John's blog

Talking about technology (mostly)

In vim to undo is ‘u’ and to redo (i.e. undo undo) is ‘Ctrl+R’…

I edited /etc/courier/authdaemonrc and added:

DEBUG_LOGIN=1

Then I created a mail.debug log file:

# touch /var/log/mail.debug
# chown syslog:adm /var/log/mail.debug

Then I created a mail.conf file for rsyslog in /etc/rsyslog.d/mail.conf:

mail.debug /var/log/mail.debug

Then I restarted the rsyslog service:

# service rsyslog restart

Now I have debug logs for mail services!

…oh, no, wait… I only have LOGIN debugging enabled.

Found this, edited /etc/courier/imapd-ssl and added:

IMAPDEBUGFILE=courier.log

Then restarted courier imapd-ssl:

# sudo /etc/init.d/courier-imap-ssl restart

Now there is a courier.log file in: /var/pcmail/jj5@progclub.org

Today I had an interesting problem.

When I ran:

 # php test.php | less

The ‘less’ program entered input mode and the up and down arrow (and j, k keys) weren’t working.

Eventually I figured out a solution:

 # php test.php < /dev/null | less

The PHP CLI seems to be interfering with the terminal and piping in /dev/null to PHP CLI stdin fixes the problem!

Downloaded Roundcube 1.0.2 and installed it at ProgClub…

Today I read What is the Meta Refresh Tag? about the HTML Meta Refresh facility, basically:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=https://www.jj5.net/">

Today I used the MySQL convert_tz function.

Before I could use named timezones with convert_tz I had to load the timezones.

Turns out MySQL doesn’t load timezone info by default! As you can read about here.

To load MySQL timezone info:

mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | mysql -u root -p mysql

Disabled Apache2 with:

update-rc.d -f apache2 remove