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Category Archives: *nix
My Move to Improving Enterprises, Part 1
This blog article has turned into a ridiculously long posting that I’m splitting into 2, possibly 3 parts. The series pretty much recaps what I did at the College of Architecture and what I’m doing at Improving Enterprises. Enjoy! For … Continue reading
Posted in *nix, Personal, Software Development, Systems Administration
Tagged .net, automation, continuous integration, gentoo, linux, PHP, phpunit, postgresql, Systems Administration, wcf, wpf, zend framework
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pg_service.conf Syntax
I am setting up monitoring for my PostgreSQL database server, and ran across a cool way to get around specifying the username/password via the command-line every time the checks are run: pg_service.conf. Unfortunately, there is very little documentation on the … Continue reading
JIRA Failed to Find DataSource
If you were a luck systems administrator who followed the instructions for a Tomcat container installation using the EAR-WAR install when setting up Atlassian JIRA, then you may have been privileged to see the following error message in your log … Continue reading
Strange LDAP & Sudo Problem
After several updates of various systems software packages on my Gentoo Linux servers, I began to notice a problem where I was being denied sudo access. The solution was amazingly simple, once I actually Googled to figure out what was … Continue reading
Zend Studio 7 Linux Problem
I seem to be surrounded by problems these days. Zend has announced that Zend Studio 7 is now in Beta, so I figured I’d go give it a try since I was having so many problems with Eclipse being sluggish … Continue reading
Virtual Mail – Individual Mailbox Filtering:q
So, one of the things I’ve been working on is getting a nice Virtual Mail system setup for Cerberus’ Enterprise Hosting Solution. One of the things I’ve come to be really annoyed with is the lack of being able to … Continue reading
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Tagged gentoo, linux, mail, maildrop, postfix, Systems Administration
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Gentoo Font Glory
I found an article today that any Gentoo (and likely any Linux user) should look at if they want fonts to look better than either Windows or Mac OS X. Check it out.
Gentoo and Amarok 1.4.10-r1
I had been in the market for a new music player, and Songbird wasn’t really cutting it for me. They didn’t have keyboard support built-in yet, and the application was bloated as hell (it took several hundred megs of memory … Continue reading
Solaris 10 – Nagios and GD Compile Issues
If you ever compile Nagios successfully on Solaris 10 (trust me, it’s a beast to get working properly), beware if you get the following errors: [Tue Jul 01 18:15:37 2008] [error] [client 192.168.0.100] ld.so.1: histogram.cgi: fatal : libgd.so.2: open failed: … Continue reading
Solaris 10 and NFS
I’ve been getting our Solaris environment setup in the College of Architecture, and one of the things I quickly realized with zones is that I’m going to need to setup LDAP to have any sort of efficient way of managing … Continue reading