Scott Keck-Warren's questions

I'm setting up a new web server that hosts a dozen virtual hosts on Ubuntu 12.4 using Apache 2.2.22 with one config file per site. I created all the configuration files all at once and ran a2ensite * to enable them all at once. When I reloaded the configuration it failed and after restarting apache I found the following error message in my error.log:

Oops, no RSA or DSA server certificate found for 'server.host.name:0'?!

Most of the results for this error message are years old that don't fix the problem or are bugs that have been fixed https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31709

I have a RHEL 5 server that recently ran out of disk space and now our Logwatch for the server reports the following disk usage (I think this is the last accurate night before the /var partition filled up):

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
 /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                        62G  3.8G   55G   7% /
 /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol00
                       198G  185G  2.8G  99% /var
 /dev/cciss/c0d0p1      99M   24M   70M  26% /boot

If I log into the server and run df -h manually I get the following result:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                       62G   14G   46G  23% /
/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol00
                      198G  174G   14G  93% /var
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1      99M   24M   70M  26% /boot

I checked /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf and found that the temp directory is /var/cache/logwatch but that directory contains no items. Does anyone know what would cause logwatch to display stale data like this?

Is there a tool that can be used to determine the maximum IOPS on my Datastores? Due to the way the SAN is configured (poorly by the installer) it's difficult to calculate this and we want to know where the ceiling is. It looks like we have lots of headroom but we want a way to very this.

I'm using the configuration below to use vhost_alias_module to more easily manage my hosted setup. I want sites to be structured like the following /sites/domain.com/w/w/w/ which with the configuration below works fine. However, if I attempt to access domain.com instead of www.domain.com this falls apart. How do I fix this?

Update: I want request for domain.com to automatically be directed to www.domain.com. It would be fine if this required a 403 redirect (I think that would be preferred from a SEO perspective) .

LoadModule vhost_alias_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_vhost_alias.so
<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin [email protected]

        DocumentRoot /sites/
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
        <Directory /sites/>;
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>
    UseCanonicalName Off
    VirtualDocumentRoot /sites/%2+/%1.1/%1.2/%1.3+

</VirtualHost>

I've been having a random problem over the last couple years and I can't figure what causing it. Every so often a 10.5 computer's name will have a set of parenthesis concatenated to the end of the computer's name with a number in the parenthesis [ i.e computername(1) ]. Usually, it's just the number 2 or 3 but I have seen it go as high as 3000 something.

The computer's name shows up fine in ARD but the hostname command returns the name of the computer hyphen number (computername-2).

Renaming the computer in the Sharing Preference pane or reinstalling the OS fixes the problem. For normal day to day operations it's not a problem but it has been throwing our inventory system off after we reinstall the OS. I'm not sure when it happens because it's so hard to notice so I've been unable to find any helpful log messages.

Has anyone seen this behavior before and better yet does anyone know of a solution?

Thanks,

We are having problems with viruses sneaking through our virus scanner and onto our NAS and I want to scan the whole NAS. If I attempt to run a scan on the whole drive using the GUI for Forefront Endpoint Protection it sits at the initial screen without progressing. I can however scan a single smaller folder without a problem. I could sit here and scan each folder individually but with 100+ folders it's going to take a while.

My hope was that I could initiate a scan on the whole drive or each folder through the command line but the command line option will only accept a file.

Is there a way to fix this? I'm assuming I could start the GUI on a Friday and let it run but if it doesn't finish there wouldn't be a way to resume the scan.

I'm trying to determine how to exclude values from an array based on a CSV file. This is the best option I have so far:

$arrIgnore = import-csv "ignore.csv"

foreach($objIgnore in $arrIgnore){
    $objAll = $objAll | where {$_.Name -ne $objIgnore.Name}
}

This doesn't filter out a single item from the array. If I write out the problem with the values in strings:

$objAll = $objAll | where {$_.Name -ne "value1"}
$objAll = $objAll | where {$_.Name -ne "value2"}

It works correctly. I'm sure I'm making a stupid mistake but I can't figure it out. :-)

We are looking into using SharePoint 2010 to replace our external website. We think we can use Foundation for this and just hack up the SharePoint CSS to make it look like want but it seems the information on this is lacking.

Has anyone done this successfully and can you point me in the direction of some documentation on how to do it?

I work for a school district and am implementing SharePoint 2010. We are trying to determine how to create a hand in (students can drop files into but not view and staff members can view) document library or folder.

Has anyone tried doing something like this or is there a better way?

Thanks,

We have a Windows Server 2k8 server running DNS services for our domain. Some of the forward looks up don't have reverse lookups and some of the reverse lookups don't have forward lookups. DNS has been poorly managed (pre-me) and this seems to be a situation of too many cooks and a problem we had with a runaway script a couple years ago (also pre-me). Does anyone have a quick way (hopefully scripted) that we can verify and fix these?

We are looking for a solution to automatically shutdown server room equipment in a controlled process, based on priority, automatically during a power outage and on demand if necessary. We would also like to be able to power the servers back on in a controlled manor.

We have a mixture of equipment (physical and virtual servers and multiple types of UPS/storage array/server vendors) and no budget for this :-) so even a partial solution would be helpful. We hope to get a generator but we have been hoping for years now.

I'm working on our login script for our OS X 10.5 deployment and I want to redirect the user's Documents and Desktop directories to their network home directory. In the login script I have a line that attempts deletes the old folders before creating the link but I get an permissions error. If I try to delete the directories through the finder I get the following error message:

""Folder Name" can't be modified or deleted because it is required by Mac OS X".

Is there some way to allow me to remove these?

I am working on a script that verifies a computer is connection correctly to both our AD domain and our OpenDirectory server. I bind to the two services using dsconfigad and dsconfigldap and then set the search path using the following commands:

/usr/bin/dscl /Search -create / SearchPolicy CSPSearchPath
/usr/bin/dscl /Search -append / CSPSearchPath "/Active Directory/All Domains"
/usr/bin/dscl /Search/Contacts -create / SearchPolicy CSPSearchPath
/usr/bin/dscl /Search/Contacts -append / CSPSearchPath "/Active Directory/All Domains"
/usr/bin/dscl /Search -append / CSPSearchPath "/LDAPv3/opendirectoryserver.local"
/usr/bin/dscl /Search/Contacts -append / CSPSearchPath "/LDAPv3/opendirectoryserver.local"

It's easy to verify and unbind the computer from the domains but how to I list the SearchPath to check if I need to reset it?

Can anyone recommend a utility (hopefully cheap/free) that will allow me to search across multiple cifs shares for multiple file name/types and then delete them? We are running into problems with our users saving files they aren't supposed to be and want to "clean house".

Is there a way to force users to accept an AUP the first time they log into an OSX computer? We want to keep them from doing anything until they accept and if they don't they will be logged out.

I moved a VMWare client (using the VMWare vCenter Converter) from a VMWare Workstation 7 host to an ESX V3.5 host. Everything seems to have gone correctly but when I power on the VMWare image the network devices don't load. I have tried removing the network device and re-adding it but always get the same results.

If I perform an lshw -C network it shows the that the networking is disabled.

I am trying to get my tiger clients to bind to an open directory server on leopard.

I am able to bind the computer to the directory and when I look in Workgroup Manager the computer shows up correctly but none of the settings show up on the client. If I attempt to unbind the client from Directory Access on the client it removes but the client pops up a message that it "Could not contact the LDAP server to unbind. Would you like to forcibly remove this configuration?".

I am able to get leopard clients to bind successfully and pull down their settings (OD servers themselves are pulling login window changes).

If (while bound) I use dscl and attempt to cd into the OD I receive a message that the path is invalid.