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So I finally got around to installing something so I can host my own calendar and contacts so that data is not shared with the big four corporate companies. As I just need basic calendar and contacts functionality I chose the open source project Radicale. As I have run Fedora to control the house and my private data since 1998… Continue reading Installed Radicale3 for hosting my own calendar and contacts data
Not sure what happened to this or why but its no longer available. I used to have a script that used it to convert binary data to text for attachments on emails. Having searched high and low I came up with a new solution – use openssl. You can do the same that you were doing with mmencode by doing… Continue reading MMEncode is not available on Linux distros any more.
So I find that my MySQL database is running high on CPU all of a sudden. I optimize the tables etc and no difference. I hunt around the internet to find that there seems to be a problem with this years leap second adjustment which sends MySQL into orbit. The solution reset the date date -s “`date`” and it dropped… Continue reading MySQL pegging CPU after the leap second adjustment.
So since upgrading Perl I am presented with qw warnings coming out of the cron job checking that BackupPC is running. Use of qw(…) as parentheses is deprecated at /usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Storage/Text.pm line 301. Use of qw(…) as parentheses is deprecated at /usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm line 1412. The way to get rid of these warnings is to enclose qw in parentheses and Perl processes… Continue reading BackupPC Has qw(…) Warnings Since Upgrading Perl
Ok now next problem that I ran into in trying to get qmail running on the distrubution is that checkpassword-0.90 doesnt want to compile and looking on the web there is 1 arabic website explaining how to get around this which I cant understand but with again more pain I have finally cracked it. In the source directory of checkpassword… Continue reading Checkpassword-0.90 Compilation Error on Fedora Core 3
Ok I run qmail here and funny thing was outlook wasnt logging into it. Thought I had been hacked or something. To see what the problem was I telnetted into my qmail box using telnet mail.farrowcomputing.com 110 port 110 is the port designated to pop3, then put in your username user “username” then password pass “password” and on my system… Continue reading POP3: unable to scan $HOME/Maildir?