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Fixing grub using dracut Last kernel update was not successful to me. Centos can not boot with next messages:  [ 180.098802] dracut-initqueue[376]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts [ 180.610167] dracut-initqueue[376]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts [ 181.121619] dracut-initqueue[376]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts [ 181.633093] dracut-initqueue[376]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts [ 182.144831] dracut-initqueue[376]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts [ 182.656146] dracut-initqueue[376]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts [ 183.167306] dracut-initqueue[376]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts [ 183.678755] dracut-initqueue[376]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts  Of course simples way  is creating  linux  usb stick ...

History I created a simple application for logistic purpose based on Django, PostgresSQL, and Postgis.  This is a service receiving a position of a truck and place it on the map. Service is really simple and uses a virtual machine with small performance.  The main problem of the current solution is a small performance of this cloud server.  Most of the cloud providers use LAN for attaching virtual server's drives. As result speed of disk I/O is really small.   root@sergiy:/home/serg# fdisk -l Disk /dev/xvda1: 20 GiB, 21474836480 bytes, 41943040 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/xvda2: 1 GiB, 1073741824 bytes, 2097152 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes root@sergiy:/home/serg# hdparm -tT /dev/xvda1 /dev/x...

I'm using virtual server based on Debian Linux for some my free projects.  One of them is based on Postgres with PostGIS extension.   This windy rainy day is a good time for executing some upgrade. Also I would like to add partman extension for partituoning. Checking new version.  Update package list : aptitude update Get: 1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-updates InRelease [145 kB] Get: 2 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease [62.9 kB] Get: 3 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease [63.1 kB]  Check for new version: dpkg-query -l postgresql* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name ...

How to collect information about  host without trivial system command   I'm using a lot of hardware boxes with no limit on distro types and versions.  In this case using system command such as ifconfig has a limited usage.  Also,  system config files have a different path and best way for me is getting information from the kernel. Of course,  I'm using cat command for doing this. Next table has information about hardware. Let me know if something is interesting for you and you know something interesting hardware information in the linux kernel file path information /proc/cpuinfo CPU /proc/meminfo memory /sys/block List of block devices. HDD has sd or hd at the beginning /sys/class/block/{digit}/device/model HDD drive and vendor /sys/block/{digit}/size HDD size  /sys/block List of block devices. HDD has sd or hd at the beginning /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:{digit}/net System name of the network card /sys/device...

Solving problem related to systemd process I like postfix.   This is really smart and secure mail server. I'm helping above  dozen clients around the world and  tunning  postfix is really fun task. This morning I was downgrading postfix  to the stable version for one of the my friends and come across interesting issue.  root@newserver:/etc/init.d# systemctl status postfix ● postfix.service Loaded: masked (/dev/null; bad) Active: inactive (dead) since вт 2017-06-13 14:35:41 EEST; 1h 48min ago Main PID: 25145 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) чер 13 14:47:09 newserver systemd[1]: Stopped postfix.service. чер 13 14:47:29 newserver systemd[1]: Stopped postfix.service. чер 13 14:58:22 newserver systemd[1]: Stopped postfix.service. чер 13 14:58:23 newserver systemd[1]: Stopped postfix.service. чер 13 15:05:20 newserver systemd[1]: Stopped postfix.service. чер 13 15:29:06 newserver systemd[1]: Stopped postfix.service. чер 13 15:29:06 ne...

Detecting MySQL loading I've seen strange and randomize increasing  of the  MySQL db loading but mytop did not help to sorted out with this issue. I'm not Mike Tyson and my reaction is more slow then CPU. If I don't catch this dynamically I will catch this statistically.  Main idea Select active request by cron and write it ti file. After this statistic analyze for long period of time sort  this problem out.  Selecting information  from  MySQL  Please add python mod MySQLdb  and set correct credentials up. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 import os , MySQLdb def main (): """ checking process list and save it to file""" LOGFILENAME = 'dbusage.log' MYSQLUSERNAME = 'root' MYSQLPASSWORD = 'password' MYSQLHOST = 'localhost' logfile = open (LOGFILENAME, 'a' ) mydb = MySQLdb . connect(host = MYSQLHOST, ...

Using request library for Pirates  Few years ago using urllib2 was a simplest way for sending and receiving  HTTP Request. But now I'm using  Request library . This  is more simple and powerful. Unfortunately Request is not include in default install and Pip  should be used .  Installation  Procedure is really simple  and near to standard : MacBook-Pro-Hohlov:pirates skhohlov $ virtualenv ./env New python executable in ./env/bin/python2.7 Also creating executable in ./env/bin/python Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done. MacBook-Pro-Hohlov:pirates skhohlov $ source ./env/bin/activate ( env ) MacBook-Pro-Hohlov:pirates skhohlov $ ( env ) MacBook-Pro-Hohlov:pirates skhohlov $ ( env ) MacBook-Pro-Hohlov:pirates skhohlov $ pip install requests Collecting requests Using cached requests-2.13.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl Installing collected packages: requests Successfully installed requests-2.13.0 You are using pip version 7.1.2, however ...