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OK, an exaggeration, but this reference to syslog-ng at sial.org, as well as the Safari Bookshelf has proved invaluable of late. Also testing using the tail -f [logfile] command line ensures that whether it’s an email app or Apache you’re testing you can watch as it happens.
Fri, January 19 2007 » Linux » No Comments
Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2004 SP1 is now downloadable for free. (via Guardian Technology) It’s apparently useful for testing new apps or operating systems without really installing it onto a machine. So with that in mind, what about installing Linux on a PC running Windows? The article How To – Configure Ubuntu for Microsoft Virtual PC [...]
Mon, July 17 2006 » Linux » 2 Comments
In the quest to sort out the email issue I have been shifting services around and setting email accounts to forward to working pop accounts. A certain amount of frustration still exists with using imap based accounts with squirrelmail, ie authentication, despite having allowed for plain text passwords, etc. The most comprehensive tutorial though has [...]
Fri, May 5 2006 » Linux » No Comments
A useful command for looking at the end of a logfile, for example a maillog to ensure correct sending of a message. tail -f (logfile), where -f will update as the logfile is written to. Found at Linux Forum
Wed, November 16 2005 » Linux » No Comments
When logging in to RedHat from a PC via Samba users sometimes showed as Nobody in the logins and file permissions were a little screwy. ie Somebody creates a file which cannot be edited by another user who would get an error on their PC along the lines of “Disk full”. When setting up Samba [...]
Mon, September 5 2005 » Linux » No Comments
Have made a couple of small breakthroughs with both Samba and Squid tonight. Am sharing files on Linux server from Windows XP machine. First with Squid, getting it started was sorted out by changing the DNS host in Network to be the IP address of the server. This meant the service could be started. Am [...]
Fri, June 11 2004 » Linux » 2 Comments
I keep getting this RNDC error on start and shutdown. It’s not sorted yet, but there’s a clue I found on on a mailing list at http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2003/12/msg00042.html which reads: On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Ben Donohue wrote: > Hi David, > I had this problem recently and it turned out to be that ipv4 forwarding [...]
Fri, May 28 2004 » Linux » No Comments
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