Recently I upgraded PAM on my Gentoo server to 0.99. There were a number of warnings that went with it, including details on upgrading some of the files manually (crazy). Details on the upgrade process are on the Gentoo website here. After the build, it recommends running revdep-rebuild to rebuild the dependencies. [...]

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Shortly after we released 1.4.12, somebody reported that the package didn’t match our checksum for it. This is not a good sign, so we set out to find out what might have happened. It turns out that one of the package managers had their account compromised, and the files released in 1.4.11, and [...]

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Phew… finally got 5 minutes to get 1.4.12 out the door. This release included a bug fix for attachment handling, which was nearly entirely broken with PHP 4, and just slightly broken in a minor area in PHP 5. Full details are in the ChangeLog, grab your copy.

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Something has been bugging me since I started using Firefox, and Thunderbird, and sadly it has little to do with the actually application, but rather the site for both of the applications.

The first was the Mozilla team’s decision to use the same file extension for their application extensions (plugins). Why is this [...]

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As some might have noticed, a few of my recent posts have had weird extra slashes in them (here, and here). I attribute this to my recent upgrade on WP from 2.1 to 2.2, and the autoescape. I’ve managed to reproduce the issue in my development environment, so I’m working on a bug [...]

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How do you turn a 12 (or more) hour job into 40 minutes? Script it…

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Whilst sitting here on the 6th hour of this outage call, I decided to update the theme for my site. While the other one was pretty simple, I was beginning to get bored of it. So I stumbled about the Wordpress Theme site for a bit, until I stumbled on this one. [...]

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Well, I stayed up last night until 2am, which shortly became 3 am, then on to 4 am. The new DST time period rolled over great for all my linux boxes, my windows boxes on the other hand, caused a bit of an issue. All the Windows 2003 servers rolled fine. As [...]

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On Sunday I wrote up a “brief” little record of my upgrade nightmare. Today, I got an email from Bill reporting his anti-spam comment plugin was broken. So I decided to check in on it. I had assumed there was an issue with the PHP build I had created after the installs. [...]

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I’ve been pretty good at keeping my server up to date. I’ve taken a general policy of “if it isn’t broke, don’t touch it”. It works well, for the most part. When it comes to servers though, security is a good idea, and that plays havoc with the previous mantra.

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