Author Archives: alain

If you get errors like: BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 6. And then with apt-get you are also getting perl errors, check the perl paths. Grab the list of not found dirs: ls -la /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.20.2 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20 /usr/share/perl5 … Continue reading →

You want to backup some files recursively except one directory within: tar cvfz live_20151207.tgz –exclude=’public_html/sites/all/files’ public_html it is important that the exclude is like that: –exclude=’public_html/sites/all/files’ This would FAIL: –exclude=’./public_html/sites/all/files’ Not sure but to remember I think of it as … Continue reading →

There is a problem with SSH/SFTP login for users in Wheezy update of DTC installation. This is because the 64 libraries have changed location: /lib64 -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu Replace all references to the wrong dir from: /usr/share/dtc/admin/install/functions You should update the … Continue reading →

If you are root user, make sure you do: npm install –unsafe-perm

Lets say you got a site with big slider containing dynamically generated buttons. These buttons work just fine everywhere except on our new friends iphone 5 and 6… even on the iphone 4 it works fine. You are most probably … Continue reading →

find . -newermt “yyyy-mm-dd”

Classic. Lets say you like to delete all the “.DS_Store” files recursively….: find . -name ‘.DS_Store’ -exec rm -rf {} \;

https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes!session.inc/7 yeah, do not forget to define the base url, something like: $base_url = ‘http://’.$_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]; I’d start php script like: <?php define(‘DRUPAL_ROOT’, ‘../’); $base_url = ‘http://’.$_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]; require_once DRUPAL_ROOT . ‘/includes/bootstrap.inc’; drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_SESSION); drupal_add_http_header(‘Content-Type’, ‘text/html; charset=UTF-8’); drupal_session_initialize(); drupal_session_regenerate(); //print_r($_SESSION);

Should work with most decent Linux distro (I love that expression, I know exactly what I mean here). Why, oh why, enabling a networking connection channel by default… Definitely some decisions are not in the hands of the right people… … Continue reading →

Edit the file /etc/roundcube/main.inc.php change FALSE -> TRUE $rcmail_config[‘create_default_folders’] = TRUE;