I've installed up-imapproxy to test it with the SquirrelMail test instance.

Standard compile on FreeBSD 4.5. I put the daemon in /usr/local/libexec, the config file in /usr/local/etc and the stats program (pimpstat) in /usr/local/sbin. I wrote a basic startup script for /usr/local/etc/rc.d. The testing configuration listens on port 1143 and connects to mailer.earlham.edu on port 143. SquirrelMail test is now pointing to this instead of the regular IMAP server.

The proxy seems to work, including password changes. I can't tell, at the moment, whether it's faster or not. I suspect the delays I'm seeing are the PHP rendering and the netlag between campus and home.

I installed PHP Accelerator on KE in the hopes of keeping SquirrelMail from stomping on the CPU too much. So far it seems to be working well.

Installing the accelerator involves downloading the source file (I used php_accelerator-1.3.3r2_php-4.3.0_freebsd_i386-4.5), installing the shared library, editing the php.ini file, and restarting Apache.

I saved the shared library as /usr/local/lib/php_accelerator_1.3.3r2.so.

I added the following lines to php.ini:

• zend_extension = /usr/local/lib/php_accelerator_1.3.3r2.so
• phpa.cache_dir = /tmp/phpa

I created the directory /tmp/phpa to store the cache files. I changed the owner to www and made it mode 0700.

SquirrelMail seems to be working well, and the load average seems to be hovering in the 1-3 range at the moment.

Drive [1,3] on the A1000 array failed on 9/13/2003 and the host spare [1,0] kicked in. The replacement drive (Seagate) arrived on Friday and I installed it first thing this morning. The array rebuilt itself and is currently back to normal operation.

Drive replacement on these things is simple: snap out the old, snap in the new. It doesn't have to be powered down or brought into any kind of standby mode.

Testing indicates that future work for these arrays may be battery replacement.

I updated ProFTPd last night to 1.2.8. Most operations are working well, however the SSL/TLS code has changed and the configuration directives probably need tweaking to make it work.

This was partly in response to the ISS security alert for ProFTPd. It also gets a more up to date daemon with other bugfixes and enhancements.

I installed a libxml2 package on PACO and ROJ for development purposes.

Used the GPlxml and GPlxmlx packages, version 2.4.25 for Solaris 8 from Gary Pennington.