Category Archives: OSS

Useful RANCID Debugging Tips

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Barry O'Donovan

I always find it difficult to find a good reference for RANCID debugging strategies and, after spending the afternoon on doing same on one installation, put together my own list. Head over to my article on the company blog for the … Continue reading →

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Fix for Silly Annoying FreeBSD PHP Ports Errors

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Barry O'Donovan

The following occurs quite regularly on FreeBSD: Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the $PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable. Then, rerun this script. and when fixed, it’s followed up by: Cannot find autoheader. Please check your autoconf installation and … Continue reading →

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Testing SPAM and Virus Filters

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Barry O'Donovan

I’ve recently performed a complete upgrade of Open Solutions’ mail servers and I’ve now moved onto doing likewise for one of our ISP customers with a lot of users. These retrofits include installing virus and SPAM filters to protect both … Continue reading →

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Kubuntu 8.10 and Mobile Broadband (and KDE 4.1)

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Barry O'Donovan

Kubuntu 8.10 and mobile broadband – the KNetworkManager has come a long way! Continue reading →

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chan_ss7, pcap files and 64bit machines

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Barry O'Donovan

UPDATE: April 29th 2008 Anders Baekgaard of Dicea ApS (current chan_ss7 maintainers) recommends the following alternative patch. Please note that mtp3d.c will also need to be patched in the same way: — chan_ss7.c~ 2008-04-03 09:23:56.000000000 +0200 +++ chan_ss7.c 2008-04-29 08:29:20.000000000 … Continue reading →

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