Added bonus is not having to spend a few hours upgrading the templates - it seems that they've fixed that broken feature this time around.

On FreeBSD, by default you don't get access to the seq command to generate sequences, so you naturally will use jot for your shell scripting needs for generating number sequences.

So for example, we want to start with 0 and increment to 4 (one cannot use variables in the bash sequence generator, so {0..$max} won't work here. So for example we have 5 logfiles that we want to grok on a server and another has 6 so instead of hardcoding the varible on each server like {0..4} where we have 4, {0..6} where we have 6, we use jot and some nasty piping commands to get that number.

root# jot 4     
1
2
3
4

Okay so misread the manual very quickly and try:

root# jot 0 4
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
*snip*
93211
93212
93213
93214

Pass the number of iterations (5), start (0) and where it ends (4):

root# jot 5 0 4
0
1
2
3
4

The latest version of Mozilla Firefox 3.5 has issues with wildcard SSL certificates and is giving warnings that "This Connection is Untrusted" when visiting https://service.servername.example.com/ - this is unfortunately an issue with the Mozilla Firefox 3.5 web browser. You will need to click on the "Add Exception..." link, ignore the warning about "You are about to override how Firefox identifies this site. Legitimate banks, stores, and other public sites will not ask you to do this.". Click on "Get Certificate" and then click on "Confirm Security Exception". A bug is being filled with Mozilla about this regression in their software.

Hopefully Mozilla can release a patch Firefox 3.5.1 which reverts this regression in their software.

Anyway here is the list of bugs I'm going to be keeping an eye on for this issue:

• Bug 495339 - wildcards in SSL certificates no longer match multiple levels of subdomain
• Bug 159483 - cert name matching: RFC 2818 vs. backwards compatibility (wildcards)
• Bug 491406 - *.wiki.sourceforge.net not valid site for *.sourceforge.net SSL certificate

$ git push
warning: You did not specify any refspecs to push, and the current remote
warning: has not configured any push refspecs. The default action in this
warning: case is to push all matching refspecs, that is, all branches
warning: that exist both locally and remotely will be updated.  This may
warning: not necessarily be what you want to happen.
warning: 
warning: You can specify what action you want to take in this case, and
warning: avoid seeing this message again, by configuring 'push.default' to:
warning:   'nothing'  : Do not push anything
warning:   'matching' : Push all matching branches (default)
warning:   'tracking' : Push the current branch to whatever it is tracking
warning:   'current'  : Push the current branch
Everything up-to-date

A basically static site took a while longer as I misread a page in the documentation and then had files sitting in the incorrect location. One still needs a bootstrap.js file even if you intend on just serving up static files.

Seems like one needs to tell git to only attempt to push the currrent branch using the following command gets rid of the warning when using git push in future:

$ git config push.default current

Turns out there is a bug of sorts with the FreeBSD vr driver which needs some fixing so moral of the story for the moment is not using vr based network cards till this is fixed.

Tired of seeing:

Status: 500 Internal Server Error Content-Type: text/html 500 Internal Server Error

How difficult is it to fix something that was not broken when it was Summize?

This is what a reply from twitter looks like:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:52:44 GMT
Server: hi
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Cache-Control: max-age=300
Expires: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:57:44 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Varnish: 1089043412
Age: 0
X-Cache-Svr: searchweb008.twitter.com
X-Cache: MISS
Via: 1.1 varnish, 1.1 bc1-rba
Content-Length: 122
Connection: Keep-Alive
Set-Cookie: _search_twitter_sess=*snipped*; path=/

Status: 500 Internal Server Error

Content-Type: text/html

500 Internal Server Error

UPDATE:

Okay it's up if I go via reverse proxy in the USA - so it's just down for South Africans.

UPDATE:

IS have added some rules to their netcaches and search.twitter.com is working again.

# cfgmaker public@127.0.0.1
Can't locate SNMP_util.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/bin/../lib/mrtg2 /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .) at /usr/local/bin/cfgmaker line 105.

Turned out SNMP_util is missing and required a quick install of SNMP_Session to make cfgmaker work.

cd /usr/ports/*/p5-SNMP_Session
make install clean

One can see that the dependency list for mrtg excludes SNMP_Session:

# pkg_info -rR mrtg-2.16.2,1
Information for mrtg-2.16.2,1:

Depends on:

Dependency: perl-5.8.8_1

Dependency: p5-Socket6-0.22

Dependency: p5-Pod-Parser-1.35_2

Dependency: p5-IO-Socket-INET6-2.56

Dependency: p5-Digest-SHA1-2.11

Dependency: p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01

Dependency: p5-Crypt-CBC-2.30

Dependency: p5-Crypt-DES-2.05

Dependency: p5-Net-SNMP-5.2.0

Dependency: png-1.2.32

Dependency: jpeg-6b_7

Dependency: pkg-config-0.23_1

Dependency: freetype2-2.3.7

Dependency: libiconv-1.11_1

Dependency: gd-2.0.35,1

Anyways I need to send-pr a patch for the port to get this fixed in the ports tree.

Download the patch files by using the following script and apply them into each directory under vendor/rails by running rails-updater.sh.

If you have issues with patching files (like when using svn eol-style:native for files) you may need to grab the failed files by doing 'gem unpack component' and copying those files over and removing the reject files. I've tested the patches on a couple of open source apps and it applied cleanly except to one working copy.

patching file CHANGELOG

patching file Rakefile

patching file lib/action_mailer/base.rb

patching file lib/action_mailer/vendor/text-format-0.6.3/text/format.rb

Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.

1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file lib/action_mailer/vendor/text-format-0.6.3/text/format.rb.rej

patching file lib/action_mailer/vendor/tmail-1.2.3/tmail/parser.rb

Hunk #1 FAILED at 12.

1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file lib/action_mailer/vendor/tmail-1.2.3/tmail/parser.rb.rej

patching file lib/action_mailer/version.rb

patching file test/abstract_unit.rb

Another way to fetch the files is to fetch them from the github website using url's like:

http://github.com/rails/rails/tree/v2.1.1//?raw=true

i.e. for the failed lib/action_mailer/vendor/text-format-0.6.3/text/format.rb mentioned above we would fetch it from the following URL - http://github.com/rails/rails/tree/v2.1.1/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/vendor/text-format-0.6.3/text/format.rb?raw=true.