Troubleshooting Munin

Having given up on installing and using Munin once already I thought I would jot a few notes to help in future troubleshooting.Test the connection by telnet from the munin-server to the munin-nodetelnet mynode 4949list fetch vmstat Firewall is the... » More

Plesk ClamAV and SpamAssassin: ART

Configuring Plesk's version of Qmail to use Clam and Spamassassin. I followed the instructions here:http://www.jaguarpc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19328But I also received an error:Cannot find any reference to the Q-S administrator Email address inĀ and... » More

Courier IMAP maximum connections

Just increased the maximum number of IMAP (courier) connections (for thunderbird and Mac users) in /etc/courier-imap/imapdMAXDAEMONS from 40 to 80MAXPERIP from 4 to 40as discussed here.I also set DEBUG_LOGIN=1 from DEBUG_LOGIN=0so I could use Munin to... » More

MySQL 4 to MySQL 5 Character Sets and Collation

Moving from MySQL 4 to MySQL 5 caused a few issues on Joomla websites. The problems stem from MySQL 4 using latin1 swedish as default but some applications like Joomla want utf8 so:1. Re-export the database (it is Ok to do this from the existing MySQL 5... » More

Debugging PHP Errors

To debug PHP without having to amend the php.ini for all websites add the following in a .htaccess file in the directory of the application. Easy to switch on and off:php_value display_errors 1php_value display_startup_errors 1orphp_flag display_errors... » More

Wii WBFS on Ubuntu

I could not find a way to reduce thee size of a WBFS partition (although there is surely someone working on this) so...To delete, resize partitions use Gparted as normal and create some empty space. To create (initialise) new WBFS partitions in... » More

Proftpd mod_tls and Jscape FTP applet

Recent problem with a Proftpd server configuration on Red Hat/Centos. I had configured mod_tls but on this newer version of the module I had to add the following lines to my proftpd.conf file for the JScape FTP applet to work with:Connection Type FTP/SSL... » More