Jing Xue’s Weblog
I was planning on giving it a week before upgrading my desktop to the new Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, but couldn’t find better things to do on the mild sunny classic Virginian Saturday afternoon than hunching over a computer in the darkest corner of a basement… more…
Upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04 last week. The Upgrade went quite smooth, especially considering I have been running a mixed kde 4/kde 3 setup, with the kde 4 pulled directly from the kde.org repo.
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About this time last year, I decided to switch to Linux. I lived happily ever after in (K)Ubuntu, with my original Windows still kept around (one word: games). So after upgrading my workhorse desktop at home a couple of weeks back, I had the opportunity to reinstall both OS’s in a dual-boot setup. The experience from the two setup processes was unbelievably radically different. more…
Tried to install Horde Groupware WebMail Edition in my new server. Ran ./scripts/setup.php. Test.php showed everything fine. But when i try to hit the horde entry page for the first time, the browser gets into an infinite loop. The server log keeps showing
“GET /horde/index.php/login.php HTTP/1.1″ 302 26
Here’s a workaround.
When I generated a private key file for a new server I’m setting up, I put in a pass phrase. The PEM file for the private key is then encrypted with that pass phrase. Usually that’s a good thing, but a problem came when I needed to make postfix use that and the certificate issued based-on it. Postfix can only access a passwordless private key file. So to produce one, here’s what I did:
cat my.crt my.key >my.pem
openssl pkcs12 -export -in my.pem -nodes -out my.pfx
openssl pkcs12 -in my.pfx -out my-nodes.key -nodes -nocerts
mkswap -L label /dev/device
When I was installing my Ubuntu, there was this part where an experienced admin would spend some time devising a plan for which part of file system should be mounted from which partition. I decided to skip it and kept everything except /home on one single partition – just to keep it simple. Well, at an unfortunate moment during the past weekend, it suddenly hit me that I should stop being such a noob, and “make things proper”. more…
I couldn’t wait until the Feisty release, and upgraded to the beta a couple of weeks before the release date. Everything else went through quite well, except for the new Network Manager. more…
You'd (I did) think now that we have all figured out how to build 1.4.2 in Edgy, building 1.4.3 should be just some rather boringly repeated procedure. Nope.
For the APR and APR-UTIL packages required by subversion, there are libapr0, libapr1.0, and libapr1 and their corresponding libaprutil* in Synaptic. Despite that the libapr0 description says that it is "currently used by Apache2, Subversion...", or that 1.4.2 was happily built with libapr1.0, you want to get libapr1/libapr1-dev/libaprutil1/libaprutil1-dev, and use this configure line: (I don't care much about accessing through webdav)
The standard Ubuntu repository has only 1.3.2. Higepon's tips worked very well. In addition to the packages listed, I had to also install 'expat-dev'.
