Beutelevision

by Thomas Beutel

Category: Bugs

Leap Second on 6/30/2015 Caused mysqld Process To Consume CPU

This morning I got a notification that mysqld was consuming on average 35% of the CPU on one my servers. This was strange because this particular server doesn’t even use MySQL regularly. It’s there only to serve a rarely used legacy table. A quick look with “show processlist” confirmed that there were no queries running. […]

Patch old Fedora 8 server for Shellshock Bash bug

I had an old Fedora 8 server running legacy code that I needed to patch for the Shellshock Bash bug. I proved that bash was vunerable by running this command: env X=”() { :; } ; echo busted” /bin/bash -c “echo stuff” I saw the word “busted” in the output, meaning I needed to upgrade […]