Monthly Archives: April 2006

Building ming.so for PHP

Grab the ming-php tar-ball from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=18365&package_id=13925 copy the contents of php_ext/ to your PHP source directory’s ext/ming/ directory; overwriting anything that is in there. ./configure —with-ming=shared,/usr assuming /usr is the prefix you used when installing the main ming application package.

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MySQL purge master logs.

MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 13.6.1.1 PURGE MASTER LOGS Syntax There’s a neat little trick in the comments section about how to purge the binary MySQL logs after 30 days: PURGE MASTER LOGS BEFORE DATE_SUB( NOW(), INTERVAL 31 DAY);

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Extending Mailman list invitation expiration

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-April/043999.html in mm_cfg.py # Default length of time a pending request is live before it is evicted from # the pending database. PENDING_REQUEST_LIFE = days(3) By default after three days Mailman will trash the invitations you have sent people to … Continue reading

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USB storage problems with Mandriva

Make sure you mount the usbfs on /proc/bus/usb : mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb Duh; I spend some time searching around for that one.

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