Archive for September, 2006

WTD: Apache module/plugin to log requests when they arrive

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

I want a module/plugin for Apache 1.3 that will log requests when they arrive.

Package names and vuxml

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

If you have not installed portaudit, you should. It will save you time. A little bit of work by those that maintain the FreeBSD vulnerability database saves a great deal of time for all the sysadmins out there. For example, this morning, I got this email:

FreshPorts and vuxml entries

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

For more information, please read

b6cad7f3-fb59-11d8-9837-000c41e2cdad ImageMagick-nox11
a713c0f9-ec54-11d8-9440-000347a4fa7d ImageMagick-nox11
4aec9d58-ce7b-11d8-858d-000d610a3b12 SSLtelnet
107692a1-ee6c-11d9-8310-0001020eed82 acroread4
28e93883-539f-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82 acroread4
f74dc01b-0e83-11da-bc08-0001020eed82 acroread4
78348ea2-ec91-11d8-b913-000c41e2cdad acroread4
70c59485-ee5a-11d9-8310-0001020eed82 acroread4
f74dc01b-0e83-11da-bc08-0001020eed82 acroread5
78348ea2-ec91-11d8-b913-000c41e2cdad acroread5
28e93883-539f-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82 acroread5
107692a1-ee6c-11d9-8310-0001020eed82 acroread5
70c59485-ee5a-11d9-8310-0001020eed82 acroread5
651996e0-fe07-11d9-8329-000e0c2e438a apache+mod_ssl+mod_accel
dc8c08c7-1e7c-11db-88cf-000c6ec775d9 apache+mod_ssl+mod_accel
9fff8dc8-7aa7-11da-bf72-00123f589060 apache+mod_ssl+mod_accel
dc8c08c7-1e7c-11db-88cf-000c6ec775d9 apache+mod_ssl+mod_accel+ipv6
651996e0-fe07-11d9-8329-000e0c2e438a apache+mod_ssl+mod_accel+ipv6
9fff8dc8-7aa7-11da-bf72-00123f589060 apache+mod_ssl+mod_accel+ipv6
dc8c08c7-1e7c-11db-88cf-000c6ec775d9 apache+mod_ssl+mod_accel+mod_deflate
651996e0-fe07-11d9-8329-000e0c2e438a apache+mod_ssl+mod_accel+mod_deflate
9fff8dc8-7aa7-11da-bf72-00123f589060 apache+mod_ssl+mod_accel+mod_deflate
9fff8dc8-7aa7-11da-bf72-00123f589060 apache+mod_ssl+mod_accel+mod_deflate+ipv6
651996e0-fe07-11d9-8329-000e0c2e438a apache+mod_ssl+mod_accel+mod_deflate+ipv6
dc8c08c7-1e7c-11db-88cf-000c6ec775d9 apache+mod_ssl+mod_accel+mod_deflate+ipv6
9fff8dc8-7aa7-11da-bf72-00123f589060 apache+mod_ssl+mod_deflate
651996e0-fe07-11d9-8329-000e0c2e438a apache+mod_ssl+mod_deflate
dc8c08c7-1e7c-11db-88cf-000c6ec775d9 apache+mod_ssl+mod_deflate
dc8c08c7-1e7c-11db-88cf-000c6ec775d9 apache+mod_ssl+mod_deflate+ipv6
9fff8dc8-7aa7-11da-bf72-00123f589060 apache+mod_ssl+mod_deflate+ipv6
651996e0-fe07-11d9-8329-000e0c2e438a apache+mod_ssl+mod_deflate+ipv6
9fff8dc8-7aa7-11da-bf72-00123f589060 apache+mod_ssl+mod_snmp
651996e0-fe07-11d9-8329-000e0c2e438a apache+mod_ssl+mod_snmp
dc8c08c7-1e7c-11db-88cf-000c6ec775d9 apache+mod_ssl+mod_snmp
9fff8dc8-7aa7-11da-bf72-00123f589060 apache+mod_ssl+mod_snmp+mod_accel
dc8c08c7-1e7c-11db-88cf-000c6ec775d9 apache+mod_ssl+mod_snmp+mod_accel
651996e0-fe07-11d9-8329-000e0c2e438a apache+mod_ssl+mod_snmp+mod_accel
651996e0-fe07-11d9-8329-000e0c2e438a apache+mod_ssl+mod_snmp+mod_accel+ipv6
dc8c08c7-1e7c-11db-88cf-000c6ec775d9 apache+mod_ssl+mod_snmp+mod_accel+ipv6
9fff8dc8-7aa7-11da-bf72-00123f589060 apache+mod_ssl+mod_snmp+mod_accel+ipv6
651996e0-fe07-11d9-8329-000e0c2e438a apache+mod_ssl+mod_snmp+mod_accel+mod_deflate+ipv6
9fff8dc8-7aa7-11da-bf72-00123f589060 apache+mod_ssl+mod_snmp+mod_accel+mod_deflate+ipv6
dc8c08c7-1e7c-11db-88cf-000c6ec775d9 apache+mod_ssl+mod_snmp+mod_accel+mod_deflate+ipv6
9fff8dc8-7aa7-11da-bf72-00123f589060 apache+mod_ssl+mod_snmp+mod_deflate
651996e0-fe07-11d9-8329-000e0c2e438a apache+mod_ssl+mod_snmp+mod_deflate
dc8c08c7-1e7c-11db-88cf-000c6ec775d9 apache+mod_ssl+mod_snmp+mod_deflate
651996e0-fe07-11d9-8329-000e0c2e438a apache+mod_ssl+mod_snmp+mod_deflate+ipv6
9fff8dc8-7aa7-11da-bf72-00123f589060 apache+mod_ssl+mod_snmp+mod_deflate+ipv6
dc8c08c7-1e7c-11db-88cf-000c6ec775d9 apache+mod_ssl+mod_snmp+mod_deflate+ipv6
ca6c8f35-0a5f-11d9-ad6f-00061bc2ad93 […]

Tabs instead of space got me into trouble

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

I got into trouble yesterday. Or rather, FreshPorts got into trouble because of me. It all centered around a new category called net perl5. I first notice the problem when I received an SQL error message:
ERROR: null value in column “last_update” violates not-null constraint
CONTEXT: SQL statement “INSERT INTO category_stats ( […]

Python listening now in production

Monday, September 11th, 2006

The Python listening script is now in production. With a few luser-type problems along the way. Specifically: I have discovered, quite recently, that having the same name for both the NOTIFY command and the LISTEN command is kind of a good strategy when you actually want your listener to be notified. The […]

Adding stubs for listening - data driven

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

Following on from the previous post, I found myself with a few hours to myself tonight. The estrogen in the house went out as a group so I managed to do a bit more coding on the FreshPorts listening daemon.