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expect script for ssh password prompt

Submitted by sandip on Fri, 07/16/2010 - 10:15.

Below is a sample expect script to handle ssh password prompt should you not get the ssh keys to be working between hosts:

#!/usr/bin/expect -f

set host XXX
set user XXX
set password XXX
set remote_path XXX
set local_path XXX

# disables the timeout, so script waits as long as it takes for the transfer
set timeout -1

# call rsync
spawn rsync -av -e ssh $user@$host:$remote_path $local_path

# avoids that if the output is to large, the earlier bytes won't be fotgotten
match_max 100000

# we're expecting the password prompt, we use a pattern so it can be anything that contains password: or Password
expect  "*?assword:" { send "$password\r"}

# send a newline to make sure we get back to the command line
send -- "\r"

# wait for the end-of-file in the output
expect eof

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Show swap label

Submitted by sandip on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 11:43.

blkid can be used to display the swap label:

# blkid /dev/md2
/dev/md2: TYPE="swap" LABEL="SWAP-md2"

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smartctl notes

Submitted by sandip on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 10:25.

Below is a list of smartctl commands I frequently use to quickly verify disk health and status, specially when you have smartd logging errors to messages log file.

  • Print all SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) information for drive /dev/sda (Primary Master).

    smartctl -a /dev/sda

  • Enable SMART on device.

    smartctl --smart=on /dev/sda

  • Get info about the device:

    smartctl -i /dev/sda

  • Show the capabilities of drive. Also provides status when tests are being carried out.

    smartctl -c /dev/sda

  • Basic health status:

    smartctl -H /dev/sda

  • Display attributes. The attributes to look out for failing disk is Reallocated_Sector_Ct, Reallocated_Event_Count, Current_Pending_Sector and Offline_Uncorrectable. Their RAW_VALUE should normally be "0".

    smartctl -A /dev/sda

  • Immediate offline test which updates attributes value. Good to run after a badblocks fsck check before checking on the attributes values.

    smartctl -t offline /dev/sda

  • Run a thorough long test if you see suspect attributes with -A option as mentioned above.

    smartctl -t offline /dev/sda

  • Examine self-test log. Shows if tests failed or passed.

    smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda

  • Display most recent error log.

    smartctl -l error /dev/sda

There are more examples in man smartctl.

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Non-desctructive read-write badblocks disk check

Submitted by sandip on Wed, 07/14/2010 - 17:14.

Below command can be run on unmounted partitions to do a disk check of badblocks. Use -p if you need to automatically fix issues. Single "c" will only do a badblock read test.

e2fsck -vfcc -C 0 /dev/sdb4

"-C 0" -- displays progress
"v" -- verbose output
"f" -- force check
"cc" -- read-write test

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resend all mails in sendmail queue

Submitted by sandip on Sun, 07/11/2010 - 23:31.

As root you can redeliver all mail in the mail server queue via:

sendmail -v -q

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mismatch_cnt is not 0

Submitted by sandip on Sun, 07/04/2010 - 21:02.

Mismatch_cnt (/sys/block/md#/md/mismatch_cnt) is the number of unsynchronized blocks in the raid.

Not much of an issue if this is reported on raid-0 or raid-1 and can be ignored. See bugzilla report: Bug 566828.

The repair is to rebuild the raid:

echo repair >/sys/block/md#/md/sync_action

This does not reset the count, but if you force a check after the rebuild is complete:

check >/sys/block/md#/md/sync_action

Count should return to zero. Verify with:

cat /sys/block/md#/md/mismatch_cnt

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Upgrade CentOS 5.4 to 5.5 for OpenVZ containers

Submitted by sandip on Fri, 07/02/2010 - 23:38.

Edit "/vz/template/centos/5/{ARCH}/config/yum.conf", and change the base and updates repositories as below:

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#released updates
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

Do a `vzyum {VEID} clean all`.

List updates:

vzyum {VEID} list updates

Update:

vzyum {VEID} update

Confirm that all VEs' have been updated to 5.5 with:

cat /vz/root/{VEID}/etc/redhat-release

You should see "CentOS release 5.5 (Final)".

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