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The manual pages on man.netbsd.org are rendered by man-cgi, a ~1400-line POSIX shell script forked per request by fcgiwrap behind an nginx FastCGI cache and Fastly. This weekend I overhauled how the service caches. (more…)

Debian 7.0 “wheezy” was officially released about a week ago. I’ve been running it on a couple of systems for a few months already because of the more recent software versions available on it. Today I upgraded one of the shell servers, a couple of days ahead of the originally posted schedule due to security updates to MySQL (DSA-2667). As usual for Debian, the upgrade process is well documented¹ and robust. However, here are some notes for upgrading the next instance. (more…)