[04:05] <SmokinGrunts> Ahoy
[04:05] <SmokinGrunts> I setup postfix as an SMTP local-send-only server earlier today, started to add sasl to make it remote accessible, checked logs, and WHAMBAM logs -> NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[23.227.207.153]: 454 4.7.1 <spameri@tiscali.it>: Relay access denied; from=<spameri@tiscali.it> to=<spameri@tiscali.it> proto=ESMTP helo=<WIN-SSV9OCSUNV0> :o
[04:07] <SmokinGrunts> was within 15 minutes after setting 'inet_interfaces = all'... I had no idea spammers were so active. This is a small server, only for dev and demo purposes. Should I be worried, or was this just a case of the spammer fishing for potential open relays?
[04:07] <SmokinGrunts> I found this from google-fu: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/news.admin.net-abuse.email/FluMw5tx0xo
[04:55] <drab> SmokinGrunts: entire ranges of ips are continuosly scanned at this point for open relays, just like known http vulenrabilities in wp and stuff like that
[04:56] <drab> so I wouldn't worry as long as it's no longer happening. also since relay was denied I don't think it's a problem. plus if the trace is correct it was indeed just a test to see if the relay was open by sending to itself, not even sending actual spam
[04:56] <SmokinGrunts> aye
[04:57] <SmokinGrunts> cool cool, thanks
[07:04] <lordievader> Good morning
[07:06] <brianw> moin
[07:06] <lordievader> o/
[07:52] <cpaelzer> hiho
[07:56] <SmokinGrunts> ahoy-hoy
[09:34] <van777> hey! I've got the server in VMware. I open up a playlist containing russian characters with moc. Some encoding errors in wmware window, but everything fine if i ssh in with putty. How do i change VMware font? Here are 2 screenshots of what's happening -->  https://imgur.com/gallery/wWtEG
[09:51] <SG_Sleeps> van777 search locale issues for vmware
[09:52] <van777> ;)
[09:58] <LeMike> Hi there. I guess I broke it :P I am sitting at a server that simply says: Failed to start {Login Service,Accounts Service} and to raise network interfaces. I wait for hours and it is not givin me a CLI. How do I fix this?
[10:23] <rbasak> LeMike: that sounds like a desktop machine.
[10:25] <rbasak> Hmm, perhaps servers have those too.
[10:37] <LeMike> rbasak: Yee, actually a Futro Thin Client is aside me which I use as a small home server. Dunno what to do with the linux rescue shell to get rid of those problems :/
[13:04] <Jenshae> Salutations
[13:05] <lordievader> o/
[13:08] <joelio> Highdely Ho
[13:09] <Jenshae> http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03519601.pdf <-- I downloaded this after a disk failure. tell me I have to run a Windows program -.-
[13:09] <Jenshae> Is there a way to use something like mdadm to re-build the RAID5 now that the replacement drive is in?
[13:11] <Jenshae> Going AFK for lunch. Been very busy lately :(
[13:12] <joelio> Jenshae: yes, of course
[13:12] <joelio> that's the point of mdadm, to create, monitor and rebuild
[13:13] <joelio> although tbh I'd ZFS all the things now, above raid5 mdadm ;)
[13:14] <joelio> unless you need a root drive, in which case it could be messy if you don't keep track of what you're doing during the setup phase
[13:14] <joelio> but for a /{blah
[13:14] <joelio> then it's absolutely superb as an FS
[13:56] <Jenshae> 4x 500GB regular 7200 rpm SATA drives, slapped together with BIOS FakeRaid.
[13:57] <Jenshae> Since it is an archive server, (or more just for offloading files that should be deleted), I am maximising on storage space.
[14:00] <Jenshae> ... and there is £/$ zero budget because i am building it out of spare hardware to prove its usefulness.
[14:07] <sdeziel> Jenshae: do you need to salvage the data in the fakeraid array or can you start fresh?
[14:08] <joelio> BIOS fakeraid should be avoided imho, it's just software (there's no writeback cache etc) and you lose management/transparency for dodgy firmare and closed blobs
[14:08] <joelio> JBOD them and use mdadm/zfs/btrfs whatever
[14:10] <Jenshae> Getting the machine to just work as a physical demonstration. I went with wiping the drives and starting again, I am in mid install now sdeziel
[14:11] <Jenshae> I have added a ZFS to my home machine, so I am getting more familiar with that.
[14:11] <sdeziel> Jenshae: like joelio, I recommend staying away from fakeraid and use mdadm
[14:13] <sdeziel> Jenshae: for such use cases, I typically partition each drives in 2 with the first partitions aggregated with mdadm and the 2nd partitions aggregated with zfs. This way you can put your rootfs on a mdadm array and get zfs goodness for the rest (bulk storage)
[14:13] <joelio> yea, you can do root zfs but it's a bit of a faff currently
[14:13] <joelio> would love the d-i to have support for it! :)
[14:15] <Jenshae> Have either if you written a newb guide and blogged it on how to step by step do that while installing Ubuntu server?
[14:15] <sdeziel> Jenshae: no, sorry
[14:16] <sdeziel> Jenshae: with such old drives, I really recommend to put your valuable data on a FS that does checksumming (zfs/btrfs)
[14:17] <sdeziel> Jenshae: if you are more adventurous you could even use btrfs for your rootfs (maybe the bigger slice as well). This is officially supported in the installer but I never tried myself
[14:21] <joelio> Jenshae: no sorry, keep meaning to blog on lots of things but time management sucks
[14:32] <Jenshae> There is no valuable data. This is going to be all stuff that should have been deleted but someone might want for some strange historical reason that is not required by law.
[14:35] <joelio> only logs, generally?
[14:36] <sdeziel> zfs compression is really good with logs ;)
[14:37] <albech> just made a copy of my.cnf and changed the settings to allow for another sql instance to run on port 3307 and a different socket. How do I tell the system to also start an instance with the new name?
[14:41] <Jenshae> Nah, this company has been around for donkey's years. We had two servers that I kept eyeing, thinking I wanted to re-use their hardware for something else. Turns out they are on all the time and doing absolutely nothing now.
[14:42] <Jenshae> They are also just dual core 1GB desktops in fancy cases.
[14:42] <Jenshae> So we have copies of letters for clients that are not with us going back 20 years. We only need to hold things like that for 5 years.
[14:43] <Jenshae> CCTV footage of incidents that have probably been settled but we hold it years later in case it gets appealed.
[14:43] <Jenshae> (All of this data will still be in the backup tape cycle)
[14:44] <Jenshae> Auto security updates or Landscape?
[14:45] <dpb1> Depends if you want to stage your updates, or have the automatically applied.  Different levels of risk management.
[14:47] <Jenshae> They can happen any time. I am guessing there will be 1-2 hours of scheduled activity while it writes the day's data to a compressed file on the backup server and then 15-45 minutes of one person at a time dumping or retrieving stuff.
[14:48] <joelio> Jenshae: auto-updates all the way (imho) - but I'd read up and perhaps blacklist kernel updates etc (especially if you've a small /boot partition)
[14:48] <joelio> Landscape if you pay for it already
[14:49] <joelio> it's probably worth it if you've got a bunch of servers and don't want to mess with them too much :)
[14:50] <Jenshae> Nothing is standardised here. :(
[14:53] <Jenshae> Win2003 and SUSE machines are the two rubbish "servers" I just spoke about. There is a Win 2012 R2 server that does our backups (that is all it does, fill up each day and then write to tape). Then there is 2x Win2012 hosts that hold 7x virtual servers, of which 6x are Win 2012 R1 and then there is another SUSE server holding a bespoke operating system that is also holding a bespoke database and application.
[14:54] <Jenshae> I think there is a Solaris server somewhere in the building that handles the building's security. It is managed by a third party but sometimes I have to web portal into it for CCTV footage.
[14:55] <Jenshae> (It would be an ancient machine and nearly dying by my guess of lack of activity and the visible hardware and how awful the app to use it is.)
[14:55] <Jenshae> I recently had to Win IE6 to be able to log into it.
[14:55] <Jenshae> Wine IE6*
[15:11] <Jenshae> All the work points are a mess too. I arrived and there were still WinXP and Vista machines. Turned those into Lubuntu machines. There is Linux iGels and Win7 machines, one Win10 machine. My pet peeve is the variety of monitor sizes, cable types and graphics ports.
[15:12] <Jenshae> The frigging iGels, you order the same model as some of the others but it will arrive with one display port and a DVI-D one vs two DVIs or another one had two display ports.
[15:14] <Jenshae> Then I have to go and ask the guarder of the purse to give me permission to go to petty cash and get some money to then go and buy a few cables from a shop down the road. Can't just order in a large batch to save time and hassle, oh no, that would just cost too much in the short term ... ggggrrrr.
[15:15] <Jenshae> Anyway, since just a mouse or keyboard replacement has to be authorised, I think you get the idea of the sort of mess I work with here.
[15:43]  * joelio passes Jenshae a stress ball
[15:44]  * Jenshae grins
[16:18] <Jenshae> It has gone crazy. It keeps asking for commands whilst doing things.
[16:23] <joelio> ?
[16:24] <Jenshae> Update grub then text written over, root@server#
[16:44] <Jenshae> pm-suspend and pm-hibernate are handy
[16:44] <Jenshae> Back another day. Have a good weekend if I don't see you tomorrow. o7