Category Archives: Unix

I thought it would be a good idea to install ClamAV and Spamassasin into my mail retrieval process no that I have cron pulling my emails from all my ISP mail accounts to my dev server once a day. Fortunately … Continue reading →

Another fun day not in the office. A week on leave to relax on my birthday and I’ve been working harder than ever, at least it’s on my own stuff. My main backup server was reporting hard drive errors on … Continue reading →

Curse virtualbox. The removal of the ability to compact images cripled me for almost a week. Oh yeah, I started using it because responses from the VM in heavy GUI apps was faster in VirtualBox than QEMU. I made a … Continue reading →

Well I finally got my desktop and development server upgraded to FC12; and what a nightmare that was. For anyone doing a fresh Fedora install DO NOT accept the default filesystem layout !. Updating the FC11 desktop server that I … Continue reading →

Over the years I have written many script libraries to handle arithmetic functions, some of them quite messy involving determing where the decimal point is in the string, removing it, adjusting other strings, doing the calculations using the bash inbuilt … Continue reading →

Whooppeee. Got one going. There was a virtual appliance for VMWare, but I don’t use VMWare so rolled my own in VirtualBox. Did a minimal install of FC11, which took no time at all as I couldn’t find the blasted … Continue reading →

Having finally got my desktops and web server reasonably stable under FC11, I though it was probably time to backup my main server. So I copied across mkCDrec from my Fc10 server to my FC11 desktop, and fired it off. … Continue reading →

Well I’ve finally moved my web server off FC8 and onto FC11. You will probably find a few issues remaining, but I think I have cleaned 99% of them up. I had a few major issues with the upgrade. The … Continue reading →

I wanted to play with TrueCrypt on FC10. No RPM for fedore, so source is needed. I used version 6.2 Lots of errors trying to compile with “make WXSTATIC=1”, tried that as I know I didn’t have wxWidgets installed. Next … Continue reading →

Sidetracked again. Was helping getting some NTP stuff going at my real job today, when I thought maybe I should get my own home servers setup for ntp as well. So I did. The Linux side was easy A quick … Continue reading →