for ever and/or a long time then you hard disk will be filled with useless (or not) files in /tmp directory .. take a look here

  EricJLN : Taking into account the comment about /tmp being mounted as a "ramdisk" (aka tmpfs), use the `mount` command to make sure your system wasn't configured that way.
  From $pageUsers[$post.author].name

• You can define when files from /tmp can be deleted. You should change the value of TMPTIME variable form /etc/default/rcS file.

  The default value of these variable is 0 - these means that files will be deleted every time computer starts. Set up TMPTIME to 3 means that will delete files older than 3 days.

  But you can set TMPTIME=infinite - these means that the files will be never deleted.

  From Lukasz Stelmach

Windows licensing of a virtual copy of 2003 server standard edition

I have a licensed instance of 2003 server standard edition on a physical server. can i also then run a third party virtual instance of the same server on the physical machine... i.e a vmware server with a cloned copy of the server for testing.

or do i need another license for the virtual copy as well?

From serverfault Marko

• STANDARD LICENSING DISCLAIMER:

  While SF can give you a decent idea, and more often than not a very good answer, the best place to ask these types of questions is to ask you licensing representative from Microsoft.

  With server 2003 you could have the following virtual servers per license:

  Standard: 1 VM OR 1 Physical
  Enterprise: 4 VM OR 1 Physical
  Datacenter: Unlimited VM OR 1 Physical

  I'm pretty sure they changed this for 08, but i can't find the 2003 page anymore it all redirects to 2008 R2 so this is purely from memory.

  Greg Askew : That is also what I recall. The document below has the information for the 2003 time period. Interestingly, it still has the markup info. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdownload.microsoft.com%2Fdocuments%2Fuk%2Flicensing%2Ffaq%2Fdownloads%2Fvirtual-machine-environment.doc&ei=hYsGTL6pJoGKlwfmwvTaCg&usg=AFQjCNG4PnsDjFIDvAzeShHvJc1RPGIzAw&sig2=LAjeyZveQu2m7u_5L45U0Q

  Chris S : +1, correct info; 2008 (& 2008 R2) is different.

  Helvick : The change for 2008 (and 2008 R2) simply take into account the fact that they allow the physical host to be licensed to run as a Hyper-V role in addition to licensing a VM instance or instances. The OS instance on the physical host can only be used to run Hyper-V though.
  From Zypher

Will modules installed by insmod command persist after rebooting?

There is how the book I'm reading describe the insmod utility:

The program loads the module code and data into the kernel, which, in turn, performs a function similar to that of ld, in that it links any unresolved symbol in the module to the symbol table of the kernel. Unlike the linker, however, the kernel doesn’t modify the module’s disk file, but rather an in-memory copy.

It looks like it won't persist since it's in-memory, but I'm not sure.

From serverfault apache

• No, they won't. After rebooting, you begin from scratch.

  Normally, for modules that you want loaded after every reboot, there's a configuration file listing modules to be auto-loaded at boot time.

  Look at /etc/modules.

  man modules:

  NAME
     /etc/modules - kernel modules to load at boot time
  
  DESCRIPTION
     The  /etc/modules file contains the names of kernel modules that are to
     be loaded at boot time, one per line. Arguments can  be  given  in  the
     same line as the module name. Lines beginning with a '#' are ignored.
  

  From Karol Piczak

• Modules manually loaded using insmod do not persist when your system is rebooted (for that behavior see the manpage for modules.confmodules, which essentially runs insmod automatically on reboot, but with a bit more intelligence).

  ed: modules, not modules.conf (the latter is useful if you're writing a custom module with dependencies)

  From voretaq7

Help setting up a dns nameserver for parking domains

Hi There

I need to be able to create name server entries for new domains being registered and need some help in setting up a name server on the internet. I am looking for some good resources - prefereably with a windows machine.

Any tips to help getting started greatly appreciated.

Cheers.

From serverfault Chev

• Some providers will park your name for free (they almost always put advertising up on your sites). Some charge a small fee to put up an "under construction" or similar page.

  Otherwise you just have to get regular hosting like any other site. A very basic plan will do if you have only one "under construction" or "coming soon" page to host.

  Edit:
  If your interested in running your own servers (which is not clear by the title), I recommend installing Bind9 for Windows, available for free from the ISC.

  Bind is the most widely supported free DNS server, and there are many tutorials that are pretty easy to understand (though most will have to be adapted, as they're written for *nix). The server will come with sample configuration files, the complete Admin Reference Manual, and supporting tools for diagnosing problems (it's a pretty well rounded download).

  Chev : Thanks for the reply Chris. Like I said, I am interested in setting up my own nameserver, not using a provider.
  From Chris S

• Do not use a windows machine as a server on the internet. I will probably get flamed for saying that. I don't care.

  That being said, powerdns is really nice. Bind is widely used, but I've found it too limiting.

  Though, it will probably be easier to do what Chris said and just rent a server that will allow you to use unlimited domain names. Maybe a VPS with a control panel as it seems a GUI is something you'd want.

  From sims

Mass change DNS settings or at least identify by DNS

We have quite a few Windows based servers and I'm attempting to figure out either A. How I can change all of their DNS settings automatically (they all have local static IPs) or, failing that, B. at least query what their DNS settings are and sort by those that're using our old DNS servers.

We have both SCCM and SCOM if that helps in the situation.

From serverfault tearman

• Got powershell? There's a script that does basically what you want (also sets WINS server, but you can easily chop the line out).

  And if you're not comfortable just changing configurations with powershell, this version will simply list the servers and their DNS settings:

  function Set-DNSWINS {
  $NICs = Get-WmiObject Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Computer $_ -Filter "IPEnabled=TRUE"
  
  foreach($NIC in $NICs) {echo $_ $NIC.DNSServerSearchOrder}
  }
  
  function Get-FileName {
  $computer = Read-Host "Filename of computer names?"
  return $computer
  }
  
  $f = Get-FileName
  Get-Content $f | foreach {Set-DNSWINS}
  

  The easiest way to run this is to copy and paste all the but last line into a powersheel, enter the name of the file (you'll need a file with the servernames whitespace separated) then copy and paste the last line.

  tearman : I take it this works via WMI so it doesn't have any requisites on the servers themselves right?

  Chris S : Yeah, this is all done via WMI. If you have tightened up the firewall it may fail, but otherwise there's no special requirement for the servers.

  tearman : Epic answer by the way, this is great! Thank you.
  From Chris S

• another answer less work!

  wmic /node:listofnames.txt nicconfig where "ipenabled='true'" call SetDNSServerSearchOrder ("x.x.x.x"),("x.x.x.x")

  From tony roth