FreeBSD Plesk 8 – installing php5 as CGI alongside php4

By On November 26, 2007 · Leave a Comment

If you have ever needed php5 to run along side php4, you can always compile php5 as a CGI, and let php4 remain as an apache module.

Here we’ve compiled php5 from FreeBSD’s ports, and have installed it as a CGI so that specific vhosts will run on this new php5. The installation was done [...]

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Updating Spamassassin on FreeBSD and Plesk

By On November 21, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Updating Spamassassin on Plesk and FreeBSD is quite simple without breaking things since the Spamassassin on Plesk is pretty standard.

System: FreeBSD 6.x
Plesk Version: 8.0.x

May work with other versions.

The stock plesk Spamassassin is a 3.1.x variant, which gets pretty old pretty quick. You can upgrade this via the ports by passing [...]

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Keeping servers and workstations on time using cron and ntpdate

By On October 3, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I’m a fan of having all my computers report the same time, especially when I have to cross reference logs on different servers and require the times to all match up.

I’ve used rdate to update time in the past, but lately have been using ntpdate, which seems to be quite a bit better.

One [...]

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FreeBSD pkgdb.db error

By On April 4, 2007 · 1 Comment

What happens with FreeBSD pkg and ports ends up with a corrupted database?

This happens from time to time, here’s how it was solved:

# pkgdb -F
—> Checking the package registry database
[Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the pkgdb [...]

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