@momurda said in Building a Basic DRBD Cluster on OpenSuse 12.2:

What is the purpose of 'zypper -remove patterns-openSUSE-minimal_base'
I know what it does, but is it necessary? Does this minimal_base package prevent you from installing certain packages at a later date? Or you just making things nice n neat?

It's been quite some time, but if I remember correctly it interfered with some packages that we needed as the "minimal" blocked adding a bunch of stuff.

Nice deal!

Very good read. I'm sharing your philosophy and like I said yesterday, I'm a console fetishist. You just need to use what you have when you are in a recovery console or when your server just does not have access to that NFS export or SMB share where all your fancy tools and scripts are.

I think it's way more important to understand how things actually work. This will also help a lot when it comes to tracking down errors.

PS: This is not about necro'ing an old thread, but the topic just came up once more.

None of it is very clear.

@DustinB3403 said in Weird TraceRoute Error:

I got timed out at hop 8 along the trace route to 45.63.18.153

That's normal.

@scottalanmiller said in Slow SSH Logins on Linux:

Often remote SSH logins on Linux can experience a lengthy delay. This is often caused by the SSH daemon on the server defaulting to attempting a DNS lookup of the SSH client attempting to connect to it. Typically we do not want this behaviour as client systems often cannot be verified in this manner but awaiting a DNS timeout can be rather annoying. Many systems configure this on by default. I see this in the Red Hat family including RHEL, CentOS, etc.

The fix is simple, just explicetly add the line:

UseDNS no

To the /etc/ssh/sshd_config configuration file. The default is “yes” and there should be a comment to this effect as well. After making the change, simply restart the SSH daemon for the change to take effect.

service sshd restart

Originally found in 2012 on my Linux blog here: http://web.archive.org/web/20140822224153/http://www.scottalanmiller.com/linux/2012/09/02/slow-ssh-logins/

Ran into this the other day. Windows to Linux was pretty slow, but Linux to Linux (using our Bind server) was super fast. Turned off DNS and GSSAPI and it was fine from Windows.

How goes the studying?

@dafyre said in Linux: The Role of DRBD:

@scottalanmiller said in Linux: The Role of DRBD:

I added a header into the main topic list for that. But it is going to be later in the Advanced Topics, section. Oddly, I know of pretty much no standard Linux Administration tomes that cover DRBD. It's so core, very odd that it so often gets missed.

Could it be that most Linux Admin's don't know about it until they go searching for it? ...That's how I found out about it.

You would hope that the people writing the books would know, though!

Seems like the totally free of NextCloud is a pretty big factor. Most of us have pretty tight budgets, so being able to totally demo and test and even deploy NextCloud without further approval is great.

Man that is tiny. And the $9 upgrade looks really nice.