This is the webserver you’re reading from: $ uptime 5:31AM up 366 days, 12:48, 1 user, load averages: 0.45, 0.41, 0.50 This server does about 10 websites, and about 45GB a month, and does mail for about 15 domains.
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I’m heading off to Utah at the end of the month. The primary goal is to do some mountain biking in Moab. I’ve been there before but it’s time to go back again. As part of my trip preparation, I contacted the Greater Utah BSD User Group (aka GUBUG. Wouldn’t you know it! They’re having an installfest on the very day I’m arriving in Salt Lake City. What a coincidence! I’ll be giving
If you use Bacula, now is the time to donate. The project is raising funds to drive an encryption subproject. All funds will be donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The original call for funds is here and here. The status as of today is here (they are just under the 40% mark).
Bacula – your time to donate! Read More »
My previous post was about Debian. FYI: That shared box is now up and running well.
Debian is going well Read More »
What do you do when a colo service shuts its doors and you need a cheap and feasible solution?
Into the Debian world I venture… Read More »
FreshPorts is an automated reporting mechanism for the FreeBSD ports and package. You may be familiar with freshmeat, upon which FreshPorts is loosely based. The major difference is that FreshPorts is 100% automated; everything operates off scripts. Features The key features of FreshPorts includes a powerful search tool and the ability to create custom watch lists that allow you to track changes to any port and receive automated notification via email. FreshPorts uses
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I’m getting through the firewall upgrade process. The first error was forgetting to set up the NAT rules. That was a silly error. Right now, I just have to get stunnel installed and configured. I used that for publishing my websites. From the web server, I run cvsup and get the latest files from my CVS repository. Hopefully, I’ll have the firewall on 5.4 and running later this week.
Firewall upgrade – progress Read More »
I have a firewall that’s running FreeBSD 4.11. I’m planning to upgrade to 5.4 tonight. The backups are running (via Bacula [of course!]) now. I installed 5.4 on a separate HDD a few weeks ago, but have not copied over the configuration files etc. I’ll have to do that tonight. I’ll be documenting what is required and post it on The FreeBSD Diary.
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I’ve been using a customized version of Phorum for some time. It has served me well over the years, including an article feedback module I created. Tonight, it bit me. The host field is limited to 50 characters. Never mind that FQDN can be much longer than that. That’s the only poor design decision I’ve seen in this product. It was simple enough to fix. I’m running this on PostgreSQL. Phorum 5 doesn’t
Phorum 3 – hostname too small Read More »
I recently became interested in customizing some of the news feeds for FreshPorts. Specifically, I wanted to allow users to have a news feed for their watch list (that’s the list of software they want to track). The existing news feed is already the most popular item on the website. It accounts for over 13% of all my web traffic. I was concerned that if I created yet more news feeds, traffic would
Are your PHP pages observing Last-Modified? Read More »