Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Setting up HTTPS on your Ubuntu Server

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

One of my duties as a sysadmin for Wikimedia is to install our ssl keys for our https servers. Now, this is something that is fairly easy to do, and once you do it once, doing it later is simple. However, I found the first time I did ...

Bug Squashed

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

I put in a bug report with Digium about the voicemail system in Asterisk sending out corrupt emails when caller id name information is corrupted, rather than parsing it as 'restricted.' That was on May 29th, It is now June 2nd, and they already gave me a patch. I am ...

Ubuntu Release Code Names

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Mark says I am boring, but I dislike having odd names for things. Our core application servers at wiki are named for what they do, srv# for apache, sq# for squids, db# for databases. However, that was not always the case, we have a number of servers with ...