Benedikt Boehm http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow en-US http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Centreon 1.4.1 for Gentoo http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/11/02/centreon_1_4_1_for_gentoo Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:03:21 +0000 Benedikt Boehm Gentoo 1424@http://blogs.gentoo.org/ <p>Some days ago, i stumbled across <a href="http://www.oreon-project.org/">Centreon</a> (previously Oreon), a very nice web frontend for displaying nagios monitoring data, but also - even more important - it supports service and host configuration. Although the installation is poorly designed and not FHS compatible, the webapp is very nice and the generated nagios configuration looks very clean and sane.</p> <p>I have created a centreon-1.4.1.ebuild with a (rather huge) patch for FHS compatibility in my <a href="http://overlays.gentoo.org/dev/hollow/">overlay</a>. I'd recommend it for every nagios user frustrated with editing tons of files for adding a host or service <img src="http://blogs.gentoo.org/rsc/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="&#58;&#68;" class="middle" /></p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/11/02/centreon_1_4_1_for_gentoo">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> Some days ago, i stumbled across Centreon (previously Oreon), a very nice web frontend for displaying nagios monitoring data, but also - even more important - it supports service and host configuration. Although the installation is poorly designed and not FHS compatible, the webapp is very nice and the generated nagios configuration looks very clean and sane.

I have created a centreon-1.4.1.ebuild with a (rather huge) patch for FHS compatibility in my overlay. I'd recommend it for every nagios user frustrated with editing tons of files for adding a host or service :D

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]]> http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/11/02/centreon_1_4_1_for_gentoo#comments TLS Server Name Indication and Apache http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/10/25/tls_server_name_indication_and_apache Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:10:48 +0000 Benedikt Boehm Gentoo 1422@http://blogs.gentoo.org/ <p>As a follow up on <a href="http://www.hboeck.de/archives/556-https-with-multiple-certs-on-one-IP.html#trackbacks">Hannos post</a> i have added the SNI patch to apache-2.2.6-r3. It is currently hard-masked for testing, so please give it a try.</p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/10/25/tls_server_name_indication_and_apache">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> As a follow up on Hannos post i have added the SNI patch to apache-2.2.6-r3. It is currently hard-masked for testing, so please give it a try.

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]]> http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/10/25/tls_server_name_indication_and_apache#comments quite a productive day http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/09/08/quite_a_productive_day Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:34:18 +0000 Benedikt Boehm Gentoo 1397@http://blogs.gentoo.org/ <p><a href="http://shurl.org/TVYjj">http://shurl.org/TVYjj</a> <img src="http://blogs.gentoo.org/rsc/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="&#58;&#68;" class="middle" /></p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/09/08/quite_a_productive_day">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> http://shurl.org/TVYjj :D

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]]> http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/09/08/quite_a_productive_day#comments heh http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/09/07/heh Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:07:47 +0000 Benedikt Boehm Gentoo 1396@http://blogs.gentoo.org/ <p>honestly, i normally don't do these nerdy tests, but i felt rather bored this morning, so here you go:</p> <p><a href="http://www.nerdtests.com/nt2ref.html"><br /> <img src="http://www.nerdtests.com/images/badge/nt2/6b46fc17cd1fbaff.png" /><br /> </a></p> <p><img src="http://blogs.gentoo.org/rsc/smilies/graylaugh.gif" alt="&#58;&#41;&#41;" class="middle" /></p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/09/07/heh">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> honestly, i normally don't do these nerdy tests, but i felt rather bored this morning, so here you go:



:))

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]]> http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/09/07/heh#comments Apache 2.2 already stable on some archs / New baselayout-2 stages http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/09/04/apache_2_2_already_stable_on_some_archs_ Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:39:57 +0000 Benedikt Boehm Gentoo 1395@http://blogs.gentoo.org/ <p>After having enjoyed a wonderful vacation in turkey, i have finally found time to resolve the remaining issues with apache and opened <a href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190331">bug 190331</a> for stabilizing apache-2.0.59-r5 -- which contains fixes for the CVEs mentioned on <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_20.html">httpd.apache.org</a> -- and apache-2.2.4-r12.</p> <p>We encourage everyone to upgrade to apache 2.2, there are some changes in the configuration though. We have split much of the configuration for modules bundled with apache to their own files in /etc/apache2/modules.d/. This creates a lean httpd.conf on the one hand, but also eases configuration updates in the future. Additionally, some third-party authentication modules may not work with apache 2.2 (yet), since the internal structure has changed since 2.2. For details see <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/new_features_2_2.html">New features of 2.2</a>.</p> <p>The apache herd will support apache 2.0 <b>until Dec 31 2007</b>, so there should be enough room for migration.</p> <p>Being quite busy with apache since my return from vacation i haven't touched the experimental qmail ebuilds again yet, but i will catch up on that over the weekend and make a seperate post later on.</p> <p>Last but not least, i have built new stages with baselayout-2 for vserver usage available at <a href="http://people.linux-vserver.org/~hollow/stages/">http://people.linux-vserver.org/~hollow/stages/</a>. Stages for i686 are already online, amd64 is still compiling, but should be finished during this evening.</p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/09/04/apache_2_2_already_stable_on_some_archs_">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> After having enjoyed a wonderful vacation in turkey, i have finally found time to resolve the remaining issues with apache and opened bug 190331 for stabilizing apache-2.0.59-r5 -- which contains fixes for the CVEs mentioned on httpd.apache.org -- and apache-2.2.4-r12.

We encourage everyone to upgrade to apache 2.2, there are some changes in the configuration though. We have split much of the configuration for modules bundled with apache to their own files in /etc/apache2/modules.d/. This creates a lean httpd.conf on the one hand, but also eases configuration updates in the future. Additionally, some third-party authentication modules may not work with apache 2.2 (yet), since the internal structure has changed since 2.2. For details see New features of 2.2.

The apache herd will support apache 2.0 until Dec 31 2007, so there should be enough room for migration.

Being quite busy with apache since my return from vacation i haven't touched the experimental qmail ebuilds again yet, but i will catch up on that over the weekend and make a seperate post later on.

Last but not least, i have built new stages with baselayout-2 for vserver usage available at http://people.linux-vserver.org/~hollow/stages/. Stages for i686 are already online, amd64 is still compiling, but should be finished during this evening.

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]]> http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/09/04/apache_2_2_already_stable_on_some_archs_#comments qmail fixups and new howto http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/07/15/qmail_fixups_and_new_howto Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:08:17 +0000 Benedikt Boehm Gentoo 1370@http://blogs.gentoo.org/ <p>Following my <a href="http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/hollow/2007/07/15/experimental_qmail_ebuilds">previous post</a> about new qmail ebuilds, i have started a clean install for one of our mail servers at work and already fixed some bugs, mainly in the webapp integration for vqadmin and the dovecot-dspam plugin that has been added to portage recently. Again, these updated ebuilds can be found in <a href="http://overlays.gentoo.org/dev/hollow">my overlay</a>.</p> <p>During the installation i have also rewritten most parts of the old netqmail/vpopmail guide. It now uses dovecot instead of courier, has a section aboult spam filtering with RBL, ClamAV, DSpam and SpamAssassin and explains howto setup vqadmin/qmailadmin.</p> <p>The first draft of the qmail guide can be found <a href="http://dev.gentoo.org/~hollow/qmail-howto.xml">here</a>.</p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/07/15/qmail_fixups_and_new_howto">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> Following my previous post about new qmail ebuilds, i have started a clean install for one of our mail servers at work and already fixed some bugs, mainly in the webapp integration for vqadmin and the dovecot-dspam plugin that has been added to portage recently. Again, these updated ebuilds can be found in my overlay.

During the installation i have also rewritten most parts of the old netqmail/vpopmail guide. It now uses dovecot instead of courier, has a section aboult spam filtering with RBL, ClamAV, DSpam and SpamAssassin and explains howto setup vqadmin/qmailadmin.

The first draft of the qmail guide can be found here.

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]]> http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/07/15/qmail_fixups_and_new_howto#comments experimental qmail ebuilds http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/07/15/experimental_qmail_ebuilds Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:58:59 +0000 Benedikt Boehm Gentoo 1369@http://blogs.gentoo.org/ <p>Due to the huge amount of code duplication and open bugs i have started to clean up several qmail related ebuilds. The most important change is the <a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/50389">qmail.eclass</a> which simplifies installation of different qmail variants (netqmail, qmail-ldap, qmail-mysql, mini-qmail) and provides some functions and variables for qmail add-ons.</p> <p>Some updated ebuilds can be found in my <a href="http://overlays.gentoo.org/dev/hollow">overlay</a> until they are ready for the live portage tree.</p> <p>The following bugs have been adressed:</p> <ul> <li> <b>daemontools</b><br /> - the daemontools.eclass provides standardized installation for supervise scripts for the daemontools package. supervise scripts are installed to /var/lib/supervise now. <b>You have to change your symlinks</b> </li> <li> <b>qmailadmin/vqadmin</b><br /> - the qmailadmin and vqadmin ebuilds have been updated to work with webapp-config. </li> <li> <b><br /> <a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/47668">47668</a>, <br /> <a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/83606">83606</a>,<br /> <a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/152503">152503</a><br /> </b><br /> - ezmlm-idx-mysql and ezmlm-idx-pgsql have been updated and integrated to ezmlm-idx and can be enabled with use flags now. </li> <li> <b><a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/97267">97267</a></b><br /> - a new virtual/checkpassword has been introduced to combine all <a href="http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd.html">checkpwd</a> compatible applications </li> <li> <b><a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/123897">123897</a></b><br /> - you can now use qmail's pop3d with ssl support using ucspi-ssl </li> <li> <b><a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/135571">135571</a></b><br /> - man-pages are now installed by ucspi-tcp directly </li> <li> <b><a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/137207">137207</a></b><br /> - qmail does not install man-pages related to internal libraries anymore </li> <li> <b><a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/140488">140488</a></b><br /> - vpopmail has been updated to the latest version and a supervise script has been provided for vpopmaild </li> <li> <b><br /> <a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/95184">95184</a>,<br /> <a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/141880">141880</a>, <br /> <a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/164215">164215</a><br /> </b> </li> </ul> <p>If you feel like testing, checkout my overlay (yes, it is in layman-global.txt), and report any problems directly to me via IRC or mail.</p> <p>Enjoy.</p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/07/15/experimental_qmail_ebuilds">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> Due to the huge amount of code duplication and open bugs i have started to clean up several qmail related ebuilds. The most important change is the qmail.eclass which simplifies installation of different qmail variants (netqmail, qmail-ldap, qmail-mysql, mini-qmail) and provides some functions and variables for qmail add-ons.

Some updated ebuilds can be found in my overlay until they are ready for the live portage tree.

The following bugs have been adressed:

  • daemontools
    - the daemontools.eclass provides standardized installation for supervise scripts for the daemontools package. supervise scripts are installed to /var/lib/supervise now. You have to change your symlinks
  • qmailadmin/vqadmin
    - the qmailadmin and vqadmin ebuilds have been updated to work with webapp-config.

  • 47668,
    83606,
    152503

    - ezmlm-idx-mysql and ezmlm-idx-pgsql have been updated and integrated to ezmlm-idx and can be enabled with use flags now.
  • 97267
    - a new virtual/checkpassword has been introduced to combine all checkpwd compatible applications
  • 123897
    - you can now use qmail's pop3d with ssl support using ucspi-ssl
  • 135571
    - man-pages are now installed by ucspi-tcp directly
  • 137207
    - qmail does not install man-pages related to internal libraries anymore
  • 140488
    - vpopmail has been updated to the latest version and a supervise script has been provided for vpopmaild

  • 95184,
    141880,
    164215

If you feel like testing, checkout my overlay (yes, it is in layman-global.txt), and report any problems directly to me via IRC or mail.

Enjoy.

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]]> http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/07/15/experimental_qmail_ebuilds#comments qmail-ldap revival and simscan-1.3.1 http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/06/17/qmail_ldap_revival_and_simscan_1_3_1 Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:55:24 +0000 Benedikt Boehm Gentoo 1345@http://blogs.gentoo.org/ <p>A short notice from the qmail side of life:</p> <p>After like 3 years, the qmail-ldap ebuild has been updated:</p> <ul> <li>Now in sync with netqmail-1.05 ebuild</li> <li>Updated qmail-ldap patch to 20060201</li> <li>Includes QmailLDAP/Controls patch (let's you store control/ files in LDAP attributes)</li> <li>Includes the queue-custom-error.patch (return custom bounce messages from queue programs)</li> <li>Includes qmail-spp</li> <li>Sane Makefile options handling</li> </ul> <p>A little testing wouldn't hurt, though.</p> <p>On a sidenote, i have added simscan-1.3.1 to the tree, after successfull testing on my production mail server for a while, enjoy.</p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow/2007/06/17/qmail_ldap_revival_and_simscan_1_3_1">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> A short notice from the qmail side of life:

After like 3 years, the qmail-ldap ebuild has been updated:

  • Now in sync with netqmail-1.05 ebuild
  • Updated qmail-ldap patch to 20060201
  • Includes QmailLDAP/Controls patch (let's you store control/ files in LDAP attributes)
  • Includes the queue-custom-error.patch (return custom bounce messages from queue programs)
  • Includes qmail-spp
  • Sane Makefile options handling

A little testing wouldn't hurt, though.

On a sidenote, i have added simscan-1.3.1 to the tree, after successfull testing on my production mail server for a while, enjoy.

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