This also means that we are [...]]]> Last Thursday we had our echo that you get at 20 weeks. Ruby, the one making the echo, checked various things that would imply medical issues. Luckily she was unable to find anything. Obviously that only is a visual inspection but from that inspection things appear to be good.

This also means that we are half way through! Denise is doing fine, apart from backing pains (which are quite severe), and the babyroom is nearing completion as well so we are ready for the baby ..

I had fixed the issue. Instead of using nullfs to get access to the /usr/home directories, I am using unionfs, which basically does the same for my goals (unless someone corrects me in misunderstanding things) and this does not seem to generate the same issues. Various sites are now running happily behind the [...]]]> Dear Reader,

I had fixed the issue. Instead of using nullfs to get access to the /usr/home directories, I am using unionfs, which basically does the same for my goals (unless someone corrects me in misunderstanding things) and this does not seem to generate the same issues. Various sites are now running happily behind the WWW Jail. Time to finish my document on how I did setup the entire beast.

Thanks all for listening, helping, and giving tips (Alexander and Miroslav!)

Things started to break when I redirected external traffic to the jail. It seemed that require_once(dirname(dirname(__FILE__))) . ‘/wp-load.php’; does not work from within the jail.

I decided to do a [...]]]> So, I am still building up my jail structure and the last few evenings I was testing the FreeBSD jail wrt. PHP, Apache22-mpm-itk and wordpress.

Things started to break when I redirected external traffic to the jail. It seemed that require_once(dirname(dirname(__FILE__))) . ‘/wp-load.php’; does not work from within the jail.

I decided to do a little test and testing reveals that in a stand alone configuration the dirnames behave exactly the same, in both the host and the jail. Printing the directive within WordPress (when loading the admin pages f.ex.) reveals a ‘.’ instead of the ‘/path’ . It is resolvable by adding a ‘.’ to the directive so that wp-admin/admin.php loads the ../wp-load.php file instead of ‘/path/to/wordpress/wp-load.php’. Though this sounds very sily todo.

Did someone else encounter this? I Do not want to change enforcement of the statfs to some other value since the defaults should be good enough (given the testsript).

Relevant details: the /usr/home where the public_html files live, are nullfs rw mounted from the host and are available in the jail. The jail does username/group lookups through Ldap, and can see the various users. Apache had been build with the ITK patches so that every host runs under his/her own user. I do not see obvious differences between the regular host and the jail, the only real difference is the internal/external addresses used in the vhost configuration, but that is kinda obvious to me.

Let me know

I also understand merging much better then before, taking [...]]]> Lately I have become more active then the last year in total for FreeBSD. I committed several enhancements that were in my queue already for a long time, but finally came into the FreeBSD tree. Some too late for 8.3 which is upcoming and some not.

I also understand merging much better then before, taking the time for a commit and making a few mistakes really helps, and ofcourse the community is not too shy to mention my faults

One of the things that got committed is the force setting of carp, whether it’s a master or backup node (make sure pre-empt is disabled if you do this, else it will just rollback within seconds ), which eases maintenance for example. One of the other things is that I am using an extensive network of local jails now that service my needs, most seperated items. I also started writing an Howto (or bsdmag article if there is interest) to demonstrate and tell how we setup most items. One of the things that is still causing me headaches is that we have nullfs rw mounts of /home to the jails because mailservers need to write, ftp servers need to write etc. But if we were sharing these information sources via NFS we would have had the same challenges

I feel good in taking the time for FreeBSD again, and I would like to hear recommendations on what targets I can persue in FreeBSD (low hanging fruit is good enough for the time being) and additional things, also please comment on the nullfs mounts (rw,nosuid) to enhance my security level and which makes my article even better

It is with very great pleasure that I would like to tell you, that we (Denise, Luca and myself) are expecting our second child. Currently we are around 12 weeks and everything is looking good.

We saw the first images of our soon kid and new FreeBSD Hacker? He or she is looking [...]]]> Dear all,

It is with very great pleasure that I would like to tell you, that we (Denise, Luca and myself) are expecting our second child. Currently we are around 12 weeks and everything is looking good.

We saw the first images of our soon kid and new FreeBSD Hacker? He or she is looking beautiful already. We do not yet know the gender, but we are expecting the kid around the beginning of September.

Luca is also happy with these developments, so everything is in the works (actively as we speak) to move his room to the upperfloor, and we are going to prepare his old room for the baby.

Leave a message so that I can read them later on (I would like that): do realise that it’s moderated and that it might take a little before I can acknowledge your message

You will need a .mov player to see what how and what

At work something strange [...]]]> Somethign strange happened at work today. I was just sitting at my desk, and then.. it happened.. Just take a look at the movie that was made by one of my collegue’s from within my project

At work something strange happened…