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I am a Unix Systems Administrator by trade and have designed, installed, and administered Solaris, BSD, Linux and HP-UX environments in the last 8 years. I enjoy working in high presured environments with mission critical systems. I have worked on various opensource and commercial projects over this period of time.

My hobbies are developing automation tools, perl/php programming, watching sports, visiting friends and family, surfing the net and keeping up with the latest trends in Information Technology.

I am currently (happily) employed by Freezone Internet as a Senior UNIX Systems Administrator

Name: Leon de Jager
Location: London

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Definition

UNIX:

Modern operating system carefully crafted to prevent administrators from shooting themselves in the foot [1].

[1] Interestingly, most utilities have a command line option which will cause the system to rip the user's legs off and beat them to death with the soggy ends. This is often the default behaviour.


A Comparison of Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD Kernels

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/article/2005-10-14_a_comparison_of_solaris__linux__and_freebsd_kernels/


Job change

I recently started working for Freezone Internet as a UNIX Systems Administrator along with my lecturer who taught me Sun Solaris Administration at Bickenhall College of Computing.

It's a real fun job where I work on multi platform UNIX operating systems.

I dont have as much free time on my hands to update the site regularly, when I do get a chance i'll update where necesary.


Policyd Build Error

Error:

policyd error Your OS doesnt support MSG_NOSIGNAL or SO_NOSIGPIPE

Resolution:

apt-get install g++ gcc


policyd.h:52:19: error: mysql.h: No such file or directory

apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev


FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:17.sendmail

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2006/Jun/0398.html


FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:16.smbfs

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2006/Jun/0001.html


FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:15.ypserv

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2006/Jun/0002.html


UK

Back in the UK after a short visit to South Africa about a month ago...

Recently moved to my old flat where I used to stay when I first came to London and slowly but surely getting all the machines back online :-)


FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:13.sendmail

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2006/Mar/0399.html


FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:12.opie

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2006/Mar/0400.html


FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:11.ipsec

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2006/Mar/0401.html


FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:09.openssh [REVISED]

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2006/Mar/0004.html


FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:10.nfs

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2006/Mar/0003.html


FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:08.sack

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2006/Feb/0019.html


FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2006/Jan/0175.html


FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:02.ee

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2006/Jan/0176.html


FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:01.texindex

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2006/Jan/0177.html


FreeBSD-SA-06:04.ipfw

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:04.ipfw.asc


UKUUG Spring Conference 2006

http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/


Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all, wishing you the best for 2006! :-)


FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/announce.html


Return of The BSDs

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526


OpenBSD 3.8

OpenBSD 3.8 has been released!

http://www.openbsd.org

What? You still dont have it?


Selecting a Secure Enterprise OS: Don't Make the First Step the Wrong Step

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=421896&seqNum=1


FreeBSD 6.0RC1

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-October/018790.html


FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:21.openssl

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Oct/0122.html


FreeBSD Status Report

http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-mar-2005-june-2005.html


FreeBSD sysctl

I've found this good site on sysctl while googling along...

http://sysctl.enderunix.org/


FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:20.cvsbug

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Sep/0069.html


Upgrade

The server has been upgraded to Apache/2.0.54 and PHP/5.0.4. I've accidently deleted my backup of the project directory and had to restore everything from previous backups. Some information might be outdated because of this.

I am busy analyzing what can be saved from the HDD, as soon as I can establish what I can restore, all functionality should be restored fully.

* I've managed to get *some* of the project data back using lazarus and unrm from the coroners toolkit, the only data i couldn't get back is the administration panel files wich isn't a big issue - I can always redo it.

Any updates will be posted here.


FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:19.ipsec

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jul/0439.html


FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:18.zlib

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jul/0451.html


FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:17.devfs

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jul/0333.html


FreeBSD 6 RELENG_6 branch has been created

FreeBSD's Ken Smith says that as part of the FreeBSD-6.0 Release Cycle the RELENG_6 branch tag has just been created in the CVS repository. In preparation for the release some places in the tree now say that this branch is -STABLE but there is still work to do before this branch will be ready for release. Furthermore, Robert Watson informs us that a variety of debugging features are still enabled by default in RELENG_6, including INVARINTS, WITNESS, and user space malloc debugging.


FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:16.zlib

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jul/0053.html


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