Many of you may have already read the news, but for those of you that have not here is a recap. But first, let me state that we have tested all of our customer’s servers, and none have been compromised.

An email was sent to the fedora-announce mailing list, it started with, “Last week we discovered that some Fedora servers were illegally accessed. The intrusion into the servers was quickly discovered, and the servers were taken offline.”

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Many of our customers have servers located with Softlayer. According to this thread (softlayer account required):

“There’s an ongoing attack directed to Network Solutions from a number of providers. Currently the attacker is spoofing the source addresses making it quite difficult to track down. As such Network Solutions requested that we [Softlayer] block all outbound traffic to their netblock until further notice. They have also blocked all of our IP space inbound to their network at their provider’s edge.”

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We ran into an issue where an init script was missing and we needed to restore the file.  The backup (of course) did not include the file we needed.  We had to download the package, extract the contents, and move the init script back into place.  Below are the commands used:

DEB:

$ dpkg-deb -x <package.deb> /restore/dir

RPM:

$ rpm2cpio <package.rpm> | cpio -idv

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MNX Solutions works on many UNIX based systems, one of which is IXOS (now called OpenText).

We needed to migrate from WORM (9.1GB) media to a hard disk based configuration for performance, scalability and disaster recovery purposes. Below is the high level procedure I used during the migration to migrate from WORM to HDSK, on IXOS EconServer 5.5C..

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We had a client with 3000+ named users, and each of them were configured without authentication for smtp relaying, the qmail/vpopmail system they were migrating from had “pop before smtp” authentication. Well, we wanted to have as little disruption as possible for the migration so we needed to enable this same feature in Zimbra.

It is still planned to cutover the clients to SMTP Authentication, but this allows for a somewhat smoother transition.

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You can display the current root password for mysql (if the host is running ensim), by using the following command.

# ensim-python -c "import sys;sys.path.append(\"/usr/lib/opcenter/mysql\");import mysqlbe;print mysqlbe.read_mysqlpass()"


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We ran into an issue when installing Fantastico. After clicking the installation button, everything seemed to download just fine, but every time you go back to the Fantastico link it says it is not installed.

It turns out, Fantastico uses wget to download files. wget is called with the ‘-P’ option, which is not honored in the recent version of wget. In order to get around this, I found the following post useful: http://www.netenberg.com/forum/index.php?topic=5430.0

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