I’ve been bitten multiple times with the SLES service pack upgrade routine – with Red Carpet Enterprise (ouch – that’s a long time ago) and all of the various permutations of update tooling since.
Happy to say that SLES 12 SP1 to SLES 12 SP3 was zero fuss, fast and efficient. Less than five minutes per server on Azure and around 30 seconds of planned outage.
Good job SUSE team!
Woke up to a whole pile of uptime alarms flagging that various websites were not “up” and responding. Azure, Jetpack, Cloudflare – something was clearly wrong.
As you can see from the Apache access logs – hundreds of thousands of hits per minute from the same IP address range – 185.188.204.x
Easy fix to create a deny rule in Azure to block this. I don’t think CloudFlare was touching it.
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Watching the logs for this now.
AH00060: seg fault or similar nasty error detected in the parent process
Since I wrote this post (a long, long time ago) – Office 365 now adds support for creating a trusted connector between your Linux/postfix environment and Office 365.
Much, much easier than before.
So as a reminder for me next time:
Sometimes life is not about technology.
Tumble dryer stopped heating – so take it apart, realise thermal fuse is blown. Clean all of the dust and lint out – reassemble – it works for a few minutes.
Repeat and rinse. This time replace thermal fuse, thermostat and heating element. Same again.
Third time run the vent pipe cleaner up the pipe – and there’s a birds nest in the vent pipe. Desiccated dead bird and all.
Moral of the story – tumble dryer problems – always clean and clean the vent just to be extra sure.
Switched 12 year old Pentium II to a Pentium Core 2 for the firewall box.
Also moved from spinning disk to SSD – and it’s running a lot cooler.
Fun today as a result of this.
SYSVOL and NETLOGON shares not being created correctly on new DC – so much fun.
Some notes for later.
App Service Editor is incredible.
Uploading webfonts (woff/woff2) requires that wp-config.php has
define(‘ALLOW_UNFILTERED_UPLOADS’, true);
set for the short time.
Serving woff/woff2 fonts requires that MIME types are put in place.
Add this to web.config under system.webserver. https://blogs.iis.net/richma/adding-mime-types-to-your-windows-azure-web-site
<staticContent>
<mimeMap fileExtension=”.woff” mimeType=”application/x-font-woff” />
<mimeMap fileExtension=”.woff2″ mimeType=”application/x-font-woff2″ />
</staticContent>
Need to go research the phpmailer issues more.
The following NEW package is going to be installed:
libncurses6
The following packages are going to be upgraded:
aaa_base dbus-1 dbus-1-32bit gd hwinfo ImageMagick kernel-default
kernel-default-base libcares2 libesmtp libMagickCore1 libMagickWand1 mailx
ntp release-notes-sles sg3_utils sudo tar timezone vim vim-base vim-data w3m
xorg-x11-libs xorg-x11-libs-32bit xorg-x11-libX11 xorg-x11-libX11-32bit
xorg-x11-libXfixes xorg-x11-libXfixes-32bit xorg-x11-libXrender
xorg-x11-libXrender-32bit xorg-x11-libXv xorg-x11-libXv-32bit zlib zlib-32bit
Looks like a pretty large update this month:
The following packages are going to be upgraded:
apache2-mod_php53 bind-libs bind-utils crash crash-eppic curl gd gtk2
gtk2-32bit gtk2-lang kernel-default kernel-default-base ksh libcurl4
libjasper libnetpbm10 libtiff3 libtiff3-32bit libxml2 libxml2-32bit
libxml2-python mysql mysql-client netpbm parted php53 php53-ctype php53-curl
php53-dom php53-gd php53-iconv php53-json php53-mysql php53-pdo php53-sqlite
php53-tokenizer php53-xmlreader php53-xmlwriter php53-zlib python-setuptools
timezone wget yast2-core
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