After upgrading sarge to etch - spamassassin was installed - but sa-exim wasn't running (the headers in mail showed it to be to do with the setting of SAEximRunCond stating that it should not run…
I finally managed to get consistent colour right from the screen through to the printer. Here's what I needed to do. First step was to calibrate the screen (Macbook Pro in this case). To do this I…
LDAP authentication started giving: This is because apache 2.2 needs to be told what provider. Add: In addition - to be allowed to use require valid-user add: So - in full - the old config: changes to
To add a .mac mail account to a P990i. With the flap open: First - get to the correct configuration: go to Control Panel then Messaging then E-Mail Accounts then the New Button Now - fill out Finally…
The following problems: Upgrade of kernel from 2.6.8-k7 to 2.6.18-k7 broke the network. The e1000 device was all configured up according to ifconfig and route was correct but always no route to host…
I have an OpenBSD 3.6 machine as my home firewall. I also have a mini-itx machine with IDE-CF converter card waiting to replace it. This is the state of play The build machine is running 4.0. chroot…
An extra protection can be added to drupal update function by restricting which machines can access it. Add this to the .htaccess
To avoid having to set up multiple cron lines - here's a script that will read your drupal install(s) and call cron on each one found. Not sure where I saw the code (rss feed) - but the comment was…
I use the java-package make-jpkg to install java JVM's. I have mostly used sun's JVM's up to now. I wanted to easily switch between them (which the alternatives mechanism handles well) but also to…
To upgrade a site from drupal 4.7 to 5.0: I have several sites running drupal 4.7 that will want to be upgraded to 5.0 - here's how I'm thinking of approaching it. Mostly culled from a Lullabot…
I needed to get both my Mac machines (mac mini intel and macbook pro) to be included in the amanda backup I run. I could have tried going via samba - but the following page works exactly as advertised…
I have two servers running debian sarge (stable). Etch is nearly ready to go stable (in hard freeze) so I decided to test the upgrade on the least important box. This box has apache, samba, gnump3d…
I have most of my debian boxes using lvm2. On one (sadly my main server I was getting): but everything seemed to be working. So - I ran vgscan. This stated that there was a problem on /dev/hdd. Well…
The following dialog appeared when I got to work this morning (where I connect via wired ethernet rather than wifi). I feel that someone has not really understood the concept of wifi security:
Just a quick note. If you configure the mac's HTTP proxy under network system settings to point to a squid server on your local network - then whatsmyip.net et al return your internal IP (in my case a…
The USB Synlogy print server works just fine with Windows. The documentation states that it can only print to a Postscript printer from Mac OS X. The HP 1015 LaserJet is sadly not a postscript printer…
Two machines - a MB Pro and a Mac Mini. One printer - an HP 1015 LaserJet. It doesn't seem to be listed in the standard drivers - but with a little help from linuxprinting it will work. Head to http…
For details on how to use /etc/hosts on Mac OS X - see http://kb.doit.wisc.edu/middleware/page.php?id=4506
Drupal 5 is now in beta. Not all the third party modules are converted yet. Track here: http://drupal.org/node/82257
To add a .mac mail account to a P990i. With the flap open: First - get to the correct configuration: go to Control Panel then Messaging then E-Mail Accounts then the New Button Now - fill out Finally…