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I’m planning to bring the main OpenBSD shell server up to date this Sunday morning at around 10 or 11am ET. This will bring us from OpenBSD 4.7 to 5.0 and hopefully will resolve some of the sporadic crashes we’ve seen on this server. The upgrade is expected to take roughly an hour, with an [...]
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I did the upgrade this morning from about 9:45am until 10:45am ET due to security announcements in a PHP extension we use. Things were a little chunky through that time, but should be back to normal now. Sorry if this caused any inconvenience.
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After the recent migration of Trac and SVN services at GeekISP, I had hoped that the new version we moved to (0.12.x) would consume a little bit less memory than in the prior 0.11.x deployment. Not so – in fact, memory usage seemed to increase, and rapidly. Sadly Google doesn’t provide a ton of helpful [...]
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http://wordpress.org/news/2012/01/wordpress-3-3-1/ Another day, another WordPress update. Be sure to update your blogs to keep yourself protected!
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Happy New Year! I’m moving Trac & SVN services off to a VM dedicated to the task (previously the shell server was doing double-duty and helping out here). In the process Trac is getting upgraded to 0.12 and generally getting more resources allocated so it can be a better experience for our heavy users. You’ll [...]
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It seems that lately SpamAssassin has had a bit too much fun marking mail as spam with the ‘BAYES_99′ rule. This seems to have started recently when the Bayesian spam DB was upgraded from MySQL 5.0 to 5.5. Exactly what went wrong… well I am still working on that. For now, Bayes processing is disabled [...]
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Here’s a useful little tip I picked up this week courtesy of this great thread on reddit: the ‘disown’ shell builtin. Here are the details from the bash man page: disown [-ar] [-h] [jobspec ...] Without options, each jobspec is removed from the table of active jobs. If jobspec is not present, and neither -a [...]
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One of the recent additions we’ve had at GeekISP is mod_xsendfile support in Apache. This module allows any Apache-based server-side language (e.g. PHP, any CGI program, etc) provide fine grained control and app logic over static files while still allowing Apache to do what it does best – serve static files quickly and efficiently. First, [...]
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It’s been a few months since our last round of OpenBSD upgrades, and one or two servers are slightly overdue. For starters, the shell/ftp server login.geekisp.com is still on OpenBSD 4.7, so getting that up to 5.0 is at the top of the list. As always with OpenBSD upgrades, I expect things to go extremely [...]
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All I can say is – better late than never. Having operated GeekISP now for almost 9 years to the day, I’m a little late on the tech-blog front. But here we are, and as I said … better late than never. So what is this blog about? Simple – news and goings-on at GeekISP, [...]
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