I wanted to install flac v1.1.4 on my FC6 box but there is no RPM for FC6.

I installed from source but got this error when running flac:

flac: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libFLAC.so.8: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied

This is an SELinux problem. I fixed it using:

chcon -t textrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/libFLAC.so.8*

I have a xen box running FC6 with a couple of guest machines (also running FC6). The hardware has two network interfaces, eth0 (10/100MB/s) and eth1 (1GB/s). I was using eth0 as the primary interface but I've just got a gigabit switch and want to move the machine onto it. So I've reconfigured the host to use eth1 as the primary interface.

Here's what I needed to change to get xen to use the new interface.

I recently needed to install Java onto a CentOS 5 machine.
Instructions are available at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaOnCentOS but I found that they didn't work with the latest JDK from Sun.
Here's what I did:

After battling for several months with various root kits on the server hosting this site I've finally admitted defeat and taken it offline.

I've moved this blog plus my projects and downloads onto another machine so it *should* be business as usual.

Please drop me an email and let me know if you find anything that's broken.

After getting root-kitted due to a vulerability in the rich text editor used by geeklog, I took the server hosting this site offline.

I'm in the process of moving the whole lot to a new server, but in the meantime, I've brought the server back online.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

R.

Link for proxy testing: joe@example.com

Notes on how to download 1:25,000 mapping from multimap.com and tile them together into one image.

As a child, I used to spend many an happy hour fishing on the local "beck". I used to read books about barbel and dream of catching one. Tonight, I caught my first.

Apologies for any problems you may have experienced with this site in the past week or so, but I've been attacked by "script kiddies".

A security exploit has been published which affects geeklog (it affects the mcpuk filemanager component of the FCKeditor - more details here) and they've been hammering my site.

I managed to upgrade last night so things should settle down a little now. However, there may be certain elements of the site that still do not work correctly.

Please drop me an email and let me know if you find anything that's broken.

Here's how to build kaffeine from the latest svn source on FC5.

The SELinux rules required to for MySQL clustering to work on FC4 are as follows:

allow mysqld_t port_t:tcp_socket name_connect;
allow mysqld_t var_lib_t:file append;
allow mysqld_t var_lib_t:sock_file create;
allow mysqld_t var_lib_t:file read;
allow mysqld_t var_lib_t:sock_file unlink;
allow mysqld_t var_lib_t:file { getattr write };

See Making an application work with SELinux for details of how to determine which rules are required to get an application to work with SELinux and how to apply them.