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  • [Solution] Can’t use /usr/lib/dovecot/imap: No such file or directory

    Getting this? $ sudo service dovecot restart * Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server dovecot Error: mail_executable: Can’t use /usr/lib/dovecot/imap: No such file or directory Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf …fail! install dovecot-imap ;)

  • Update wordpress without needing FTP

    Give your wordpress dir the right permissions: sudo chmod -R 775 wp-dir ; sudo chown -R username:www-data Add this in wp-config.php:ย define(‘FS_METHOD’,’direct’); You can now update via ‘update now’.

  • Test SMTP block (sshguard, fail2ban)

    I used the following script to test brute-force protection: #!/usr/bin/php <?php for( $i=0; $i<99; $i++ ){ echo “Will try [$i] now. \n”; $mbox = imap_open(“{mail.mailserver.com:143/imap/novalidate-cert}INBOX”,”user_test_$i”,”foobar”,0,0); } ?>   Edit: You will need php-cli and php-imap

  • Deprecated Linux networking commands and their replacements

    Found this gem on an other blog: Deprecated Linux networking commands and their replacementsย  I mostly use $ifconfig. Let’s try `$ ip a` from now on :).

  • [Solution] GConf Error – GetDefaultDatabase – org.gnome.GConf.Server

    Recently I got the error: GConf Error: Configuration server couldn’t be contacted: D-BUS error: Method ” GetDefaultDatabase” with signature “” on interface “org.gnome.GConf.Server” doesn’t exist. I got this while trying to start Evolution (mail software). Solution is simply rebooting. I forgot to reboot after my Fedora 15 to Fedora 16 upgrade

  • [Solution] Jar not working via command line

    Getting this: $ java drs.jar Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: drs/jar Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: drs.jar at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266) Could not find the main class: drs.jar. Program will exit. Solution is: $java -jar drs.jar