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Bram — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:42:32 +0000

Just finished some cleaning up..
For the record (mainly my own):
- Removed WeatherIcon thingy (the weather sucks here anyway..)
- Removed useless whitespace between links
- Moved the Comic-links to an integrated page
- Changed the order of sidebar links in general

Some updates

Bram — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:09:07 +0000

I finally spent some time on upgrading this thing.. Turned out not to be too hard, even with a bunch of updated plugins! Looks like nothing died (right away), so I might have time to update my blog with actual posts as well ;)

Comment spam

Bram — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:14:41 +0000

Funny spammers, trying to put their crap online everywhere. Luckily, there’s Spam Karma. Today I took a quick look at the harvested spam list, and decided to clean up a bit:
Successfully purged 19843 comment spam entries.
Yikes.

SER and LDAP

Bram — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:25:45 +0000

A while ago, I started looking at Sip Express Router, as a proxy for my company’s VoIP platform. After a little searching and reading, we found that there wasn’t any LDAP support available by default. When we contacted IPtel, they told us we could ‘buy’ a module they wrote for another customer, that did just that. Unfortunately, we did not have the budget back then, and started coding on our own.

You can find the result here. It gets the job done, at least for us. Please do mind that it is not based on what IPTel can offer/is offering, and I doubt it has identical functionality. (For example, ‘my’ module requires both MySQL and LDAP, instead of putting the usrlocdb into LDAP).

Anyway, feel free to check it out, and let me know if it works (or does not work) for you ! :)

FreeBSD 5.x

Bram — Sun, 29 May 2005 20:52:05 +0000

After experimenting with a new amr(4) driver I found somewhere, my testbox didn’t came back after a reboot. Nothing special, you’d say, probably something went wrong. So, the next day, I went to fix it myself. Just escape to the loader prompt, unload kernel, load kernel.old, and we’re done.

Well, not quite. The same problem still existed (box ‘froze’ as soon as it got to the point of detecting the controller), even with the old kernel. I decided to pull out my FreesBIE LiveCD and just move the old kernel over the new one. Guess what, it worked.

Still didn’t seem to be quite my day, as when I tried reinstalling some other box, one of its disk died during the process. Oh well.

Apache fun

Bram — Wed, 25 May 2005 18:01:08 +0000

A few days ago, I finished the general idea of the new-style webhosting platform. Turned out to be easy, once I got the hang of it. (And of course, after some useful hints from a friend. Said friend has built a custom apache module, for handling PHP / CGI as a ‘normal’ user, accompanied with a little kernel-module.

The result is quite nice:
– Apache 2.0.54
– PHP 5.0.4
– mod_tsunami

.. and everything running as a numeric uid, no entries in the passwd file, all homedirs can be 0700. And, together with my own little tool that generates apache-configs from LDAP, I think it’s a pretty nice, stable, and easy to maintain setup.

Let’s see how things go, when I try reinstalling one of the shared hosting servers somewhere next week :)

Sten’s Apache page

FreeBSD modules

Bram — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:26:46 +0000

After finding some psybnc’s and other kiddie-crap on one of our webservers, I figured it would be a Good Idea ™ to disable the bind() call for normal
users. Knowing Sten Spans created a module that ‘changed’ the seteuid/setegid syscall, and after a few
hits google, I came up with the first it-compiles-ship-it-version of it :)

Ugly as hell, since I copy/pasted it and made some quick modifications. Still working on it..

Makefile
modtest.c