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[6 May 2010 | No Comment | ]

I searched over internet, on several tens of posts, to find how to delete a crashed Innodb table. Short story: I tried to import a big table but it crashed in the middle of the process (power failure). The table was not very important so I didn’t care about the table, I just want to delete it and start from the scratch, but surprise! The table cannot be deleted! I use the latest MySQL Innodb plugin from Debian backports repository (is coming with Debian 5.1.xx) with file per table …

Apache, Debian, Featured, Headline, How-to, Linux, Security, Shell »

[4 May 2010 | No Comment | ]

mod_qos is becoming a very popular module for Apache, from the discover of Slowloris DDoS Attack. It seems, mod_qos is the best solution for Slowloris attack on Apache 2, but you can also check mod_evasive, mod_security or http accelerator “Varnish”. In this post I will try to present a step by step tutorial how to install mod_qos and configure to prevent Slowloris DDoS attack.

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Debian, Featured, Linux, Newbie, Shell »

[16 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]

After an Amavis upgraded my e-mail system started to have a strange behavior. A lot of emails sent internally from one user to another stopped with the following message:

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Clustering, Featured, Glassfish, Headline, Java, Shell »

[3 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]

I have several clusters with Glassfish 2.1.1 in a BIG virtual environment and all worked fine … until I add new processors to this clusters. After upgrade, I started to have problems with HttpSession replication. Starting debugging JXTA, Shoal and the Web Container didn’t help at all. Until I found this page Memory Replication & Multi-threaded Concurrent Access to HttpSessions. My applications was doing multi-thread concurrent access some times (Ajax) and this was the root cause of all lost sessions. I modified sun-web.xml from my application, accordingly with the …

Clustering, Featured, Glassfish, Headline, How-to, Java »

[29 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]

For some reasons the asupgrade tool from Sun Glassfish doesn’t work if you want to upgrade your Glassfish from 2.1 to 2.1.1. The upgrade method what I will present you in the next post, probably, is not recommended by SUN, but it will work in most cases (clustered or not). Just follow this steps:

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