FreeBSD, ruby 1.8.2, libpthreads

Wednesday, 09. 12. 2007  –  Category: all, vague

Anecdotally people recommend not using libpthread with Ruby on FreeBSD. I’ve duly always told the port to not use it, but ldd has always shown that it’s linked. autoconf insists on configuring the build with it, despite the –disable-pthread flag. My long time response to this was *shrug* – Ruby seems fine. Until a weird […]

krb5.conf and KDC protocol

Thursday, 08. 9. 2007  –  Category: all, sw

FreeBSD lets you do this: [realms]         FOO.FOOCORP.CO.UK = {                 kdc = tcp/kdc.foo.foocorp.co.uk         } Linux doesn’t let you specify the protocol, and will bork in a typically Kerberosly weird way should you try.

Debian / Ubuntu Exim wedging?

Tuesday, 08. 7. 2007  –  Category: all, sw

Is it doing TLS? It’s likely running out of entropy. Debian package Exim linked against GNU’s TLS library, rather than the more common OpenSSL. It’ll suck /dev/random dry very quickly. Lousy under-the-gun hack: root@shangrila:/dev# rm random && mknod -m 664 /dev/random c 1 9 root@shangrila:/dev# ls -l /dev/*random crw-rw-r– 1 root root 1, 9 Aug  7 […]