Indeed, there is much crappy PHP [http://php.net] application code out there in the wild. Anyways ... when you have to care about webservers you may have systems which are relying on PHP. Upgrading this systems to the next major PHP version may break projects hosted on those systems, cause…
Unfortunately ownCloud [http://owncloud.org] is not available in Debian wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy]. Even if it was promised [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-owncloud-maintainers/Week-of-Mon-20130304/000434.html] to provide a package via backports [http://backports.debian.org/], this seems [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/…
Some of you might have noticed there is a new nagios-plugins [http://nagiosplugins.org/] version in the row [http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=31356051]. To support upstream in evaluating bugs and bringing the code to a wider audience, I uploaded [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nagios-devel/…
Roundcube [http://www.roundcube.net/] is one of the well known [https://www.google.com/search?q=webmail+opensource] OpenSource solutions for accessing Mails via webinterface. Unfortunately the package [http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/roundcube.html] in wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy] is ~2 years old. In…
Since 2 weeks I'm faced with some problems at a Xen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen] hosting environment based on Debian [http://www.debian.org] wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/]. The issue is, that one specific domU is regularly failing network. The investigations showed, that…
Mailscanner [http://www.mailscanner.info/intro.html] is an e-mail security and anti-spam solution for e-mail gateways. In combination of postfix [http://www.postfix.org] it uses a very ugly way [http://www.mailscanner.info/postfix.html] messing around in postfixs queue directories. Anyways .. if you are still interested, keep…
If you updated recently your system to Debian [http://www.debian.org] wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/] and you are using vsftpd [https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html#about] with enabled chrooted local users ... [~] # grep -i ^chroot_local_user=yes /etc/vsftpd.conf | tail -1 chroot_local_user=…
Also this year the Debian [http://www.debian.org/about/] project was present at Chemnitzer Linuxtage [http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2013/], this time right next the debianforum.de [http://debianforum.de] booth. The booth folks arriving on Friday organized a flashmob at Expitas [http://espitas.de] after booth setup. Unfortunately…