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Yeah, so even if you turn off basic authentication and specify a different auth method, Apache (at least some versions of it) still looks around for an auth file and throws a “pcfg_openfile() called with NULL” error when it can’t find one.  To fix, set the user auth file to /dev/null:

AuthBasicAurhorative off
AuthUserFile /dev/null


Or you can just ignore the errror I suppose. It looks more serious than it is.

Mantis is apparently on an Emacs-esque release schedule.  Two years of work gives us 1.2.0.  This release includes a new, and long-needed, plugin repository.

These days I spend most of my time in Trac, though I long for a switch back to Mantis.

Here’s another memory crutch.

# rkhunter --propupd will “update the entire file properties database, or just for the specified entries”. Run after a significant system upgrade or prepare for a few moments of self-inflicted panic a day or two later.

This is excellent. How to fight back against the Nutritional Industrial Complex.

Two-thirds of ad budgets go to heavily processed foods.

Is the ancient Chinese curse upon us?

And then we deregulated.

How have US printing presses not yet caused a rift in the space-time continuum?

I love the internet.

Thank you Lee.