If you are running a web page on server which needs to be taken down due to maintenace reasons you probably need to cope with unrachability of your page during the downtime. This is generally done by serving a simple maintenance page explaining the reasons of downtime and estimated time when the page will be […]
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OpenLDAP version 2.3 comes with new LDAP Content Synchronization protocol which is described in RFC 4533 and is generally known as syncrepl. The older slurpd approach is obsolete and isn’t supported from OpenLDAP 2.4 Although syncrepl supports both master-slave and multi-master replications, there is only support for master-slave in OpenLDAP version 2.3 which also is […]
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We are running bunch of our applications on production Centos 5 servers and it happens sometimes that one of the processes crashes unexpectedly but not so often so that we could reproduce the behaviour and localize the problem. At this point having a possibility to turn on the debug mode in Linux definitely comes in […]
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