Archive for the 'Linux' Category
How to Not Get a “Warm Fuzzy”
This excellent article from The Register is an excellent reason not to use Winblows. Even though its a few years old, it is (unfortunately for MS users) still relevant. And not much has changed in three years on the MS front…
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After digging a bit, I found this. I was looking to download a Firefox 1.5 rpm for Fedora that was not RC3, but 1.5 “final”. All that I was able to find was RC3 rpms. Seems to me that this type of info should be put on the main Firefox Release Notes page. So I guess it looks as if I install an RC3 rpm, I’m good.
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Got the OSS munchies? Hit your local Freedom Toaster (only in South Africa though)!
Because folks in South Africa have limited or nonexistent Interweb access, these guys came up with a vending machine solution to make Open Source Software more accesible. The Freedom Toaster will burn a CD or DVD (that you provide) containing your favorite Linux distro (and some other OSS), hot and fresh, and at no cost to you. What a cool idea!
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Whelp, my stuff is back online again. I decided to upgrade from Redhat 9 to Fedora Core 4. Instead of migrating everything, I decided to start from scratch. After researching, I figured I would be better off in the long run re-installing. I had a lot of fluff on this box that I needed to do away with, plus I was afraid it would take me longer to fix everything after upgrading as opposed to rebuilding. Now, I’m running the latest versions of Wordpress, Postfix, etc. (yippee!!!). The process was really not as bad as I was expecting, mainly because I had been using rsnapshot to do my backups to an external usb drive. “Piece-o-cake” to get any old config info from my backup. I highly recommend rsnapshot.
The main problem that I had getting everything going again was SELinux. I kept getting weird “permission denied” errors with Postfix as well as SquirrelMail. It was easy to fix once I figured out the culprit. It seems that if there are problems like this caused by SELinux, they are not logged (at least not by default in FC4) in any of the logs in /var/log. I ended up discovering the problem only by strace‘ing Postfix.