by Pedro M. S. Oliveira | Nov 11, 2012 | Linux
It’s been a while since I last wrote and today I won’t write much either, I’ll just leave an update on the TOR rpm packages for RHEL 6 and it’s clones.
Cheers,
Pedro M. S. Oliveira
Binary:
tor-0.2.2.39-tor.0.rh6_3.x86_64.rpm
Source:
tor-0.2.2.39-tor.0.rh6_3.src.rpm
by Pedro M. S. Oliveira | Aug 23, 2012 | Linux

For my personal reference (from http://jeff.blogs.ocjtech.us/2008/05/how-to-re-scan-scsi-bus-on-linux.html)
How to re-scan the SCSI bus on Linux:
echo “- – -” > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan
Update: Tim Verhoeven has a more complete description of the re-scanning process.
http://misterd77.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-scan-scsi-bus-with-26-kernel.html
by Pedro M. S. Oliveira | Mar 17, 2012 | Linux

While tuning and benchmarking an HP backup device (HPD2D backup system) I needed to estimate the average file size of the IMAP server storage.
You may think I could just count the number of files and the divide the used space by the number of files, but that wasn’t the case because I didn’t want all the files to count, in this case I just needed the maildir files that have the email content.
So I did a little script (just a command line) using gawk to do it for me:
find /home/vmail -type f -name [0-9]* -exec ls -l {} \; | gawk '{sum += $5; n++;} END {print sum/n;}'
First I find all the files that starts with a number on the base directory of my dovecot server (IMAP storage), and the I need to list them as the size info is needed.
Second I’ve a little gawk script that will do the sum and division.
Let me say this took a few hours as the storage holding the files has 8TB of data.
Well hope this will help some1 else.
Cheers,
Pedro
by Pedro M. S. Oliveira | Mar 9, 2012 | Linux
Hi!
About a year ago I’ve setup some linux RHEL 6 with multipath access to an HP EVA storage.
Today I needed to do it again, and to do so i needed to list all the path available to the storage device, here’s my command line (hope it helps someone else) to list all the path and volumes:
ls /dev/sd* | grep -E -v '[0-9]' | while read D ; do F=$(echo $D) ; \
echo -n $F ; echo -n " " ; scsi_id --page=0x83 --whitelisted --device=$F | \
sort -k 2 ; done | sort -k 2
The output should be something like this:
/dev/sda 3600508b1001c927a634cedb90322b49e
/dev/sdb 3600508b4000744ff0000a00001fd0000
/dev/sdf 3600508b4000744ff0000a00001fd0000
/dev/sdj 3600508b4000744ff0000a00001fd0000
/dev/sdn 3600508b4000744ff0000a00001fd0000
/dev/sdd 3600508b4000744ff0000a000025c0000
/dev/sdh 3600508b4000744ff0000a000025c0000
/dev/sdl 3600508b4000744ff0000a000025c0000
/dev/sdp 3600508b4000744ff0000a000025c0000
/dev/sde 3600508b4000744ff0000a000025f0000
/dev/sdi 3600508b4000744ff0000a000025f0000
/dev/sdm 3600508b4000744ff0000a000025f0000
/dev/sdq 3600508b4000744ff0000a000025f0000
/dev/sdc 3600508b4000744ff0000a00002660000
/dev/sdg 3600508b4000744ff0000a00002660000
/dev/sdk 3600508b4000744ff0000a00002660000
/dev/sdo 3600508b4000744ff0000a00002660000
As you can see I’ve one available disk on this server, actually this one is a RAID1 (HW) config (sda), 16 paths to my storage device, that delivers 4 different volumes (4 paths to each volume).
Sometime later I’ll discuss the multipath configuration but for now i just wanted to leave the command line that help me list all the paths ids.
Cheers,
Pedro Oliveira
by Pedro M. S. Oliveira | Mar 2, 2012 | Linux
Hi,
Recently I installed a tor relay server but I couldn’t find the rpm for Scientific Linux, so i decided to get the source code and copile it myself, even better i decided to make the RPM.
I’m really short on time so I didn’t create a repo for it (if someone out there vulunters to help maintaining the repo I’ll do it)
For now here’s the rpm, enjoy.
Pedro M. S. Oliveira
[download id=”3″]
PS – For those of you that doesn’t know what tor project is you may check https://www.torproject.org/