I spend 6 hours yesterday, and about 3 hours today trying to get this bastard installed. Can I just say how much I hate Sqlite3 and its Python plumbing.
When you’re installing Python make sure you enable threads support at the start. Then install databases/py-sqlite3 for the sqlite default modules. Only then install trac.
I played around the other night with building a VMware style virtual machine to fit on a USB flash drive with the free player. Take your whole install with you where ever you go. I haven’t had enough time to really get into it but I wanted to document what I’ve done so far.
/ 128mb swap 192mb /var 200mb /tmp 200mb
1.7gb VmSize (goal 1.5gb)
BSD Install - X-Kern Developer, setup NIC, pkgadd -r xfce
This gets you xwindows via packages, which is quickest.
“As most open source software developers know, the GPL is actually one of the less “free” software licenses out there…” “From the perspective of the user, the BSD license is actually more “free” than the GPL: you can do whatever you want with the code, including wrap it up and make it proprietary. This is an important difference. With the GPL, the code stays free. With the BSD license, the users stay free.”
[[ http://www.wasabisystems.com/gpl/gplfree.html ]]
Nice to see a clearly outlined piece about licences.
I thought that qmail was a nice and simple mail server that did the job. At least it’s never given me any grief.
A server that I admin has grown it’s data to the size of the partition holding it and needs a reinstall to change the partition size.
On investigation I’ve found a lot of qmail detractors extolling the virtues of postfix. The bookshelf within reach features more than a casual mention of installation procedures etc, so I think I’ll be up for auditioning postfix with dspam to replace qmail.
It always amuses me when I read a tech article that creates it’s own set of example domain names, when RFC 2606 gives us a way out of the confusion.
ipband is a pcap based IP traffic monitor. It tallies per-subnet traffic and bandwidth usage and starts detailed logging if specified threshold for the specific subnet is exceeded. If traffic has been high for a certain period of time, the report for that subnet is generated which can be appended to a file or e-mailed. When bandwidth usage drops below the threshold, detailed logging for the subnet is stopped and memory is freed. ipband man page.
Also useful for simliar stats is tcpstat.
After trying Nagios a year or two ago, I stopped using it because it was too much effort to update all the various config files to make it work.
Zabbix is a simple monitoring package that allows you to interact entirely through a web interface to add hosts (BSD or W32), the items you want to track from that host, triggers to send you email, graphs of combinations of items, screens of selected graphs and more.
Theo goes off in style.
My favourite comment from the end of the article : “Right in the kernel, in the heart of the operating system, I found a developer’s comment that said, ‘Does this belong here?’ “Lok says. “What kind of confidence does that inspire? Right then I knew it was time to switch.”
I’ve setup a spare machine with FreeBSD 5.3 to check out what’s different from the 4.x series I’m familiar with.
As an experiment I put about 20gb of Mp3’s onto it and ran up this nice web app called Jinzora. It’s a Web-based media streamer and local media jukebox, primarily designed to stream MP3s.
I’m still in the process of installing and road testing various X11 apps and stuff. My initial reactions are that Xfce4 is much lighter and faster that KDE3 as a window manager.
X11vnc is just the thing you need to connect into an existing X session and mimic the functionality VNCserver on Win2k.
Sim (simple instant messenger) handles the ICQ/MSN/Jabber connectivity quite well.
