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  • 03-03-2004 4:33am
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    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    There'll be some downtime later on this morning for some upgrading and maintenance of the webserver.

    All going well it'll be back in the time it takes for you to get yourself a cuppa!
    Post edited by Shield on


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    po0k
    Registered Users Posts: 15,815 ✭✭✭✭po0k


    Hardware or software upgrade?
    Could you give a few details?

    Just curious :)


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    Moriarty
    Registered Users Posts: 6,007 ✭✭✭Moriarty


    /me gets to work on an 'ecksor says oops' card


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    #4
    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    Back now! No oops!!
    Originally posted by SyxPak
    Hardware or software upgrade?
    Could you give a few details?

    Just curious :)

    Needed a kernel upgrade for this little bugger:
    http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=78
    ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04%3A04.tcp.asc


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    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    do you ever sleep eck??!!


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    #6
    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    I can't keep my beady little eyes on the likes of ye if I'm asleep.


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    #7
    mr_angry
    Registered Users Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭mr_angry


    I should back up my sig now, huh?


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    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    Nope, you should have backed it up this morning.

    We actually backed it up for you.


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    #9
    mr_angry
    Registered Users Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭mr_angry


    Ah, the benefits of hindsight, eh? :D


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    #10
    po0k
    Registered Users Posts: 15,815 ✭✭✭✭po0k


    "FreeBSD Memory Buffer Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability"

    Fair enough :)



    As an aside, any chance of a page (maybe under the "boards.ie" drop-down menu) describing the hardware/software config of Boards.ie (obviously not exact program version numbers etc.)?


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    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    I actually don't know what the hardware is.

    Roughly the current setup is two machines, both running FreeBSD 4.9
    Webserver is apache 1.3 and php4, both close enough to up to date. php has a few bells and whistles enabled to let the webmail and other stuff work. Database is mysql 3.something, again close enough to up to date but not quite there.

    Pretty bog standard for a vbulletin setup ...

    Only slightly unusual thing we have is that mysql is built with linux threads rather than linking with the native freebsd threading libraries. mysql and freebsd don't like each other normally :)

    Oh, we also run mail services, courtesy of qmail and qmail-pop3d and DNS services using tinydns.


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    regi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,279 ✭✭✭regi


    Muppet (webserver) is a Dell 2450 with two Pentium 3 733 CPUs and 1 GB of ram. Wang (database server) is a Dell 2450 with two pentium 3 933 CPUs and 1.75 GB of ram. Both enjoy RAID 1. Who needs Xeons or Opterons? :D

    MySQL is actually version 4.x, the query cache is very nice.

    We'll upgrade to FreeBSD 5.x and Apache 2 later in the year.


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    #13
    regi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,279 ✭✭✭regi


    Oh, I'm the DJB fanboy too :)


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    #14
    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    I said 3.x because it failed to recognise an SQL UNION for me the other day, which is why a certain feature I promised isn't working ...


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