I have a server running AIDE, and a cron job that runs executes a bash script and sends an email alert out. It is still a WIP, but I can’t get the script to run properly. When the script is executed, my output file defined here /sbin/aide –check > /tmp/$AIDEOUT is still an empty file. … Read more
So this might be an obvious question, but I am managing several servers over a network and I would like to be able to find out what type of connector each server is using (i.e. SATA, SCSI, IDE, etc…) without powering off the machine and looking inside physically. I have tried to use smartctl –scan … Read more
Installing AIDE needs to follow by a init proces. aide: pkg: – installed Now the following commands need to run only once: /usr/sbin/aide –config=/etc/aide.conf –init mv -f /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new.gz /var/lib/aide/aide.db.gz How to manage this in a state file? Answer I usually do something like this: run aide once after installation: cmd.run: – name: usr/sbin/aide –config=/etc/aide.conf –init … Read more
I want to migrate a IDE-using, LVM-based KVM guest running RHEL 6.5. I found this steps in this page: 1) Run virsh edit . From there, edit the config file and adjust all lines of <target dev=’hda’ bus=’ide’/> so they look like this <target dev=’vda’ bus=’virtio’/> Furthermore, remove all <address type …/> lines so that … Read more
Per this post, Newer versions of Ubuntu (including 14.04) come with two packages for AIDE: aide, with the aide command and manual page, and little else aide-common, with a wrapper around that command, configuration files with rules, and cron configuration files that will cause AIDE to be run nightly If your AIDE is bundled like … Read more
I have question regarding RAID 1. Can I setup software RAID 1 after having installed the first drive and setup ubuntu 12? I know that during server install and partitioning I can select RAID and setup then, but what I am not clear on is how in the world to setup RAID 1 after the … Read more
I have two separate controllers, SATA and PATA. I would like to rename drives connected to the PATA to hd[a-z], and their partitions to hd[a-z][0-9]. # udevadm info -a -p /sys/block/sdd […] looking at device ‘[…]/target8:0:1/8:0:1:0/block/sdd’: KERNEL==”sdd” SUBSYSTEM==”block” […] looking at parent device ‘[…]/target8:0:1’: KERNELS==”target8:0:1″ SUBSYSTEMS==”scsi” […] looking at parent device ‘[…]’: KERNELS==”0000:02:00.1″ SUBSYSTEMS==”pci” DRIVERS==”pata_jmicron” … Read more
I have a server configured with AIDE and I’m trying to tune out false positives. I received an alert this morning that a file had been added to a folder that I believe should only alert on ACL changes, unless I’m misunderstanding something. Here are the relevant parts of the config file: … # Access … Read more
I have a Linux server (CentOS 5.5) that has two identical IDE hard drives. I’ve used software RAID (mdadm) to create mirrors for each filesystem, so that either hard drive could fail and no data would be lost. Today one of my hard drives failed. The whole point of RAID should be to allow the … Read more
This is in the System Event log (Windows Server 2008) ATAPI Event 11 “The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort2.” It is probably a hardware problem, but I’m not sure how to determine that for sure. The machine still works most of the time, but it locks up at random. Sometimes at boot time, … Read more
