May 16 2021
You are hosting Mysql or PostgreSQL data directory on iSCSI disks but the service fails to start at server’s boot. The service does not find the directory. However, you can start the service manually if you log on the server once SSH is available. These are logs for Mariadb but they would be similar for […]
Mar 06 2021
I was writing a new Ansible role to upgrade all of my VMs with apt update and apt upgrade. I was still using an old Rancher that only works with docker-ce package up to version 18.06. A first task holds back the package with Ansible Dpkg module, basically an apt hold, as recommended on many […]
Oct 06 2016
Olivier, a friend of mine, had to parse a CSV file and took the opportunity to benchmark the performance of 3 programming languages. The file contains server names and disks he needs to add up into a hash table in order to get the total disk space for each server. He assumes on his […]
Sep 13 2015
Apache configured as a reverse proxy forwards requests to a web backend. But your browser throws an enigmatic 503 error: “Service temporarily unavailable”. The first thing I do is looking at the http logs in /var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log, where I am getting some permission issue:(13)Permission denied: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 192.168.1.250:8080 (*) failed You may […]
Aug 27 2014
Microsoft Exchange traffic can be load-balanced with Microsoft NLB but it requires to set up 4 Exchange servers for the sake that NLB isn’t compatible with Exchange cluster. Most Microsoft guys do not recommend it.Among NLB downsides, Exchange services are monitored with a basic ping, meaning the service is considered to be active even if […]