June 2013

viewvc errors after upgrading subversion

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After upgrading subversion on my svn server, I started seeing this errors from viewvc: An Exception Has Occurred Python Traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/local/viewvc/lib/viewvc.py”, line 4827, in main request.run_viewvc() File “/usr/local/viewvc/lib/viewvc.py”, line 251, in run_viewvc self.rootpath = vclib.svn.canonicalize_rootpath(rootpath) File “/usr/local/viewvc/lib/vclib/svn/__init__.py”, line 39, in canonicalize_rootpath rootpath = _canonicalize_path(rootpath) File “/usr/local/viewvc/lib/vclib/svn/__init__.py”, line 23, in […]

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pg_restore: [custom archiver] could not read from input file: end of file

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I’ve been a fan of PostgreSQL since 2000 when I switched to it from MySQL. I wanted stored procedures and functions. I got that with PostgreSQL. I was used to having such features from my years working with other big databases such as DB2, Oracle, and Sybase. I’ve been moving towards using the custom format

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Authentication tried for dan with correct key but not from a permitted host

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I kept seeing these messages: Jun 12 04:09:18 nyi sshd[94523]: Authentication tried for dan with correct key but not from a permitted host (host=dbclone.example.org, ip=10.6.0.9). Jun 12 04:09:18 nyi sshd[94523]: Authentication tried for dan with correct key but not from a permitted host (host=dbclone.example.org, ip=10.6.0.9). I’ve been seeing them for a long time. How long?

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sshd: error: key_read: uudecode failed

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I started seeing this error: Jun 10 19:12:38 nyi sshd[92208]: error: key_read: uudecode AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIBdX/USEtxnO91Vpujney8gwkq2sRrcU9R6nKAoGv1eNMWrMD9a93kZMjR4fFMAH87g+zyHBftxCsyE0wJX2A0UFgIQsiuOOINkTJMyk\n failed I couldn’t figure it out. Then I searched ~/.ssh/authorized_keys for that string. I found it in there. But the line was incomplete. It looked like I’d deleted the last part of the line. It should end with something like this:

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Bacula – AfterJob: Host key verification failed

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I’ve been moving services from one server to another. Manually. My Bacula server is now running in a FreeBSD jail. I just got ready to copy backups from disk to tape. But one aspect was failing: updating my statistics. After each tape job, I collect statistics on that tape, with respect to tape errors. That

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nagios – check_ping CRITICAL – You need more args!!! Could not open pipe:

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I’ve been moving some services around lately. A server is dying and I need to move stuff off it. Today I managed to move Bacula and Nagios onto a new server. After a short bit of struggle, I had just one service check that was failing: check_ping. Here’s the example: $ /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_ping -H bast.example.org -w

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