Personal newsfeeds active again
The personal news feeds are active once again.
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The latest and greatest vulnerabilities
FreshPorts, the place for ports, now lists the latest vulnerabilities. Along the left hand side of the page, you’ll see the last 15 vulnerabilities, as obtained from the ports/security/portuadit/vuln.xml file. Happy patching.
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Paging – a much better way
In the previous post I showed how I found out it was the ports-deleted page that was causing httpd to die. Since then, I finished my coding to introduce pagination into that URL What was once on one page, is now on 32 pages. As a added bonus, because the changes were made to the
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WTD: Apache module/plugin to log requests when they arrive
I want a module/plugin for Apache 1.3 that will log requests when they arrive.
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Package names and vuxml
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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FreshPorts and vuxml entries
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Tabs instead of space got me into trouble
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 ( SELECT categories.id AS
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Python listening now in production
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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Adding stubs for listening – data driven
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 listening
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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