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Apology for possible disruption this morning

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 2:01 am
by Fred
Well, I'm ashamed to admit that I let the server run out of disk this morning, or perhaps better this last three years. It was like that for about 3 hours in total. I've resolved it and am working towards eliminating a repeat performance. Apologies if you tried to post this morning and could not.

Re: Apology for possible disruption this morning

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 2:40 am
by Fred
Server is working super hard this morning. bzip2 is doing overtime. scp is not sleeping. md5sum is gasping for breath.

Disk space is on the rise, and rapidly!

A few causes to sort out, getting through them gradually. Should be in good shape before COB today.

Re: Apology for possible disruption this morning

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 3:54 am
by Fred
146.185.251.139 < This Russian IP has been hitting half a dozen of my sites every 10 seconds each for a long time. Now blocked with:

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iptables -A INPUT -s 146.185.251.139 -j DROP
That ought to slow the rate of disk usage significantly... :-/

Needs a better fix, though. Will have to find time in the coming months.

EDIT and these:

121.99.154.238
89.216.45.218

Re: Apology for possible disruption this morning

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 5:19 am
by Fred
Over 4 hours spent, final result, over half of the disk is free, a few problems have been identified and a partial fix has been put in place for one of them. Should be good for another 3 years :-p I jest. I'll put some further time into cleaning this up later in the winter after the pressure is off.

Re: Apology for possible disruption this morning

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 6:52 am
by Fred
Did as many updates as I could afford to, too. Still a few easy chores to take care of, then a few slightly painful/annoying ones. Gotta do them sometime.