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Red Hat Certified Architect - Finally

Finally am able to post this; it's been many years(!) in the making. Sadly the enjoyment doesn't get to last too long as I need to start renewing a number of my certs

  • Derek Morton
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International Dialing with Twilio and FreePBX

Just some quick notes on how I went about getting International Dialing working with my personal FreePBX server and a Twilio Elastic SIP Trunk. Twilio requires E.164 formatted numbers so both the

  • Derek Morton
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Blog Update

Finally have gotten around to updating the blog here with the latest version of Ghost along with a new theme.. Here's to working on keeping it more updated for the next year.

  • Derek Morton
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Even More Malwares!

Well, my malware project at themalwares.com hit the 6 million mark sometime last week.. the scrapers and such are continuing to add new samples all the time. On top of that the

  • Derek Morton
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perf-tools for RHEL 6

I've forked Brendan Gregg's excellent perf-tools repository in order to put in various fixes to ensure compatibility with RHEL/CentOS 6. The fixes shouldn't cause any issues with other non-RHEL 6 releases however

  • Derek Morton
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linux

Chinese BitTorrent DDoS Mitigation

Here lately there's been lots of talk about the Great Firewall of China DNS posioning and inadvertently (?) DDoS'ing a servers all over.. The typical requests look similar to this: 125.77.141.10

  • Derek Morton
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malware

themalwares.com

Been quite a long time coming, but I've finally got a site put together that allows you to search my malware samples. Visit it at the link below: themalwares.com

  • Derek Morton
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malware

New Malware Script

Just commited the new script to submit malware samples to VirusTotal and save the results in MongoDB; find it here. Also have cleaned up the README on the MalwareTools repo to make things

  • Derek Morton
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linux

Ugly one-liner for gzip'ed gzip files

Had to rig up this one-liner to un-screw a situation were logrotate was configured to rotate and compress all files in a directory, including ones that had already been rotated and compressed; this

  • Derek Morton
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linux

Converting VMAX NAA Values

Quick bash script I put together to convert VMAX NAAs into the values seen within PowerPath on Linux hosts. There's a PowerShell script floating around the internet to do the same thing but

  • Derek Morton
1 min read
linux

HBA/bfa bio.c panic on boot

Came across a server with dual Broadcom/QLogic 815 HBAs that was failing to boot with the following error and dropping into debug mode: LOG Firmware heartbeat failure at 0 LOG bfa panic

  • Derek Morton
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linux

raxmon - Malformed Response

From Github Issues Page When using the latest version of raxmon (a.k.a. Rackspace Monitoring CLI) you might get the following error: $ raxmon-entities-list Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/local/

  • Derek Morton
1 min read
linux

apachectl Alternate Location

Quick snippet for when Apache isn't listening on 127.0.0.1 or on an alternative port. On RHEL/CentOS add the following to /etc/sysconfig/httpd: STATUSURL=http://<IP>:<

  • Derek Morton
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aws

awscli 'unknown encoding' error

Just installed the AWS CLI on my Mac and encountered the 'unknown encoding' error when I first tried to use it: $ aws ec2 describe-instances unknown encoding: $ This is caused by the default encoding

  • Derek Morton
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linux

Fixing Cloud Servers stuck at gPXE Boot

With Rackspace Cloud Servers there's currently an issue with PVHVM resizing images smaller that causes them to lose their MBR; when this happens you'll see the following in the Java console: If you

  • Derek Morton
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New Blog Software

Been lazy here recently updating the blog, mainly because Octopress was a pain to create a new post in (see http://octopress.org/docs/blogging/). I've moved the blog over to Ghost and

  • Derek Morton
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linux

Red Hat Certified

Over the last few months I've been working towards passing the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam and I did last week. I already passed my Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam

  • Derek Morton
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linux

salt-cloud & RackConnect

The development versions of salt-cloud and the libcloud project from the Apache Foundation recently added support for deploying RackConnected instances on the Rackspace Public Cloud. Here's how to get it up and running

  • Derek Morton
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linux

bind97 on cPanel

Some Perl module hacking to allow you to use the bind97 packages on CentOS 5 with cPanel. First removing the normal bind packages and installing the bind97 ones: cp -Rf /var/named/ /var/

  • Derek Morton
1 min read
malware

OMG Malwares!!!

Here's a post thats been a very long time coming. The process of sumbitting all my malware samples to VirusTotal has finally completed with a grand total of 2,683,801 unique samples

  • Derek Morton
1 min read
archiveteam

Archiving Time

Well its happening once again, another site has decided to close down/re-brand/whatever, delete all the data and pretend like nobody ever actually used it. Naturally whenever a situation like this goes

  • Derek Morton
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linux

Linux Fun

Today was honestly one of the most mentally exhausting days that I've had in a long time. Rewarding sure as I learned quite a bit, but damn taxing as well. Probably didn't help

  • Derek Morton
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random

Projects Update

As a somewhat typical computer/linux nerd, I've always got a few different and interesting to me personal projects going on. Here's the rundown on some of them. Mate on Fedora Somewhat prompted

  • Derek Morton
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