Just been going trough a lot of reconfiguration lately and today finished configuring a new server. While testing the mail function we saw in the mail logs the following lines: javax.mail.MessagingException – 501 Syntactically invalid HELO argument(s) First we thought, it is the application server or sendmail/exim not being properly configured. But as we soon [...]
We just moved some of our subversion repositories to a new server and with it changed the URL’s. Now, in order to change any existing checkout version to grab updates from the new subversion server we issued the simple “switch” command from subversion as in: svn sw svn://svn.domain.com/trunk . The problem with this was that [...]
CentOS, being a “legal copy” of RedHat, as good as it is, comes with some really outdated libraries. This has caused many, including myself, to find way how to bring latest code releases into CentOS. Be it by alternatives repros or compiling the packages. Now, I don’t know how I could overlook it, but I [...]
Mind you, I’m no PHP guru and I only have PHP installed on our server because of our WordPress blogs. that said, I was facing an ugly PHP error today and somehow we could not load the WordPress admin pages anymore of it. The error was: PHP Warning: Module ‘fileinfo’ already loaded in Unknown on [...]
Seth Godin had a great idea by gathering the thoughts of over 70 people, each giving you ideas what to think about as we go into a new year. He publishes the book now for free. Here is one of my favorite ones from Dave Balter: A long time ago, starting a company that made [...]
Running an Oracle database is great, because it is stable and just runs, but sometimes you are hit with unexpected errors when you restart your machine. Thought, I know Oracle quite well, I’m always surprised at some things. Here are two errors (and solution) I was just confronted with: ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not [...]
I just got home from a very impressive Massive Attack concert. I have to say that this show totally blew me away. The sound quality, the light show, the paragraphs on the LED wall, the band and all was an extremely uplifting experience. They played, among the older classic song, a couple of new ones [...]
I had to spent way too much time the last time to set up ImageMagick and Ghostscript together that I simply jump right in so you don’t have to waste time on this, like I did. Creating thumbnails and images from a PDF is one of the most used features within Razuna. But the other [...]
I have to admit, I love databases. To hold data in a central place and be able to hook up any application from wherever you are to it, is just convenient to say the least. But there are moments I wish that vendors would “follow” a standard. I guess, when it came down to paging, [...]
My two other posts on FFmpeg entitled “Installing ffmpeg on CentOS 5” and “SELinux with ffmpeg” already explained in deep how to get FFmpeg up and running. Unfortunately, today one of our servers just reported a plain: ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libfaad.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory when [...]