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Errors with email2trac on freeBSD

by Merlijn on April 6, 2011, no comments

Seeing errors like this? Apr 5 12:32:04 socrates ?<11>email2trac : Failure sending notification on creation of ticket #1101: Can’t extract file(s) to egg cache The following error occurred while trying to extract file(s) to the Python egg cache: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘/nonexistent’ The Python egg cache directory is currently set to: /nonexistent/.python-eggs Perhaps your [...]

Mysterious crashes of netatalk on freeBSD 8

by Merlijn on February 14, 2010, one comment

I experienced mysterious crashes of the netatalk daemon installed on a freeBSD8 box. The apfd was advertised with mdnsresponder, but at the moment I tried connecting to the shares, the afpd crashed. Nothing showed in the usual logs. I tried several debugging modes, but nothing seemed to give any clue where I had to find [...]

Mailman on freeBSD with Postfix

by Merlijn on September 24, 2005, no comments

One of my co-workers asked me if I could help him with sending emails to over 100 people. On certain planets this would be considered as spamming, but all the addresses are prospects or exisiting customers. Until now, he was used to send the mails one by one. But the address list grew larger and [...]

Finally… sasl with virtual accounts in mysql working!

by Merlijn on September 18, 2005, no comments

*sigh* This bothered me from the moment I got my new postfix mailserver. Everything worked…tls/amavisd-new/courier/plain-sasl/postfix all with mysql. But somehow I didn’t get sasl working with the virtual user accounts in mysql. I tried almost everything and nothing worked. Once in a while I tried to get it working again, but every time it ended [...]

Entering the world of version control

by Merlijn on August 20, 2005, no comments

Doing PHP development for several years now, I never really understood version control and how to integrate it with my web-application development. For “traditional” programming, it is clear. You create a repository, all the developers keep in sync and commit their updates. But being the whole development team yourself and have code that for 100% [...]