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08-14-03, 09:59
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Announcement: H-Sphere owners are encouraged to volunteer
Positive Software is looking for H-Sphere owners (Unix and especially FreeBSD installations)
to test H-Sphere apache 1.3.28 update that upgrades apache-cp (cp), apache-webbox (web)
and apache-weblite (mail-only).

The upgrade will be performed by Psoft system administrators.

Volunteers are welcome to contact support@psoft.net
08-14-03, 19:57
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bravid98
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Will this update require that everyone with custom PHP builds recompile?
08-14-03, 21:54
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I am a brave soul...

email sent.
08-14-03, 22:02
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I would but have had to many issues as of late.. I want stable h-sphere beast for a little bit..

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08-14-03, 22:04
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stable.... BAH!

hehe I know the feeling. I been pretty lucky lately.
08-15-03, 10:19
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Quote:
Originally posted by bravid98
Will this update require that everyone with custom PHP builds recompile?
The php will be reinstalled too.
But you can place your old php module back and use it with this new apache.
Otherwise, you can recompile the last php version according to your needs.

Please find the configure string we use to build the last apache php module below.

FreeBSD:
./configure \
--localstatedir=/var/hsphere/php \
--with-apxs=/hsphere/shared/apache/bin/apxs \
--with-openssl=/usr \
--with-zlib=/usr \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr \
--with-bz2=/usr/local \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local \
--enable-ftp \
--with-gd=/usr/local \
--with-png-dir=/usr/local \
--with-gettext=/usr/local \
--with-imap=/hsphere/shared \
--with-mysql=/usr/local \
--with-pgsql=/usr/local \
--enable-sockets \
--with-zip=/usr/local \
--enable-versioning \
--enable-track-vars \
--enable-trans-sid \
--disable-debug


Linux:
./configure \
--localstatedir=/var/hsphere/php \
--with-apxs=/hsphere/shared/apache/bin/apxs \
--with-openssl=/usr \
--with-zlib=/usr \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr \
--with-bz2=/usr \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr \
--enable-ftp \
--with-gd=/usr \
--with-png-dir=/usr \
--with-gettext=/usr \
--with-imap=/hsphere/shared \
--with-mysql=/usr \
--with-pgsql=/usr \
--enable-sockets \
--with-zip=/usr \
--enable-versioning \
--enable-track-vars \
--enable-trans-sid \
--disable-debug


Also, don't forget that H-Sphere installation doesn't contain all the needed to rebuild apache libraries and header files, therefore you'll need to installa same additional packages. Make sure that you have the following packages installed, usually it's enough:
binutils
cpp
libc-kernelheaders
glibc-devel
gcc
db1-devel
db2-devel
db3-devel
db3-utils
patch
gdbm-devel
libjpeg-devel
libpng-devel
zlib-devel
libzzip-devel
pam-devel
flex
libstdc++-devel
gcc-c++


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08-15-03, 10:50
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hopsis
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They updated me a few hours ago. The CP machine runs MUCH faster now. Very Snappy!.. No issues.

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08-15-03, 10:52
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rrolfe
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had a webshell issue with untaring a file after the install. Submitted ticket for that. nothing else seems to have gone wrong though
08-15-03, 14:52
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But weren't apache 1.3.28 problems related with Apache release itself and had nothing to do with H-Sphere? Or this is a patched release of Apache itself?
08-15-03, 14:59
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rrolfe
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yeah it was.. looks like just bad timing. they said its a known webshell problem and that they will fix in 10 mins.

of course, that was hours ago.
08-15-03, 18:09
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What I was saying is if this 1.3.28 new upgrade differs from the first one in terms of Apache release itself since I've seen in other forums that 1.3.28 had problems with zombie processes being left behind and I'm not sure if there was a new apache release fixing these problems.
08-15-03, 21:57
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Yes, Flesk, you are right cgi problems with 1.3.28
Last I read on apache bugtraq was a patch that reversed the behaviour back to 1.3.27 the another patch that fixed the 1.3.28 behavior the new way.

But I have no idea if the applied it to the sources yet

My guess is, on the CP Server that should be no issue at all, but CAREFULL on the webboxes !!!
08-18-03, 08:40
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Greetings:

Any word on how this upgrade impacts CGI scripts on H-Sphere Web servers?

Thank you.

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08-18-03, 08:43
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The new version 1.3.28 includes the patch that fixes the issue with zobie processes left over by suExec. I believe thats the issue you are reffering too.
08-18-03, 08:44
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bcarlos
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Yes, you are right, that was the main issue with first 1.3.28 release.
08-18-03, 08:49
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Greetings:

Not to be dense, but is the version installed by Positive Software for 1.3.28 the verison that is completely fixed with all patches?

Meaning, there will not be CGI problems for the H-Sphere Web server?

Thank you.
08-18-03, 09:00
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Quote:
Originally posted by dynamicnet
Greetings:

Not to be dense, but is the version installed by Positive Software for 1.3.28 the verison that is completely fixed with all patches?

Meaning, there will not be CGI problems for the H-Sphere Web server?

Thank you.
I think so. It runs on several hosts right now with no issues. We also applied all the necessary patches, and did a lot of testing in the mean while.
08-18-03, 10:58
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Well since we were upgrade look at our memory usuage. Thinks look more stable now.
http://www.hsphere.us/memloads.php

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08-19-03, 08:34
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Originally posted by ghost
Well since we were upgrade look at our memory usuage. Thinks look more stable now.
http://www.hsphere.us/memloads.php

Is http://www.hsphere.us/ a custom script, that looks really nice.. I like the images there kind of cool.. Is it RRDTOOL or MRTG making them.. Would like to add something like that to our servers would be a big help..

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08-19-03, 08:48
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He is using Server Status 2:
http://www.rushland.net/projects.htm

Looks like he just did some customizing. We have been using it for some time now.

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08-19-03, 08:55
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The graphs are using rrdtool. It is about 50% custom, but based off these scripts as starting point. http://www.ag0ny.com/graphs/

The health/voltage scripts came around from using the installed program: http://healthd.thehousleys.net/

And yes stats are what digi said.

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08-19-03, 08:59
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ghost
I meant to add very nice job!

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08-19-03, 09:05
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Thanks,

Here is my next project for
http://cp.hsphere.us/psoft/servlet/p...ter/index.html

this is viewable by customers from there cp and the admin can update it from within the cp and add there own graphs. Hopefully I will make it better but this is a start. Sorry to take this topic off topic.

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08-19-03, 09:17
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digi
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Very nice. This is something our users would love to have.

Most threads go off topic if they are around long enough.

Please keep us updated!

Digi

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08-19-03, 11:35
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bcarlos
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Back on topic, we are installing a new web box with hsinst scripts and it is already installing apache 1.3.28-2.

Is this the latest apache version with the problems fixed?


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