As the bugfixed version 2.2.20 of the apache webserver hit the portage tree on gentoo, it’s safe to remove the security hacks which leaded to some uncool problems with Git. Finally things are going back to normal.
Tag: gentoo
Moving to git
Hope you don’t mind that the side effects of the last LinuxDay in Berlin are kicking in now: I am starting to make use of the new ideas and hints I could gather while being there. In this case, I am talking about my version control stuff, the Gentoo-Overlay we are maintaining here which we did move from […]
How to grant limited access to your server
It isn’t always easy to offer services to other people in the IT field – especially if you want to be sure to limit their access to their files and folders to ensure they cannot break things. To do that, we use rssh, the restricted shell. First of all, let’s start with the installation procedure, which is a […]
CentOS locked into a chroot
It’s not only a question of security if you decide to lock some services of the system in a chrooted environment to minimize the damage they are able to cause. We know debootstrap as a cool and simple way of doing a very easy debian chroot.
KDE4 drives me crazy
Since a system update during the last days, my system does strange things. As taking a closer look, the troublemakers are related to KDE. My first clue was a broken dependency which causes services to crash – so I ran revdep-rebuild.
A different kind of suicide
It is official by now that there are maniacs out there who already migrated their root-filesystem on BTRFS. So why not joining those freaks? Theoretically it shouldn’t be a big hassle: Boot a Live-CD, mount and backup the Linux partitions including their permission stuff to prevent breakage and dangle the Windows space in shape as you already have […]