Posts made by jmoore

Right sorry , I do everything in Fedora/Centos. The syntax will be different then

That actually sounds like the service is not running or responding to me but do check that with the command above.

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I am not sure what that means either. Have you started the mysql.service back up? If you do a [systemctl status mysql.service] from the terminal does it say its active(in green letters) and running?

Jeff,

I am not a mysql guru either but to me this sounds like you are running out of memory from hackers/bored kids. I have seen this on my own servers. You can check your logs, usually at /var/log/mysql ( I believe is the path). Do a [tail -100 mysql.log] and see if you have line after line of something that like (Post Get HTTP from weird IP addresses). When they constantly do their scanning on ranges of IP addresses they can do some weird stuff that stresses your database out. I doubt you are being targeted in any way because they are just hitting everything with constant barrage of scans. I would run MySql Tuner from that link which also has a guide on how to do it. That should help. Good Luck

@scottalanmiller said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:

AnyONE is a vulnerability if they don't maintain their systems. The risk is the person.

You remember my post about doing Windows updates right? Where I asked departments to put in work orders so I could keep their systems up to day on a regular schedule and have documentation in the ticket system that it was done. This is the same person that said no to that. I have learned from dealing with Wordpress and everything else on my websites how important to stay as updated as possible. I carry this thinking with me to my work too

@scottalanmiller said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:

Yeah, that kind of makes it worse if he doesn't know what a wiki is, right?

Lol well I'm sure he knows, he is a smart guy. i just meant that he might not be aware of the capabilities with all of the extensions and things. Wikimedia is quite nice software.

@wirestyle22 said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:

I didn't read every post here, but your boss is wrong. An internal wiki is a fantastic way to document and i have no idea what he's talking about. It sounds like you're in a similar position as I am where all logic is discarded for seemingly no real reason.

Yeah thanks, I thought it was a good idea too. I have one at home and like mine so maybe there is some disconnect somewhere that he thinks it does something else

@scottalanmiller said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:

Given everything else described, it is pretty safe to assume he's either just making it up or is not properly maintaining his system and the results are actually telling you that you have a security problem in your IT management.

Ok well thought id ask just in case you know

@stacksofplates said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:

I'm guessing something like Nessus. We have a couple appliances with web interfaces that we can't update and they show up on scans. It's nothing you can change and means nothing about PHP. Anything is a vulnerability if you don't maintain it.

Purely Windows here too btw

@scottalanmiller Well that is interesting. So any idea what these vulnerability scans were he said he ran that kept giving up php as the culprit?

Oops! My fault, your right

Well it is a programming language in its own way so not really surprising that it takes a while to learn. I only know basics and enough to be dangerous

@stacksofplates said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:

I've always used Drupal. IMO probably the most secure and flexible CMF there is and built with PHP. Just sounds like someone making excuses.

Yeah tons of things are built with php. I've never tried Drupal but I suppose I will have to experiment sometime.

@tim_g said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:

@jmoore said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:

Always willing to try new things. Do you remember any of the plugin names that made this "wiki-style" ?

Theme:
WikiWP

Plugins:
Broken Link Checker
Disable Comments
OnePress Image Elevator
Responsive Lightbox
Table of Contents Plus
TablePress
TinyMCE Advanced

Thanks Tim! I want to look at those. Cool that its a theme

@tim_g said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:

Did you bother to look at any of those? They are all old vulnerabilities from versions of WordPress you should not be using anymore. If you get hit, your fault!

Yeah Wordpress has always been good to me. I have run 2 websites for years and never got hacked which is really a miracle because at first I had no idea what I was doing. The only problem I've had was hackers doing so many attempts at my log in pages and server root that sometimes the site would go down when the server ran out of memory. I had a small server though and after I researched the issue just saw that it was a misconfiguration from Apache which i long since fixed. No issues since then. Knock on lots of Wood!

@tim_g said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:

A wiki-style Wordpress site has been a godsend. Copy/paste in anything from clipboard... pics, screenshots, videos... even formatting from the web or Word. It's stupid easy and fast to make a very readable wiki page. What takes 5 minutes to do on our Wordpress wiki can take hours on mediawiki. That's not an exaggeration, I mean that literally.

Always willing to try new things. Do you remember any of the plugin names that made this "wiki-style" ?

Also I like mediawiki because it is much easier to navigate and get to the area you need than is Wordpress from what I have seen anyway. Thats why I chose a wiki for this project.

@tim_g said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:

First of all, you can keep your internal documentation site, well... internal. No chance of pharma ads then!

Sure I get that. I had intended it be used by the organization and stay within the firewall so no chance of things like pharmaceutical ads

@scottalanmiller said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:

Love it!

@scottalanmiller said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:

It tells you that he either doesn't know how any of it works, or he doesn't know what is plausible. Either way... he doesn't know enough to have a conversation about it and sound like he's aware of what you are discussing.

Alright I understand that. You can't know about everything so no big deal. Was just hoping I wasn't making myself look foolish to management by presenting my idea. Thanks and appreciate the comments

@scottalanmiller said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:

That's like saying "I don't like Ford because the last time I rode in one we went to a movie and I didn't enjoy it." Either he knows he's being insanely irrational or he REALLY doesn't know how this stuff works.

Well i can't believe that he doesn't know how it works so he most likely just didn't like the idea for whatever reason and that was the first thing he thought of.