Fix the Meltdown on a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora/Oracle/Scientific Linux

How to Fix the Meltdown on a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora/Oracle/Scientific Linux Always keep backups. So backup now to an offsite location. Note the Linux kernel version running the following command: Fix the Meltdown on a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora/Oracle/Scientific Linux Type the following yum command: You must reboot your Linux server using shutdown/reboot command: Run the following dnf command if … Read more

Meltdown And Spectre Security Flaws

Articles and Information regarding the Meltdown And Spectre Security Flaws Links: https://meltdownattack.com/ https://hothardware.com/news/researchers-disclose-meltdown-and-spectre-cpu-vulnerabilities https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ Patches: VMware https://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2018/000397.html https://esxi-patches.v-front.de/ESXi-5.5.0.html#2017-09-14 How To’s Fix the Spectre on a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora/Oracle/Scientific Linux Fix the Meltdown on a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora/Oracle/Scientific Linux

IPV6 Error Google Email

I recently received an error when sending an email to google: The fix is to disable IPv6 in CentOS and postfix Resources: https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS6#head-d47139912868bcb9d754441ecb6a8a10d41781df https://www.thegeekdiary.com/centos-rhel-7-how-to-disable-ipv6/ https://serverfault.com/questions/732187/sendmail-can-not-deliver-to-gmail-ipv6-sending-guidelines-regarding-ptr-record For Plesk: https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002922789-How-to-disable-IPv6-addresses-on-a-Plesk-server-

Diagnosing Network Issues with MTR

On CentOS and Fedora systems you will want to issue the following commands to update repositories, upgrade installed packages, and install the MTR program: To test the route and connection quality of traffic to the destination host example.com, run the following command from the desired source host: Reading MTR Reports Because MTR reports contain a … Read more

Mount Slaved Drive

Sometimes your OS needs to be reinstalled by your datacenter. This means that you need to mount the slaved drive in order to copy the data to the new OS drive. Here is a typical example: Login to the server and run the following to see whats mounted: As we can see above, there is … Read more