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Two friends: GeoWebStats and GeoBroStats – visualizing Apache and Bro logs...
One of my pet (a.k.a. procrastination) projects has been to visualize my server logs using Google Maps. In fact, this has been my ‘procrastination hub’ giving me excuses to work on a variety of pet...
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Link: Surviving traffic storms with WordPress
Interesting link on surviving traffic storms with WordPress: not that I currently need it, but maybe in the future… In a nutshell: fine tuning of Apache (adjusting #processes, keep alives and...
View ArticleListing socket/network connection owners on OSX
While playing with OSX I was wondering how to find out all the networks connections a particular process owns. On Linux I’d use netstat -p for this, which does not work on OSX. It turns out that the...
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sed and awk – my two old friends
Writing some shell scripts I needed to do some a little fancier variable substitution than the standard shell offers. The heavyweight solution would be to write a perl one-liner, but this is, well…,...
View ArticlePatching debian packages
While upgrading my server, I had to create a new version of Cyrus-SASL packages with the crypt patch. This turned out to be more difficult as I thought as just patching the raw source would conflict...
View ArticleWTH: eth0 got renamed to eth2 after an upgrade
While upgrading a remote server from sarge to etch including the new kernel, the server did not come up. After attaching a console (thanks Hetzner!) I found out that the network interface got...
View ArticleApache2.0 -> Apache 2.2 upgrade issues
While upgrading apache 2.0 -> 2.2 I found that two configuration options have changed: AuthAutoritative -> AuthBasicAuthoritative (needs to be set to Off for mod_auth_pgsql to work)....
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Installing SVN with Apache2 support on my server.
I just enabled SVN access on my server through the web interface. It was quite easy and, since we have a Postgres DB authentication, there’s no need to edit inconvenient password files All I had to do...
View Articlexdu: analyzing disk-space usage
I recently started getting nagmails about running out of quota on my home directory. Being a very messy user, I had no idea where the space went. I tried playing with du manually, but it’s much easier...
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Talking TLS to SMTP
I recently wanted to test TLS with SMTP. I followed instructions on http://qmail.jms1.net/test-auth.shtml and got it to work in less than 30s In short: perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print...
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