Our fully-featured, content-managed Web Design package valued at $2500, you get it $1250. Integration of your existing site into WordPress, valued at $1000, you get it for $500. Taking care of your existing website for an hour a month, valued at $100 per month now only costs you $50 per month for an entire year! You want us to remotely manage your hosted Linux server for five hours a month, what usually costs you $300 is now only $150 per month for an entire year!

Browse our Web & Design Services and our Remote Administration Services, choose a package you like and enter BFSVC2010 when you check out, and your 50% discount will be automatically applied! This offer is only good for signups until 11:59PM US/Eastern on December 15th, 2010!

Our fully-featured, content-managed Web Design package valued at $2500, you get it $1250. Integration of your existing site into WordPress, valued at $1000, you get it for $500. Taking care of your existing website for an hour a month, valued at $100 per month now only costs you $50 per month for an entire year! You want us to remotely manage your hosted Linux server for five hours a month, what usually costs you $300 is now only $150 per month for an entire year!

Browse our Web & Design Services and our Remote Administration Services, choose a package you like and enter BFSVC2010 when you check out, and your discount will be automatically applied! This offer is only good for signups on Friday, 26-November-2010, from Midnight until 11:59PM!

     Over the last few years, many companies have come and gone, thanks in no small part to the economic instability which has left many people uncertain about the future.  Many companies have become transient, moving to different areas in order to reduce labor costs or take advantage of different niche markets.

     It’s that very thought makes us reflect that we are proud to be an East Tennessee company.  
     But we’re also fortunate that the majority of our services, from Administration Services to Telephone Systems to Web Design and Hosting, can be provided remotely to nearly anywhere in the world.  As a testament, some two-thirds of our business comes from the Western US and Europe.
     But East Tennessee is where most of us grew up.  It’s where we know people, and know them well.  It’s where we’ve made clients who’ve lasted for years and years.  We’re not going anywhere, and we’re still dedicated to providing the best possible service you can get.

     To our clients, old and new, we thank you for helping us go ten years strong, and look forward to a prosperous eleventh year.

     Happy New Year, 2010.

Still, CatalystX continues to beat our competitor’s prices, offering them at only $10 per year.  All .net and .us prices have remained the same at only $8.75 per year.  As an added benefit to our customers both old and new, we now provide .info and .biz domain names as part of our repertoire.

     Many people have complained about not being able to get the Xbox 360 with Xbox Live to recognize the Open NAT on the latest Linksys firmware. Unfortunately, many “gurus” have asked that people downgrade their firmware on Linksys WRT-based routers, a move which is both a bad idea for security purposes, and leaves other non-WRT Linksys routers without a solution.

     The easy way to get Open NAT on the Linksys is a bit obscure, and perhaps mislabeled in the Linksys interface. Open up the Browser interface to your Linksys (http://192.168.1.1/ if you left it as default), and go to your Security section. On the Filter tab, check the box beside “Filter NAT Redirect” and “Save” at the bottom.

     Now, on your Xbox 360, configured with Automatic settings (and not set in a DMZ like many “experts” have recommended), you should now have Open NAT.

Note: On some Linksys routers, the location of these options may change, but a dilligent search through the Web interface should reveal the options.  This solution also works for routers loaded with the much-improved DD-WRT firmware.

downloading Net_URL-1.0.15.tgz …
Starting to download Net_URL-1.0.15.tgz (6,303 bytes)
…..done: 6,303 bytes
Could not get contents of package “/root/tmp/pear/cache/Net_URL-1.0.15.tgz”. Invalid tgz file.
Download of “pear/Net_URL” succeeded, but it is not a valid package archive
Error: cannot download “pear/Net_URL”
Download failed
install failed

     The problem is caused by differences in the way PHP 5.2.x parses code, and can be fixed by manually patching the listContent function in PEAR’s Archive_Tar package.  Open /usr/local/lib/php/Archive/Tar.php and look at the offending Line 220:

//            if (!$this->_extractList('', $v_list_detail, "list", '', '')) {
            $x = $this->_extractList('', $v_list_detail, "list", '', '');
            if (!$x) {

     We commented it out, and added two more lines.  Now, from both the command-line & WHM interface, everything magically works.

Note: In some instances (depending on your OS, Cpanel version & build options — multiple servers show no uniformity), you’ll have to make the same change to /usr/lib/php/Archive/Tar.php.

Deprecated pam_stack module called from service
     [servicename]
pam_env([servicename]:setcred):
     Unable to open env file: /etc/environment

The fix has been elusive, as Ensim continues to re-write the pam.d files, but running this script will take care of both issues posthaste.

Save this as /usr/local/sbin/fix_pam:

#!/bin/sh

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# fix_pam ver 1.0a
#
# (c) Copyright 2007 Mark Steel / Catalyst IT. All rights reserved.
#
# This script may only be distributed unmodified.
#
# This script is intended to be used to fix the "depracated pam stack module"
# errors on servers and virtual hosts.
#
# NOTE: THIS SCRIPT IS NOT GPL
#
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

perl -i -p -e 's/required(.*)pam_stack.so service=system-auth/include\tsystem-auth/' /etc/pam.d/*
perl -i -p -e 's/pam_pwdb/pam_unix/' /etc/pam.d/*
perl -i -p -e 's/pam_env.so$/pam_env.so readenv=0/' /etc/pam.d/system-auth

perl -i -p -e 's/pam_env.so$/pam_env.so readenv=0/' /home/virtual/FILESYSTEMTEMPLATE/siteinfo/etc/pam.d/system-auth
VIRTUAL=`find /home/virtual/FILESYSTEMTEMPLATE -name pam.d`
for i in $VIRTUAL; do
perl -i -p -e 's/required(.*)pam_stack.so service=system-auth/include\tsystem-auth/' $i/*
perl -i -p -e 's/pam_pwdb/pam_unix/' $i/*
done

DOMAINS=`sitelookup -a site_root`
for i in $DOMAINS; do
perl -i -p -e 's/required(.*)pam_stack.so service=system-auth/include\tsystem-auth/' $i/etc/pam.d/*
perl -i -p -e 's/pam_pwdb/pam_unix/' $i/etc/pam.d/*
perl -i -p -e 's/pam_env.so$/pam_env.so readenv=0/' $i/etc/pam.d/system-auth
done

service saslauthd restart

Run once, and you’re golden.

     It’s time to redesign and revamp our website!

     In coming days, you’ll find more information about our final re-branding under CatalystX and the more robust array of services we provide.

     Stayed tuned!

     Stayed tuned for more information and deals from CatalystX!