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LXCenter, the newly formed community group to replace what was LXLabs, have finally published the HyperVM and Kloxo source-code and opened access to the development and hosting communities… but is LXCenter, and ultimately HyperVM’s community, now dead and deserted by it’s once loyal supporters? (continue reading…)

Recently RedHat pushed out a pretty major bugfix advisory for wget which addresses the following issues:

286161 – “wget –recursive” only retrieves index.html instead of all files
436822 – wget ignores ‘-P’ when Content-Disposition set on server
459679 – wget –mirror failing to retrieve files on FTP site
492672 – –no-content-disposition option aborts wget

Unfortunately at the time I’m writing this the v1.11.4 of wget has not been pushed out to any of the CentOS repositories.  (continue reading…)

suPHP… Just Use It!

What is suPHP you might ask?  Well short of me explaining in detail what you can read elsewhere check out this link if you have any questions past my short description: http://www.suphp.org/FAQ.html

“suPHP is a tool for executing PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners. It consists of an Apache module (mod_suphp) and a setuid root binary (suphp) that is called by the Apache module to change the uid of the process executing the PHP interpreter.”

So you might be asking yourself whats the point in restructuring your PHP enviroment to utilize ‘suPHP’ instead of ‘phpsuexec.’  Probably the best reasons are protection of user’s files, better details for logging and monitoring services, which in turn protects servers, clients, and end-users from spammers. (continue reading…)