After updating my desktop (Gentoo), I was unable to startup kuroo. As usual, a post on the Gentoo Forumsprovided me with the needed answer:

rm ~/.kde/share/config/session/kuroo*
rm ~/.kde/share/config/kuroorc
su -c 'cp /var/cache/kuroo/backup ~/KurooBackup -rf'
su -c 'rm -rf /var/cache/kuroo'

I've been looking for a way to archive my mail and keep it readable from my email client. I work with evolution on a local Courier-IMAP server, running on my server.

Finally found it through imapsync. This one program is able to login your IMAP account, parse through your IMAP folder and move mail to another IMAP account if it matches certain criteria. I wanted to move mail that's older than 1 year. So I made an extra IMAP account 'archive' and had imapsync move my old mail items there.

The command looks as follows:

imapsync
  --host1 mail.olympus.home --user1 james@mail.olympus.home --passfile1 /etc/courier/mailarchive/james --authmech1 LOGIN
  --host2 mail.olympus.home --user2 archive@mail.olympus.home --passfile2 /etc/courier/mailarchive/archive --authmech2 LOGIN
  --minage 365 --syncinternaldates --syncacls -nofoldersizes --delete --expunge --expunge1

Only when running this the second time, it expunges the moved mail from the source account. Further it got stuck on one mail message (with a 108 Mb attachment) ending the process with "Out of memory". I moved that message manually, before running imapsync again.

And adding this command to my crontab makes mail archiving easy. I still have to watch out for concurrent IMAP access, but setting the cron entry on moment when I'm not working, solves that problem for me as well.

Imapsync can be found at http://www.linux-france.org/prj/.

eix is a indexing tool for Gentoo's portage or as they call it a "Small utility for searching ebuilds with indexing for fast results"

layman is a portage overlay manager, adding extra (custom or user) ebuilds to the ones of Gentoo.

Now wouldn't it be nice if those two can work together, making it possible to search and index the added overlays.Well, by default it doesn't. It looks like eix can't understand layman's entry :

source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf

To fix this, have layman add the overlay entries directly into /etc/make.conf by changing the make_conf entry in /etc/layman/layman.cfg like this

make_conf : /etc/make.conf

Now your update-eix will find the newly added overlays and start indexing them. Happy searching!

When restarting Apache on Gentoo I was getting messages like these :

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart *
Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... *
Stopping apache2 ... [ ok ] *
Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... *
Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... *
Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... *
Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... *
Starting apache2 ...

It took only a little while to find out that a simple command like

/etc/init.d/depscan.sh --update

solved the problem for me.

I have a little apache server running on my desktop to test out stuff. Every web developer does have one.

I have configured mine to use virtual hosts. In my local DNS (another machine), I pointed all subdomains of my desktop to my desktop as well. An example: subdomain.desktop.mydomain.home is pointing at my desktop (desktop.mydomain.home).

Now I can have my apache on my desktop treat subdomains of itself as seperate websites, with the use of VirtualHosts. This has always worked very well, untill today. Something must have changed in the parsing of the config. This is no longer valid, it seems:

<virtualhost>
   DocumentRoot /var/www/subdomain/htdocs
   ServerName subdomain.desktop.mydomain.home
   <directory var="" www="" subdomain="" htdocs="">
       AllowOverride All
       Options FollowSymLinks
       Order allow,deny
       Allow from All
    </directory>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteOptions inherit
   </virtualhost>

I had to put the values of DocumentRoot and ServerName between quotes before I got them to work again, like this:

<virtualhost>
   DocumentRoot "/var/www/subdomain/htdocs"
   ServerName "subdomain.desktop.mydomain.home"
   <directory var="" www="" subdomain="" htdocs="">
       AllowOverride All
       Options FollowSymLinks
       Order allow,deny
       Allow from All
    </directory>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteOptions inherit
</virtualhost>

Hope this helps...