Bacula – the backup solution
More and more people are learning about Bacula. Here is a little survey I did at LISA06.
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What’s in the pipeline, how it works, how it’s made…
More and more people are learning about Bacula. Here is a little survey I did at LISA06.
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I recently mentioned that Robert Watson suggested that the ability to flag commits in FreshSource. Over the past few days, durings flights and waiting for flights, I’ve managed to put together a quick and dirty try-me session. If you visit the BETA site, and log in, you’ll notice a flag beside each commit. Click on
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I’m headed to LISA. I was able to get a cheap air ticket, and an even cheaper hotel. I’ll be meeting up with the PostgreSQL group and spending most of my time at the *BSD booth. I’ll also be bringing along some brochures for the PostgreSQL conference. If you’re there, stop by.
Robert Watson has raised a few idea on how FreshSource can be used as a developer platform. These ideas are equally applicable to FreshPorts. See http://www.freshsource.org/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=33&t=33.
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Today I noticed a problem with the FreshPorts email processing daemon. It’s not really a daemon. It’s a shell script. After a reboot, I noticed the script was not running. Trying the script by hand, I found this error message: .: missing filename This sample script duplicates the problem: #!/bin/sh while . do sleep 1
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Remember that wonderful new scheme for parsing URLs? Well, it broke virtual categories. That’s only because I forgot about them. Not because the schema is broken. It will still work, for any item in the tree. But virtual categories are not in the tree. I’ll change the new code to do some extra checks before
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And today, for my first trick (yes, it is my first trick, but my second post today), I shall transform this URL: http://www.freshports.org/news/pan2/files.php?message_id=200605010349.k413nOGF019378@repoman.freebsd.org into http://www.freshports.org/commit.php?message_id=200605010349.k413nOGF019378@repoman.freebsd.org&category=news&port=pan2&files=yes Why? Because it is impolite to break existing URLs. It is far better to redirect them to the new improved content. Our documentation for today’s exercise shall be http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html#RewriteRule. Our
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Central to how FreshPorts works is the parsing of the URL. Almost everying in FreshPorts is in a database, not in a static file somewhere. I need to improve the URL parsing.
Finding another way to parse URLs Read More »
Earlier this week, we had a bit of a crisis. The colo which provides bandwidth and servers to FreshPorts (and all the other websites I run), was unexpectedly shutdown. BChosting sold their Vancouver facilities to Netluxe, who, by all accounts, shut down the ops center without notifying customers. Well, I wasn’t notified. I was contacted
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A drill down refers to moving from summary information to detailed data by focusing in on something. On a ports commit, you can drill down in several ways. Take this commit for example. You can the following ways to drill down: takes you to the FreeBSD email archive takes you to the commit details [1]
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