We had a customer email in after updating to Jaunty recently. They said the following Hi guys, I upgraded my VPS a little while back to Ubuntu Jaunty (because I was several versions out of date and the apt repositories had gone away.) I never actually rebooted the machine afterwards though because it wasn’t a […]
There have been some interesting exploits out and about, and often sysadmins have a lot of wordpress installs going on the one machine. This can be problematic when it comes to upgrading multiple instances. So I posted a script up on the Rimuhosting blog that should fix this wget http://b.ri.mu/files/wordpress-upgrade-patched.sh sh wordpress-upgrade-patch.sh Original Article: http://blog.rimuhosting.com/2009/08/20/wordpress-upgrade-script/
Found at : http://www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog:20090718 A new 0-day attack on the Linux kernel has just been released by Brad Spengler called the “Chedder Bay Exploit” which exploits a flaw in the Linux 2.6.30+ kernel. This exploit is interesting, in that the code doesn’t look particularly broken, but when compiled the compiler optimisations causes the compiled code […]