How do you use MySQL as a DBA?
Interesting question for MySQL DBA's: do you prefer using the mysql cli interface and know the SQL statements to execute in order to do your admin work like creating databases or do you prefer using...
View ArticleGoogle "Public DNS" to compete against OpenDNS
Google have launched their "Public DNS" service - a similar service to the OpenDNS public dns resolvers. It is going to be interesting to see how much competition occurs. It is usually faster to use...
View ArticleHow many drafts do you have in your blog software?
I currently have 43 draft entries in my blog software (movable type) that I've not yet published as I have not gotten round to posting some of the posts.
View ArticleOpenSolaris and VMWare boot issues
When running OpenSolaris SX:CE >= snv_100 on different flavours of VMWare (Fusion, ESX, etc.) one needs to change edit the grub menu to include "disable-pcieb=true" at the end of the kernel line. To...
View ArticleCrowd randomly dying issues
Dear Lazyweb, Does anyone have a solution for Atlassian Crowd keeping on crashing. I recently upgraded from 2.0.6 to 2.0.7 and that is were the issue started. Crowd randomly crashed every couple of...
View ArticlePreventing source code in your .git directory being viewed
Adding some lines to your apache configuration file can prevent people from viewing files under your .git directory or files like .gitmodules. Depending on whether you have other files/directories...
View ArticleDebugging an Apache 403 error and .htaccess issues
Seems that apache can have some misleading logfile entries. When you see something about: "cfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable" You can either be out of file handles or...
View ArticleGetting Crowd 2.0.7 to behave itself under SMF
I was chatting to Jerry Jelinek during the week on IM about an issue that I was working on debugging - the reason Crowd 2.0.7 was not behaving under SMF - it was being randomly killed off and never...
View ArticleSome gsed magic to insert a line below the regex matched text
So I'm working on finishing automating as much of my install fresh installations of Crowd, Confluence and JIRA. One of the things I was looking for is how to use gsed to insert some thing after a...
View ArticleGetting java to trust a SSL Certificate
After fixing a few bugs in vimfluence, I tried to connect edit some wiki pages on my personal Confluence wiki which sits behind a self-signed SSL certificate. It works something like: $ personalwiki...
View ArticleLocking down rpcbind on OpenSolaris
Every now and again one is asked how one can lock down rpcbind from with a shared-ip zone without being able to use ipfilter from within the zone. Fortunately tcpwrappers save the day by allowing us to...
View ArticleAtlassian JIRA and URL rewriting
Prior to JIRA 4.2.2, there was a bug JSP-70163 which can be easily fixed by telling apache to rewrite the URL when you use a different base via tomcat i.e. /jira instead of / when doing...
View ArticleLearning from others mistakes - move configs out of your boot loader
I'm a keen believer of learning from other folks mistakes and attempting to not repeat them. Source code disclosure and even worse configuration disclosure which happened with tumblr. One thing to...
View ArticleReverse Proxying Confluence and JIRA
At my $dayjob we use various products from Atlassian. Following the latest cohort of the JIRA security advisory, we needed a way to lock down access to our JIRA via our reverse proxies. Seeing we use...
View ArticleFixing Helpspot's incorrect gziping of css and javascript
Ran into a strange gzip encoding bug with HelpSpot my preferred Help Desk solution where it would return gzip encoded content for it's css and javascript php combiner scripts even when Nginx was...
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