We’ve written a check for detecting the Fokirtor backdoor.

Our upstream-provider needed to change the VLAN-ID of our uplink to be in line with their policies. We wanted to do this with minimal downtime. Check out the script we ran on the gateway machines, the VLAN-IDs were changed almost instantly, total unavailability was less than a second.

How to solve the ‘No module named svn’ Trac error.

An Icinga check to detect rogue Apache modules.

Over the years, we have performed some experiments at Kumina to run the FreeBSD operating system inside KVM. The main problem with FreeBSD was the lack of proper virtio drivers. As of recently FreeBSD gained support for virtio, renewing our interest in testing FreeBSD.

We had problems with our Crypto Stick ‘hanging’ randomly. An experimental patch from libusb fixes this. We have released packages with this fix.

One of our customers uses a piece of software that depends on the MAC address of the running system. Unfortunately this application misbehaves when used on Amazon EC2 cloud computing. Therefore we have written a small piece of software called fakemac.

Today we ran into a problem where the data put in ActiveMQ by the puppetmaster seemed corrupted in some way. When running the puppet queue daemon on the foreground (with –debug –verbose –no-daemonize), we noticed messages like these: info: Loaded queued catalog in 22.16 seconds debug: Searched for resources in 0.31 seconds err: Could not […]