Archive for the 'System Adminstration' Category

WebDAV RPMS

Monday, December 12th, 2005

WebDAV is going to be a part of my build environment. I will use it publish web archives and Javadoc from Ant. This keeps me from having to mess around with Ant’s flakier tasks like SSH, SCP, or FTP. I’ll specify an artifact output directory that is a mounted WebDAV directory when it comes time […]

Roll Your Own Certifiate Authority

Monday, December 5th, 2005

Created my own certificate authority. Here are the notes.
First off, save time and tedium by using TinyCA. The dialog boxes have the appropriate defaults, and generally do the right thing. Otherwise, I find myself pecking out complicated openssl invocations, transcribed from the mod_ssl FAQ.
My VIAO Z505 is still kicking, running W2k and FC 4 […]

SpamAssassin

Sunday, December 4th, 2005

Stunningly little is going on in my life right now. I’ve been working with SpamAssassin, and there’s little to say about it really, except that it works. It’s amazing that it works. I’m very pleased with it.
It’s not a blog worthy project, since this software is pretty well documented. I’m reading the SpamAssassin book from […]

WebDAV

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

Installed an running. Upgraded to run the YourKit profiler. Also, I’m moving servers this month, and I want to unify my services before I move, reducing the servers I run to a bare minium.
Thus, I want to work with WebDAV. Instead of running in integration builds on the server, I’d like to run them locally, […]

Easy Install From Subversion

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

I’d like to keep all of my project specific shell scripts under version control. I usually write them in place, and forget they exist.
My first pass at this, was to include an install script, which was no fun. It was a complicated. It added a step that wasn’t there before.
Then I decided that I’m going […]