June 21, 2006
Clamping down on spam
I run SpamAssassin on my mail server (anti-spam). I also run ClamAV (anti-virus). After extensively trialing ClamAV I was convinced of its reliability and decided to have it automatically delete all detected incoming viruses. SpamAssassin still produces far too many false positives and false negatives for me to perform such deletion but I decided today that I wanted to tighten things up a little bit.
Posted by wincent at 3:40 PM
June 10, 2006
freshclam: "Problem with internal logger"
Yesterday I received notification that an hourly freshclam update had failed. Overnight I continued to receive hourly notifications saying that there was a "[p]roblem with the internal logger".
Posted by wincent at 3:25 PM
June 2, 2006
Intel iMac set-up notes
When I switched from the G5 to the Intel iMac I used Apple's migration assistant to transfer over as much data as possible from the old system to the new. There were a number of command-line tools that I depend on that did not get transferred by the migration assistant. These are the notes that I made while compiling native Intel versions of these tools and installing them on the iMac.
Posted by wincent at 4:20 AM
June 1, 2006
Subversion 1.3.1 to 1.3.2 upgrade notes
Here are some brief notes I made while performing the upgrade from Subversion 1.3.1 to version 1.3.2 on my Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3 machine.
Posted by wincent at 3:15 PM
Upgrading to MySQL 4.1.20 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
It's amazing how quick and painless it is to upgrade from MySQL 4.1.19 to version 4.1.20 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
Posted by wincent at 1:44 AM
May 31, 2006
SSH tunneling and secure IMAP, POP3 and SMTP
When I first found this network I foolishly decided to check my email despite the fact that it uses inherently insecure protocols which transmit usernames and passwords in plaintext. I realized that the person running this open network could easily snoop them, so I decide to log into my server securely via SSH, immediately change the email passwords that had been transmitted as plaintext, and not try checking my email again until I had worked out a way to secure the protocols.
Posted by wincent at 8:17 PM
May 29, 2006
pstree mirror
I was just trying to build a copy of pstree for Intel and it appears that the website is no more. Not sure if this is a temporary outage or a permanent issue. Luckily I had a copy of the source archive, the latest version as far as I know (2.27). Seeing as the software is licensed for distribution under the GPL I've mirrored a copy here.
Posted by wincent at 3:26 PM
April 5, 2006
Subversion 1.3.1 upgrade notes
Some brief notes I made while doing the Subversion upgrade from version 1.3 to 1.3.1.
Posted by wincent at 3:52 PM
March 9, 2006
Eliminating "X-Authentication-Warning" headers from Squirrelmail
So I just upgraded my Squirrelmail installation to the latest stable release (1.4.6). While I was at it I decided to see if I could eliminate the annoying "X-Authentication-Warning" headers that were being added to outgoing mail sent using Squirrelmail. I wanted to eliminate this because it's possible that strict spam filters might reject messages with this header; also the warnings were cluttering up my LogWatch reports with noise.
Posted by wincent at 2:04 PM
January 27, 2006
Lightweight issue tracking
I use Bugzilla to power my public feature requests and bug tracking database. But sometimes when I am writing code I want to quickly insert a reminder into the source code itself rather than opening an issue in the database.
Posted by wincent at 2:23 PM
January 21, 2006
Security notes, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and rssh
When the old server died I switched to Rackspace. At the same time I switched to Red Hat Enterprise Linux not because I disliked FreeBSD (in fact, I still love it) but because Red Hat was the "most supported" option offered by Rackspace, as far as I could tell.
Posted by wincent at 3:19 PM
January 2, 2006
Upgrading to Subversion 1.3.0
Subversion 1.3.0 is out.
Posted by wincent at 3:54 PM
July 15, 2005
Upgrading to Subversion 1.2.1 on Mac OS X 10.4.2
Subversion 1.2.1 came out a short while ago. Here are my installation notes.
Posted by wincent at 8:49 PM
May 30, 2005
Disaster recovery notes
Here are some notes I made while configuring some UNIX tools — Apache 2, Subversion and the like — on the fresh install.
Posted by wincent at 12:14 PM
May 24, 2005
Building Subversion 1.2 on Mac OS X 10.4.1
Subversion 1.2 has just come out. Here are my installation notes.
Posted by wincent at 12:33 AM
May 16, 2005
Keeping Subversion alive and other notes on the update to Mac OS X 10.4
It's now been a few weeks since I installed Tiger and I wanted to post some notes on the move from 10.3 to 10.4. These may be of interest to people who have read my previous articles on installing Subversion and some other tools on this site.
Posted by wincent at 11:05 AM
April 9, 2005
Upgrading to Subversion 1.1.4
How to upgrade Subversion to version 1.1.4.
Posted by wincent at 6:52 AM
December 21, 2004
Upgrading to Subversion 1.1.2
How to upgrade Subversion to version 1.1.2.
Posted by wincent at 11:41 PM
December 3, 2004
Building pstree 2.26 on Mac OS X 10.3.6
How to build pstree 2.26 on Mac OS X 10.3.6
Posted by wincent at 12:06 AM
November 21, 2004
Building wget from CVS on Mac OS X 10.3
How to build wget from the latest CVS sources on Mac OS X 10.3.
Posted by wincent at 5:00 AM
Building ee/aee on Mac OS X 10.3
How to build ee and aee on Mac OS X 10.3.
Posted by wincent at 4:08 AM
Building Subversion 1.1.0 on Mac OS X 10.3
Building Subversion 1.1.0 with Apache 2.0 on Mac OS X 10.3.
Posted by wincent at 3:51 AM
Building pwgen on Mac OS X 10.3
How to build pwgen on Mac OS X 10.3.
Posted by wincent at 3:16 AM
