Into the Debian world I venture…
What do you do when a colo service shuts its doors and you need a cheap and feasible solution?
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Avoiding deadlock on FreshPorts
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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Firewall upgrade – progress
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.
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Upgrading the Firewall
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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Phorum 3 – hostname too small
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
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Are your PHP pages observing Last-Modified?
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
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Spammers are amazing
I suspect spammers are paying people to post messages to my forums in The FreeBSD Diary. I started blocking them by IP address, but I quickly bored of that. Then I started required people to register before posting. That stopped them.
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BSDCan 2005
It has been nearly three months since my last post. Let me change that now. BSDCan 2005 was a roaring success. We had 197 people, up from 175 last year. We had lots of compliments, and hints of corporate sponsorship. People came from 15 different countries including 26 from outside North America. That’s pretty impressive. The Hyper-Threading Vulnerability talk was a great bonus. The story has been mentioned on many websites already. Planning
I am the DLT King
I am the DLT King. Over the past month or so, I’ve really gotten into DLT drives for doing backups. Within the next week or so, I should have my backups running smoothly on a DLT 7000. More, later.
The Blog Starts Again!
I saw the recent release of WordPress. Rather than upgrade, I restarted. The old blog is gone. It was just one post anyway.
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