apache

I am a huge fan of Sun Microsystems. I love Solaris 10. I love ZFS. I love RBAC. I love zones. I really love T2/T2+ processors. I especially love the T5140 and X4450 servers.

One thing I cannot figure out though, is why Sun lets obviously delirious cocaine addicts package their software. Maybe I'm exaggerating but I think that many will agree that Sun's packages leave much to be desired in general. On top of that, Sun seems to have a constant need to move software around and invent new paths- to boldy go where no sysadmin has gone before????

April 21, 2009

A new eBook by Issac G that explains how to setup a dedicated server using Webmin is now available from www.thededicatedserverhandbook.com. Videos from the book are also available on YouTube.

January 16, 2008

Step One

Run the following command on the key file to determine the modulus: openssl rsa -noout -text -in secure.server.com.pem

June 16, 2007

This post isn't going to solve anyone's problems but maybe someone will solve mine. I recently compiled and packaged a new release of php4 (4.4.7) for use with Sun's Apache2 (Solaris 10 11/06 patched). Unfortunately for some very strange reason, Apache segfaults whenever it tries to server a page. It segfaults even if the page has no php involved and only if the php module is loaded.

May 13, 2007

I googled for "Cloning Solaris Zones" and found lots of documentation on the zoneadm clone feature. I started to follow the howtos and hit a brick wall... my zoneadm doesn't know how to clone. Deeper digging shows that the documentation on Sun's site was for Solaris Express- Sun's bleeding edge version of OpenSolaris- Can I say "How useless!"

February 04, 2007