If you plan to use URLBlacklist.com or Shalla rules in Dansguardian you may suffer from very slow (or impossible) restarts of the daemon. Dansguardian prefers the rules randomized rather than [...]
Nov
2010
Screen – Watching 2 log files at once
I needed to tail two log files in one terminal so on the server I was using: yum install screen [or apt-get install screen]screenCtrl-A c [create new session]Ctrl-A Shift-s [spilt [...]
Nov
2010
Building an RPM Package (DansGuardian 2.10)
After putting together an RPM for DansGuardian v2.10.1.1 I thought I would make a few notes. The version of DansGuardian in the repositories is currently version 2.8 and the only [...]
Nov
2010
Business Value of Open Source Software – Mark Shuttleworth
I was at the Enterprise Ireland ‘The Business Value of Open Source Software’ event yesterday. The speakers included: Simon Phipps (Open Source Initiative) Tim Willoughby and Tom Mackey (Limerick City [...]
Nov
2010
Text mangling with Grep, Sed and Awk
Just an example for future reference of text mangling on unix/linux making use of sed, awk, and grep on a CSV/text file containing names, email addresses etc delimited with a [...]
Nov
2010
PHP Reporting Errors
To get PHP error reporting for a file or web application use one of the following methods:1. Add the following to the PHP code in the file: error_reporting(E_ALL);ini_set(‘display_errors’, ’1′); 2. [...]
Nov
2010
Firefox Windows 7 and Linux proxy.pac
Had a problem today with Firefox on Windows 7 and Firefox on Linux. Upon reading our proxy.pac (wpad) file the if statements were not working: if(isInNet(myIpAddress(), “123.111.123.0″,”255.255.254.0″)) According to this [...]

