Monthly Archives: December 2012

Backup Status – 12/07/2012

ShareA: Running occasional error 23 “Result too large (34)” ShareB: Running ShareC: Running occasional error 23 “Result too large (34)” QBServer: Running 62% disk space available Company: Running kforum: Running Kforumhost: Running Kfserver01: Running

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Email on Kforumhost and ShareC

Configured post fix on kforumhost to relay though the admin Gmail account. Noticed logwatch mails from ShareC going only to admin@learninginmotion.net.Checked aliases files and that looks right. Ran newaliases, just in case I forgot before.

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Perl Scripting Fun: Building an array of filenames

Using a script to count login activities in a KF log file. I wanted to effectively go through all the *.log?? files, ignoring zipped files. Finally settled on: my $logpath=”/var/log/kforum”; chdir($logpath) or die “$!”; @files = glob “*.log *.log.[0-9] *.log.[0-9][0-9]”;

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Credit Card Processing

Helped Erica fumble through processing a CC order. Her instructions have old login info. Authorize.net, auto-settled to purchase, which made instructions difficult for Erica to follow. Part of the instructions include filling out an old-style CC slip. Not sure if … Continue reading

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KnowledgeForum Serial Number Generator

It turns out that the SN Gen app was on www2. I was able to grab the files and copy them to Transfer. Files are: /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/gensernum.cgi /Library/WebServer/Documents/license/cal.htm /Library/WebServer/Documents/license/calendar.htm /Library/WebServer/Documents/license/kforumsn.txt Need to tweak firewall (ipfw) to secure it now.    

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Fun with iptables

In CentOS 6, on backwater, iptables was not starting cleanly. Found a patch for the init script. Create a file named centos.iptables.patch that contains: — 5350.orig.sh 2011-05-27 19:58:32.000000000 +0100 +++ 5350.sh 2011-05-27 19:57:32.000000000 +0100 @@ -120,6 +120,12 @@ for i in … Continue reading

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Setting up Nagios on Backwater

The first thing I wanted to do was deal with the web server. I didn’t want apache serving any pages other than nagios. I decided to redirect everything to techmentor.com. To do this I has to allow overrides int the main conf … Continue reading

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