I love the world of open source where would i be without them. Am always thinking on how to cut down the use of paper so i got the idea to go digital and just make paper copies only when they are needed. I tried a couple of apps starting with adobe acrobat Pro, but it didn’t make sense to me why I have to install a 200Mb program just to help me create pdf’s, I tried a couple of freeware pdf printers ad most of them had one limitation or another, or they would be branding your digital documents with there ads. Finally I got a solution from the Linux world I installed cups-pdf by adding the epel repo to my machine and instantly I had a network pdf printer all the machines in the network can print to this pdf printer and it’s free no ads on my digital docs, i can configure it to my needs and it’s barely a few Mb’s. Bottom line there is no equal to it in the windows world at the cost and performance.
A day in the life of an Admin
So today I thought of securing my ssh server and got some tips here. Then somehow I ended up locking myself out of ssh connection for a whole day. After adding this rule -change ip to suit your setup
ListenAddress 192.168.1.10
I got ssh errors connecting to 127.0.0.1 this was solved by adding another rule below it like so
ListenAddress 127.0.0.1
Do the same for hosts.allow
sshd: 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0
sshd:127.0.0.1
This should sought out any connection problems you get. I will look at the logs and see how it looks now I will be able to rest easier knowing then script kiddes won’t get in so easily.
Error connecting to IMAP server: tls://localhost. 0 :
Squirrelmail does not support STARTTLS so just disable, tls in conf.pl or config.php
Apache 2.2 + PHP 5 incompatible
I was using Apache 2.2.2 and PHP 5.1.4 on Windows XP, and the test configuration would never be able to find the php5apache2.dll.
Solution extracting the php5apache2_2.dll from the Stable (5.2.x-dev) Win32 version, and updating the LoadModule php5_module “c:/php/php5apache2_2.dll” for the new dll.
Happy PHP’ing. Remember when you encounter errors google is your friend “just google it” .