Ok, its stuff like this that’s a real knock against linux being ready for the desktop. Since I’ve upgraded gnome recently, automounting of usb devices has stopped working. This is annoying, although livable. Today I found a fix, if you’re running debian with gnome and gnome-volume-manager still doesn’t display usb drives on your desktop when […]
Performancing has released what looks to be a cool Firefox extension that makes it easy to update your blog using the browser and a client-side WYSIWYG editor. If you’ve got a wordpress, movabletype, or blogger blog, it’s worth checking out. Now, I’ve got to implement an xml-rpc service so that I can use this.
Since I configured my mail server, I was getting the following lines in my auth.log. Everything was working, users had to log in to receive or send mail, so the messages were really cluttering the logfile. Nov 28 00:02:39 rm-003-11 lmtpunix[1085]: sql_select option missingNov 28 00:02:39 rm-003-11 lmtpunix[1085]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism availableNov 28 00:05:44
If, like me, you have a Debian box and are itching to try out Hula, last week Hula packages made it into the Unstable branch.
When setting up a Cyrus IMAP server and you want to use a MySql database to hold user names and passwords, you must use the mysql module for PAM to authenticate because it can handle passwords that are stored using crypt ( the ENCRYPT function in mysql ). While there is also the aux_prop plugin
I’ve been hating computers today as I woke up to find a corrupted partition table on my linux hard drive. I couldn’t recover it so had to balst away the partition table and all data on the drive. Luckily, all my data is redudantly backed up on other drives and PCs so I didn’t lose
There are a bunch of reasons why you might decide that running your own mail server is something you want to do. You have a lot of free time and enjoy spending a lot of time at the command line reading howto guides and installation manuals. Hopefully, you know you are running a mail server
Earlier this year, I bought the inexpensive Samsung ML-1750 black and white laser printer to replace the unused and old color inkjet I had. The printer worked nicely but it didn’t get much use since I had it connected to a Windows PC. Instead of sharing it through Samba and requiring a whole PC to
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Both on my Debian PC’s at home and work, I’ve been annoyed that my Firefox and Thunderbird installations didn’t launch each other when I clicked on a link or email address. For example, at work, Evolution would come up if I clicked on a mailto link on a web page. Inside each program’s preferences there
If you’re not careful with how you handle log files on your server, you may be surprised one day if it crashes because the file grows to the file size limit on your operating system. To prevent that, you’ll want to implement some sort of log rotation system. On most linux distributions, this is most