Month: August 2005

Upgrading to WordPress 1.5.2

I am finally getting good at this. This took me ten minutes. My procedure is:

  1. Backup two files, wp-config.php and quicktags.js, and one theme directory.
  2. Delete the old wordpress directory.
  3. Expand the compressed file to create the new directory.
  4. Rename the new quicktags.js and default theme directory.
  5. Copy my wp-config.php, quicktags.js, and theme directory back into their correct places.

Fedora and SBS

Last Friday I got Fedora FC4 to communicate with my SBS network. I have some bugs I am still working on. I had found several recent articles on the subject and it looked fairly easy. Setting up Keberos was fairly easy and I got my ticket. I setup Winbind and SMB but I am not happy with the configuration screen for Winbind since it doesn’t do anything. I had to configure the smb.conf file manually. I have been able to browse the Windows shares from Linux and transfer files okay but my single signon and access from my windows client is broken. I would kind of like these last two things to be working but it is a low priority. Ultimately I would like to see how hard it is too integrate a Linux file server into a network and it use it for a QuickBooks company file. So far it looks like SBS is an easier solution.

Re: Safe way to remove old kernels

redhat.com | Red Hat, Inc.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 02:16:09AM -0230, Shane Lahey wrote:

> MM> Install the “yum-utils” package from Fedora Extras, and run:
> MM> sudo package-cleanup –oldkernels
> MM> (assuming you have sudo privileges, of course).
>
> Im still new to Fedora Core myself, diden’t realize there was a
> package-cleanup. Would it be better to use the package-cleanup rather
> than ‘rpm -e’, or do they both do the same thing?

yum-utils is new, so it’s no surprise it’s not widely known. Ultimately, it does the same thing as rpm -e, but it’s less prone to typos (oops! I removed all my kernels!) and has more features. Well, one feature — it can conveniently remove all kernels but the latest N (defaults to 2) in one swoop.

Local Admin/Power User Hall of Shame

Local Admin/Power User Hall of Shame

This site contains a partial list of programs that require Admin rights and do not support current security patches. The SBS Diva was writing about a vendor whose program support would not support users who had installed the current set of XP security patches.

It also has instructions on how to use QuickBooks with a restricted user. I will have to try it out although I am uncomfortable with an non Intuit solution.