Computer Tips -Tech Info

By default the apache install for most sites now restricts directory browsing. It’s a good idea, you don’t want just ANYTHING to be browsable on a web server, but there comes a time that it makes life easier for a directory (or tree of directories) to be browsable without having to write (copy and paste) […]

Since I have a few old Mandrake 10.0 servers out there churning along, I’ve rebuilt the Clamav package to reflect the recent security fix version 0.88.2 is up on the site at http://www.averyjparker.com/wp-content/downloads/clamav882/ As always, the rpms are here more for my convenience than anything else, rebuilt straight from the cooker package and built on […]

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this complaint from the bash shell when trying to remove a bunch of files. In this case, I was trying to clear a directory where log rotating had run amuck and there was a 10 second lag in typing ls ∗.gz and seeing any output…. So, […]

In the last couple days there have been new security releases of both clamantivirus (0.88.2 is now the current) and Mozilla-Firefox (1.0.3 is the current release over there). If you use either of these programs you should be looking to update. I’ve been busy looking at getting src.rpm’s recompiled here for various Mandr-ake/iva’s and if […]