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Nginx is a powerful web server and therefore our choice. Unfortunately, the Gentoo ebuild is missing one essential extension: a load balancer that is querying the servers not via round robin but by their current load. Therefore, we had to extend the …
Recently we realized that proftpd misses several modules that are available but not included in the standard distribution. Therefore, we created an ebuild. As time was short today, we only included mod_dnsbl. In the near future, we will add more modules. The ebuild is available on our SVN repository: http://dev.informations-compagnie.de/svn/gentoo/net-ftp/proftpd/proftpd-1.3.2b-r1.ebuild. Please have a look at …
You might know the situation, something happened, and afterwards you get error messages from Cyrus telling you that your databases just have crashed. Then, your Inbox is shown empty while the filesystem does show the correct files. What happened? Every Cyrus folder contains three files «cyrus.cache», «cyrus.header» and «cyrus.index». These are responsible for telling the mail …
We finally managed to release a package for the (currently) recent version of Best Practical’s Request Racker (rt). We added it to our layman / portage overlay. see the following article for information on how to add it to your portage tree. Additional Notes:
There are several packages which are masked at the moment. We …
Gentoo has, is and will be the distribution of our choice. As it is with every love, nothing is perfect. So is Gentoo. We missed the recent packages for Bestpractical’s Request Tracker. Therefore, we created our own Layman overlay. That’s a thing we were thinking of for a long time and now there was …