Tag Archives: portage

Gentoo ebuild: Nginx With Support For Upstream Fair Proxy Load Balancer

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Direktion

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 … Continue reading →

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ProFTPD with mod_dnsbl as gentoo ebuild

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Marcus Pauli

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 … Continue reading →

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rebuilding Cyrus indexes

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Marcus Pauli

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 … Continue reading →

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Request Tracker 3.8.2 on gentoo

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Marcus Pauli

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 … Continue reading →

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our own gentoo portage overlay

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Marcus Pauli

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 … Continue reading →

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