I’m looking for work. I’m a software developer with lots of sysadmin experience. My ideal job would require multiple skills and involve development of high availability strategy, some coding, database design, and some sysadmin work, although not necessarily in that order. My resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php Will consider relocation.
It was quite some time ago that I [finally] moved FreshPorts onto the new server. Today I moved FreshSource over too. Both websites use the same database instance. That is, each website is a different view of the same database. Now that FreshSource is over here, we should be able to start doing a lot
FreshSource and FreshPorts back on the same server Read More »
Late last night, I wrote about a problem with virtual categories. I’ve been unable to reproduce the problem in test. But I did find the problem in production. [dan@supernews:/usr/websites/freshports.org/scripts] $ touch ../dynamic/www.en.ports.categories [dan@supernews:/usr/websites/freshports.org/scripts] $ sh process_www_en_ports_categories.sh about to fetch: fetch -q -o /usr/websites/freshports.org/dynamic/caching/tmp/categories http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/www/en/ports/categories?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain Can’t locate Text/CSV_XS.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
p5-Text-CSV_XS is missing Read More »
After all I’ve written about virtual categories, it seems I still don’t have them right. The code is there: $ grep -l www/en/ports/categories * process_www_en_ports_categories.sh special_processing_files.pm but things are still not being updated. If you look at the list of categories, sort by Description, you will find several with a description of “This is a
Virtual categories get no respect Read More »
Some people like to break into systems. Some like to find vulnerabilities. The good ones will tell you about the vulnerability so you can fix. Many won’t. Then there are the script kiddies. They don’t know much. They know how to run scripts. Lately, I’ve been seeing these requests to the FreshPorts website: /search.php?stype=http://0x00013.50webs.org/tesgcc.txt? /search.php?stype=http://0x0134.lan.io/pb.php?
Odd way to break in Read More »
This is not good: $ file -kb /usr/home/dan/ports/www/p5-HTTP-Size/Makefile Apple Old Partition data block size: 20069, first type: ${PORTSDIR}/www/p5-HTML-SimpleL, name: I \, number of blocks: 1953460746, It should read: $ file -kb /usr/home/dan/ports/sysutils/bacula-server/Makefile ASCII English text Why do I care? The file in question has been fetched from the FreeBSD repository (via cvsweb). I need to
when is a Makefile not a Makefile? Read More »
This isn’t so much a fix for the vuxml problem mentioned previously as it is a fix for properly detecting and reporting fetch errors. The patch is pretty simple: $ cvs di -u utilities.pm Index: utilities.pm =================================================================== RCS file: /home/repositories/freshports-1/scripts/utilities.pm,v retrieving revision 1.16 diff -u -r1.16 utilities.pm — utilities.pm 13 Sep 2007 13:01:41 -0000 1.16
This morning portaudit told me I needed to upgrade PHP5 on a few servers. Again, I checked FreshPorts to see if a fix was in. Apparently it was. Unfortunately, it was wrong. Checking the version of vuln.xml in the ports tree, I found: $ grep ‘$FreeBSD’ ports/security/vuxml/vuln.xml $FreeBSD: ports/security/vuxml/vuln.xml,v 1.1416 2007/09/11 19:40:02 remko Exp $
vuxml configuration still not right Read More »
After my overnight security report audit came in, I noticed that Apache needed to be upgraded. I went to FreshPorts to see if a fix had been committed. While there, I noticed a lack of vuxml skulls against the latest versions of Apache. Checking the BETA website, I saw it was correctly marked. More digging
vuxml – missing configuration items Read More »
As reported by sem@, there is a problem with the display of master/slave relationships within FreshPorts. The relationship is stored in the ports table, with the master_port attribute being a pointer to the master port. This text field typically has values such as this: freshports.org=# SELECT DISTINCT(master_port) freshports.org-# FROM ports_active freshports.org-# where master_port ” freshports.org-#
master / slave relationships Read More »