I have it figured out! This is originally referencing the trouble I was having starting apache-2.2.10 and using mod_chroot-0.5 (http://www.uno-code.com/?q=node/155). You cannot use mod_chroot with apache-2.2.10. Apache-2.2.10 because apache has built in chroot support now. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mpm_common.html All you need to do is provide a ChrootDir variable in httpd.conf. The problem is that mod_chroot sets that… Continue reading Apache-2.2.10 and mod_chroot-0.5 – Issue is solved

This morning I was unable to connect to MSN, which is very frustrating for me. At first I just waited a bit to see if it was a MSN issue, but after receiving some IMs (via AIM/Yahoo, etc) of others that were also having trouble with pidgin. A friend of mine told me to emerge… Continue reading Pidgin MSN issues this morning

Today I tried to update apache-2.2.9-r1 to apache-2.2.10 and was greeted with the following errors in the error_log: [Sat Jan 10 09:37:30 2009] [notice] mod_chroot: changed root to /var/chroot/apache. [Sat Jan 10 09:37:30 2009] [alert] (2)No such file or directory: Can't chdir to /var/chroot/apache [Sat Jan 10 09:37:30 2009] [alert] (2)No such file or directory:… Continue reading Apache-2.2.10 + Mod_chroot-0.5 causes startup problems.

Apparently, Gentoo did away completely the `emerge sync` command/arg. I didn’t notice this, since I had a cron job that was running the following every night /usr/bin/emerge sync > /dev/null 2>&1 Obviously, I didn’t see the output since it was piped to /dev/null. This use to work and apparently they got rid of it completely.… Continue reading emerge –sync update

gst-python won’t compile I’ve been having trouble compiling gst-python-0.10.13 over the last few days. Today, I decided to get this figured out. When emerging gst-python, I receive the following error:

After compiling a new kernel for my gentoo vmware server, I ran module-rebuild -X rebuild, since I knew I needed to build vmware-modules against the new kernel tree. Shortly after the emerge, I ran into the following compliation error:

I’m really writing this down for my own benefit. I mainly live in the Gentoo world, so when I hop on a CentOS box, I usually end up cursing for a bit. I needed to change a system to use a static IP vs. DHCP. To view the IP or interface settings, you need to… Continue reading Changing IP on CentOS system

During my server disaster earlier mentioned, I decided to monitor the drives a bit more closely. The drives on the system were SMART capable, so I emerge’d sys-apps/smartmontools. Here is the description of that package: sys-apps/smartmontools Available versions: 5.36-r1 5.37 ~5.37-r1 5.38 {minimal static} Installed versions: 5.38(10:56:28 10/09/08)(-minimal -static) Homepage: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Description: control and monitor… Continue reading Monitoring S.M.A.R.T devices

Wow. Where to begin? Last week I had a crazy sequence of events related to one of my servers. After seeing a series of segfaults and memory errors, I started seeing corrupted files on the disk. This particular server is housed at a dedicated hosting facility. Their first look at the hardware they noticed that… Continue reading Server Collapse

Today, I encountered some weird issues with a postfix/amavis mail server which was causing segfaults and memory paging errors. I was forced to bounce the server, but it wasn’t able to shutdown all of it’s services. That left me with the only option of calling the dedicated hosting company and requesting a hard shutdown. Shortly… Continue reading Policyd-weight issues with unclean shutdown