textbook example of why open source software is best

So my server was sending me emails such as

Failed to check for updates with the following error message: 
Failed to build transaction: Success - empty transaction

I knew this was from yum-cron which I’d recently setup.
1 google search sent me to bugzilla where a guy already have pinpointed the error in a python script and is kind enough to show a diff on the code.
He also links to his pull request on the actual code repo over at github.
This patch haven’t made it through to my updates repo for my server yet, but since all this is transparent readable code I can patch my own script.

Drown security vulnerability

Protect yourself from drown attack by updating your openssl package.
Redhat patched openssl 1.0.1e

# rpm -q --changelog openssl-1.0.1e-51.el7_2.4.x86_64 | head
* Wed Feb 24 2016 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz@redhat.com> 1.0.1e-51.4
- fix CVE-2016-0702 - side channel attack on modular exponentiation
- fix CVE-2016-0705 - double-free in DSA private key parsing
- fix CVE-2016-0797 - heap corruption in BN_hex2bn and BN_dec2bn

* Tue Feb 16 2016 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz@redhat.com> 1.0.1e-51.3
- fix CVE-2015-3197 - SSLv2 ciphersuite enforcement
- disable SSLv2 in the generic TLS method

goto https://drownattack.com/ for more info

Cluster ssh with nice fonts !

Cluster ssh is super nice, but out of the box it got ugly and small fonts.
Here’s my Cluster ssh config, which I respectfully ripped from the net:

# $HOME/.clusterssh/config
terminal_args=-fa  'DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book' -fs 11
# note these are not consistent with the TTF font selection, so have to 'adjust' accordingly
#terminal_size=80x24
# for terminal_args=-fa  'DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book' -fs 12:
#terminal_size=133x36
# for terminal_args=-fa  'DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book' -fs 11
terminal_size=120x34

Thank you dansnotebook.blogspot.no