[Bindable] system, networking, developpment

As blogged here, it's advised to put a GRE_HOME="" as an env variable for eclipse.

Recently, I had to upgrade a redmine setup. Amongst other requirements evolutions, which were handled fine by 'aptitude' and 'gem install', I found out I had to manually install a 'mysql' gem, presumably because it was not included any more with one of the dependency shipped with redmine build.

For what is worth, this is rails-related : the mysql connector is no more included, you have to install it separately. The redmine documentation went pretty clear to that point, telling me to run a classic "gem install mysql".

That's a quick tip about a mistake that kept me struggling with an apache configuration for hours. I was trying to enable a cgi-version of php5 on an old, mod-php4 enabled, apache server.

Like many of sysadmin around this world, we've got some old boxes lying around, running old software on old OSes. Well, in this case this is that old : a Pentium II machine running ERP software on Windows 2000. The box isn't directly used. The management staff access it through VNC from their own machine. The reason of that setup is a bit odd (users on Mac, software available only under windows...) but that's another story. The fact is this is important software that management staff have to access for important stuff so data conservation itself is pretty much critical. Back to that old box. More and more noise (failing fans, failing hard drive, ...). Sounds like we are gonna be loosing this machine in no time. Next to it, a shining new Linux server box running on shiny new Athlon processor with virtualization instructions enabled is lying with its brand new raid-enabled hard-drives. You guess what we decided...

So you got your workstation upgraded to Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) and now eclipse is buggy ? Maybe here's the solution.

At work, we use puppet to help managing the config ours servers. I recently noticed on each server that the system log was constantly reporting an error in the puppet routine. This error didn't prevent anything to work, but it bothered me. I find out why on someone else site[1].

As you may know, the Sieve implementation (sieve) in the dovecot IMAP server has been rewritten from scratch as of the 1.2 release. The previous useable implementation was simply the one you can find in the Cyrus IMAP server (cmusieve).

The managesieve protocol is used to manage your sieve script without having to access it directly via FTP or SSH.

Several month ago I decided to convert all the development project I manage to Maven. At least those that require a compilation phase. Flex projects are part of them. The problem is that for such projects, the build/compilation result in a myriad of files (.swf, .js, .html, assets) in the target folder. The Flex compilation suite (flex-mojos) only handle the .swf file. As a result, when releasing the project for a specific version, only this file is uploaded to the Maven repository.

Today I was asked on how could it be possible to access XML nodes of a document that make use of XML namespaces. The solution is straightforward... as soon as you find it !