I’ve been helping a buddy get his puppet master server setup and he recently ran into a rather interesting error. He had his master server setup and had added a few recent server builds to the mix all from the EPEL repository which installed the 2.6.x version of the client.

When adding an older server, he got the following error message showing up in his logs:

Doing a little googling, it turns out, this is not all that uncommon.

While working on an upgrade from vSphere 4.1u1 to vSphere5.0, I ran into the following error when I got to the upgrade manager portion of the upgrade.

Error 25113.Setup failed to generate the JRE SSL keys.

If you do any sort of googling for this, you’ll find people that suggest looking for openssl.exe and renaming it temporarily. I didn’t have openssl.exe so that wasn’t going to work. Another person gave the old windows “fix” of just reboot the box. Guess what, that didn’t work either.

You know its going to be a bad day when you get the following email:

Did someone hack our website? It looks like a Chinese news listing entry has been added with today’s date.

Ballsack!

Time to roll up the sleeves. How bad is the damage?

From the looks of it, other sites on the web server had not been damaged. Doing a search for modified files found nothing out of the ordinary had been changed. Log files sure but nothing out of the ordinary. A search through the web logs of the site showed that this appeared to be an attack on the Content Management System (CMS) for the site.

In order to make sure I keep track on all my goals, I’m going to check in every quarter and see where I’m at. So seeing as it is the first day of April, time for the 1st quarter review.

Goal #1: Sleep More! With the help of mercuryapp.com, I’ve been able to track my sleep time and so far for 3 months I’m averaging 6.86 hours of sleep a night. I’m shooting for 7+ so I’m not too far off.

We’re doomed to repeat history. Wait…what? Isn’t that the point of history to study it so we DON’T make the same boneheaded mistakes. Yes, that’s exactly why you read history books.

Yet, we are in another round of the IT glory days. Read TechCrunch for 5 minutes and you’ll just be shaking your head. What was the .com boom of the late 90s has become the new app explosion of today. Money is flying at companies that have a cool new app with a bunch of users but NO REVENUE!!!