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Grepping Hell

Icon Written by tig on March 10, 2010 – 11:37 am

Well that was a tad embarrassing I thought I had lost the ability to grep. All I wanted to do was find any instances of jt1.name in files in the current directory, simple I thought :
grep jt1.name *
Nope
That returned loads of hits that didn’t match at all eg :

modules/UpgradeWizard/commit.php:$from_dir = clean_path(remove_file_extension($install_file) [...]



SugarCRM Sales Stage Problem

Icon Written by tig on November 4, 2009 – 5:57 pm

For future reference boys and girls the Sales Stage in SugarCRM can only be 25 characters long….
Well over 2 hours it took me to find that out…

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Openfire Active Directory Authentication

Icon Written by tig on October 26, 2009 – 12:03 pm

Oh the joy and the pain of this….
After a very long time I have now got this working how I want it but it was painful getting the right runes to make the two play nicely.
What I wanted:

To have a group in AD that could access and authenticate to Openfire
To have a groups in Openfire [...]



CVSNT SSH Access: No Such Repository

Icon Written by tig on September 24, 2009 – 4:31 pm

CVSNT is a drop in replacement for CVS so they say
Well ish…   To cut a very long story short I had a problem very similar to this one. I had removed my old CVS install and installed CVSNT in its place.
I go to a dev machine,  use WinCVS and BANG no such repository!   [...]



Why lobby when you can lunch in Corfu

Icon Written by tig on August 25, 2009 – 9:05 pm

I will assume you have heard the news about Lord Mandy, Geffen and a quick paid for amendment to UK Gov policy…
On http://gl.u.gg a forum for nice people Spinnie who has a flair for playing devil’s advocate said
Civil rights groups? It’s a civil right to steal stuff? I must have missed [...]



It is that time of year again…

Icon Written by tig on August 23, 2009 – 8:45 pm


OpenFire XMPP Server on Debian

Icon Written by tig on July 6, 2009 – 2:54 pm

I was asked today to set up an IM server for internal use,   originally they were specifying Windows messanger but I was able to suggest we try a proper standards based system instead
So I need a server,  a few clicks in the Proxmox interface ( a rather nice way of handling OpenVZ virtualisation) [...]



It’s here!

Icon Written by tig on May 19, 2009 – 3:18 pm


Hurrah

Icon Written by tig on May 12, 2009 – 4:44 pm

…but this is not what I am waiting for…



Something is coming…

Icon Written by tig on April 20, 2009 – 11:04 am

It’s been sent out by ******* but UPS state it’s somewhere between there and blighty.