Sysadmin

wget segfault | wget segmentation fault

13-Jan-201703-Mar-2016

We mirror the Webmin website to bring it somewhat closer to Sweden, and recently I had to move the hosted mirror to another of our servers running Debian 8. All of a sudden, a cron job that had been working for many years went tits …

rsyslogd eats CPU on OpenVZ

13-Jan-201723-Oct-2014

All of a sudden, rsyslogd on an Ubuntu installation running under OpenVZ is using 100% CPU. One alternative is to replace rsyslogd for syslog-ng, but if you want to “fix” rsyslogd instead, here’s how: service rsyslog stop sed -i -e ‘s/^\$ModLoad imklog/#\$ModLoad imklog/g’ /etc/rsyslog.conf service …