TO BE DONE FROM THE SERVER THE IP WAS MOVED TO:

An article here suggests the following:

arping -S <our_IP> -B

That didn't work for me... I think our arping is too old? This worked though:

arping -c 2 -s <our_IP> -U <broadcast_IP>
eg: arping -c 2 -s 204.13.11.78 -U 204.13.11.255

When transitioning an IP from one host to another, it took about 60 seconds to transition without arping, and just a few seconds with using arping. There may be additional benefits at the router level, where the arp timeouts are much longer.

Our current broadcast IPs:

69.59.195.255
65.212.181.255 (note: 181, not 180!)
204.13.10.255
204.13.11.255
etc... you get the idea...

On the command line, as root, cd to /home1/ftp/pub/. If you do a ls there you will see directories named slack?? where ?? is our internal version indicator. You can do a cat /etc/slackware-version to figure out what version of slackware you are running. Then if you cd into the corresponding slack??/kattare directory and do a ls you will see a listing of all of the available custom Kattare packages. From there you can either upgrade all of the packages using the ./upgrade-packages script or you can upgrade individual packages by doing an upgradepkg --install-new <package-name>.tgz.

Kattare routinely updates the packages available in that directory as new software is released and bugfixes come out. If you would like to be notified whenever a new package is available, send an email to support@kattare.com and we'll add your address to our mail list. Note that this can be fairly frequent.

In our default setup, you can use the following in the /etc/httpd.conf configuration file. If you've customized your apache install at all, you should be aware of the location of your httpd.conf. (Note that you can also put these in .htaccess files on a per-directory basis.) The format is "ErrorDocument <error-code> <URL>". Most, but not all of these require a relative URL.

    ErrorDocument 400 /errors/badreq.html
    ErrorDocument 401 /errors/noauth.html
    ErrorDocument 403 /errors/forbid.html
    ErrorDocument 404 /errors/missing.html
    ErrorDocument 500 /errors/conferr.html

You can also redirect people off of your site using an external URL.

    ErrorDocument 403 http://www.kattare.com/

Do not forget to restart apache after changing the config with an 'apachectl restart'.