Today’s post will be about my procedure for upgrading Apache-2.0.59-r5 to apache-2.2.6. This is a major jump, and unfortunately, needs to happen. There are bugs-a-plenty at bugs.gentoo.org, and I touched upon these issues here. The first step before doing any large upgrade is to scour the forums. I always want/need to see what I’m in… Continue reading Upgrading Apache from 2.0.59-r5 to 2.2.6

So my wife updated her Firefox last night, and now it’s unable to resolve sites on the net. First thought, it has to be firewall.. right!?!? Of course, my irritation rises, since Norton is installed on that machine. I started disabling various ‘protections’, and still no-go? Okay, IE7 works, so I thought I’d reinstall 2.0.0.7… Continue reading I’m having issues with the latest update to Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.7

I have to say, I like the recent upgrade to portage. I’ve noticed a few a great improvements. With the upgrade of portage-2.1.3.9, they implemented some subtle but great improvements. First off, I set up egress filtering with iptables, and I only allow certain process limited port access out of my box. This is a… Continue reading Portage-2.1.3.9.. very nice!

I’ve been fighting this problem for months now. When using cURL to connect to a API over SSL in my chroot’d web server, the application appeared to hang perpetually. After additional investigation, I discovered that it eventually get’s the content but takes FOREVER to finish (approximately an hour). Restarting Apache without mod_chroot and everything works… Continue reading mod_chroot + cURL and SSL leads to extremely slow performance

Since the last portage upgrade, I’ve been seeing the following messages after emerging packages. * Messages for package sys-libs/ss-1.40.2: * This profile has not been tested thoroughly and is not considered to be * a supported server profile at this time. For a supported server * profile, please check the Hardened project (http://hardened.gentoo.org). * This… Continue reading Server profile warning message after emerges — corrected with eselect

Lately my hosting provider for Uno_code has been less than stellar. You definitely get what you pay for, and what I have is no exception. So, I thought it would be nice to look for other alternatives. But wading through all the landing pages and affliate traps for hosting providers can get annoying. With this… Continue reading Web Hosting Unleashed – Hosting Research

Okay, so after the weirdness with apache-2.0.59-r5, I finally have a working apache install with my apache-tools (apache2ctl, htpasswd2, etc). The problem was the original ebuild did not include these and app-admin/apache-tools as being blocked. To get apache-tools you needed to upgrade to apache-2.2.24-r12, which I was not comfortable with. After various bug reports (and… Continue reading apache-2.0.59-r5 to apache-2.2.4-r12 … WTF?

On one of my servers, I get pretty hefty mailserver action. I also do remote syslog using syslog-ng and stunnel. Today I started noticing a few of these messages in the logs. Sep 5 14:00:02 comp syslog-ng[22273]: Error accepting AF_UNIX connection, opened connections: 100, max: 100 Sep 5 14:00:02 comp syslog-ng[22273]: Error accepting AF_UNIX connection,… Continue reading Syslog-ng : How-to increase max connections

I have a client that sends me files using Microsoft’s propriety binary format (MS-TNEF MIME – Winmail.dat). I would see the text, but my claws-mail (sylpheed) is unable to view them. I’m primarily making this blog post so I don’t forget how to do this in the future. Also, if anyone has a built in… Continue reading Opening Stupid Windows WinMail.dat attachments with net-mail/tnef

Today’s challenge is related to the upgrade of Apache to www-servers/apache-2.0.59-r5. I upgraded on one of my servers, and immediately noticed something odd. Before I ever restart, I always like to do a config check with apache2ctl -t. For some reason apache2ctl was not compiled and installed. I figured it was a new ‘feature’ and… Continue reading Apache-2.0.59-r5 Missing Tools