Repo copies are evil. What are repo copies? A repo copy occurs when you move things around in the repository manually. For example, this commit contains a lot of repo copy work. Ports are being moved from their current category to a new category, ports-mgmt. The original files in the CVS repository are manually moved […]
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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:
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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 problem? The code
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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.
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Data driven applications are a good concept to keep in mind when design an application, especially when that application needs to have new bits added to it on a regular basis. My idea for using Python to listen for FreshPorts events is a case in point.
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Today I started playing with Python again. My goal is to create a listening “daemon†to process PostgreSQL events. I wrote about my initial proof of concept at the start of the month. Today, it’s time to look at using this for real.
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