BeezNest fixes new Chamilo security flaws in 48h
Secunia gave the Chamilo Security team full details of three security flaws detected in version 1.9.4 on Monday the 4th of March 2013. These flaws were detected by Fernando Muñoz, a regular contact for Chamilo in terms of security.
More free software and open source good news from Europe
On the line of my latest post about Linagora, a European data researcher recently published the results of a study concluding in that the European Community is saving 450 billion euros per year thanks to Open Source software.
In the same orientation, the APRIL (French Association for digital freedom) published a study reporting the substantial savings of the French Government thanks to Open
Munin 2.0 on Debian
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Munin 2.0 has been released and packaged for Debian, and even backported to Squeeze (from backports.debian.org). Even though there are still some quirks in this version (or just the Debian packaging), it is far better (more scalable, more powerful and prettier) than version 1.4.
Nginx Anti-DOS filter for Fail2Ban
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We are currently trying out this Fail2Ban rule on one of our server, to block simple (but very upsetting) DOS attacks on Nginx automatically (after 30 seconds).
New filter in /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/nginx-dos.conf:
Chamilo certification program
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This is still under construction, but some of the certification exams are already ready to be taken.
Building a Debian Lenny package for Sphinxsearch
See the second part of http://sphinxsearch.com/wiki/doku.php?id=sphinx_on_debian_gnu_linux for the original post:
$ cd $ mkdir src $ cd src $ sudo grep deb-src /etc/apt/sources.list > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wheezy.list $ sudo vim wheezy.list (change squeeze to wheezy and remove security line) $ sudo apt-get update $ mkdir sphinxsearch $ cd sphinxsearch $ apt-get source sphinxsearch $ apt-get build-dep sphinxsearch $ cd sphinxsearch-2.0.3/ $ debuild $ cd .. $ dpkg -i sphinxsearch_2.0.3-1_amd64.debYou can then start it with
$ sudo vim /etc/default/sphinxsearch $ STAR
Creating a software RAID array on an already installed Ubuntu 11.04
Let's say you got confused by a misleading fake-RAID feature on an HP Blade server and you decided to ignore that the Ubuntu installer was telling you it found 2 disks while it was supposed (if it was actual hardware RAID) to be detecting only one. And let's say you are lucky to have 3 disks, and you only one to use two as the RAID array (and they do not contain your operating system, i.e. the / partition). You might wonder: "And now what? S**** you, HP!" (that last bit is if you left panic get you, of course).
HOWTO Build your own binaries of PHP Xapian bindings for Debian
Due to a licensing issue, the PHP bindings for Xapian were removed from Debian Squeeze.
Differences between Moodle and Chamilo
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In our exchanges with users and the Chamilo association that manages the Chamilo user forum, a recurring question often arises:
Hello Chamilo, a quick question:
I was recently asked to highlight the differences between Moodle and Chamilo. From what I’ve observed, both LMS platforms seem to offer similar features through comparable modules.
What sets Chamilo apart from Moodle?