Josh Wieder

A few of my Red Hat servers run cron jobs to check for updates. starting yesterday (Thursday October 1st, 2015) at around 3PM I encountered 503 unavailable errors when attempting to contact a Fedora Project URL that hosts the metalink for the  rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases repository - a core RHEL repository for EC2. Could not get metalink  https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-7&arch=x86_64  error was 14: HTTPS Error 503 - Service Unavailable 3 hours later or so, the URL began responding again, but the problems remained. `yum` now reports corrupted update announcements from the repo: Update notice RHSA-2014:0679 (from rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases) is broken, or a bad duplicate, skipping. You should report this problem to the owner of the rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases repository. Update notice RHSA-2014:1327 (from rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases) is broken, or a bad duplicate, skipping. Update notice RHEA-2015:0372 (from rhui-REG...

Here is a quick tip for all of those Redhat/CentOS/Fedora users out there. Do you need to find all files over a certain size, either in a specific directory, your current directory, or in your entire computer/server? No problem, just execute the following: find / -type f -size +500000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }' In the example above, I am looking for all files over 500MB in size (500000k, where k = kilobytes). The place where I have typed "/" in the above command indicates the path to search in. By selecting "/" I am searching in the entire filesystem; I could easily indicate a specific directory by changing my command as follows: find /path/to/my/directory -type f -size +500000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }' Alternatively, I could search in my current directory by replacing "/" with "." like so: find . -type f -size +500000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ pri...