Dependency Addict :: The KN Admin Blog

The server’s been working well.  Nothing out of the ordinary, except for one instance in which the SSH daemon crashed.  But daemons are evil, no? 
What will be the next surprise?  What will break next?  Will something break, in fact?  I hope not, but I’m sure that the probability of nothing breaking over a […]

Using stock packages from your operating system vendor sounds so sweet.  And yet, you fall prey to the most horrid of software misconfigurations.
Item.  Apache 2.0.52 is installed on the Krimson News server from nowhere else but the CentOS 4 package mirror–the standard repository for CentOS 4.2-compatible software.  As soon as I installed that package, the […]

After hours of trying out different settings with Apache (the web server Krimson News runs on), I finally found out that mod_status is the culprit that caused the horribly unacceptable system loads over the last few days.  Why exactly this should be, I don’t know–mod_status worked well for ages on the old server and the […]

Well, Krimson News seems to have some speed problems.  Not that the site is too fast, but that it gets bogged down at random times.  Huge log files were a problem yesterday (over the course of a week, we racked up about 40 MB of log data for www.krimson-news.com alone), but that’s fixed now.  My […]

I swore I’d never blog again.  That was–when?–late July 2006.  Oh, well, there go my mid-year resolutions: out the window, onto the street and driven over by a gasoline-chugging Hummer.
This blog has one single purpose: to keep you up-to-date with all things tech peculiar to Krimson News.  If something’s down, you’ll read about it here […]