Local IT Solutions

  • Plesk Control Panel Upgrades

    I am running the SW-Soft Plesk control panel for my hosting platform and I had a couple of issues with the version 7.5.2 -> 7.5.4 upgrade. Check out this thread on SW-Soft forum site for details on the fix… it has first a couple of issues for me already – especially around the flagging of…

  • Compiling PHP 5.1.2 on Solaris 8

    [ UPDATE to a previous post ] If you are compiling PHP 5.1.2 and you get errors like: ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Another alternative that you can pursue it to compile with CFLAGS=-mimpure-text on the make command. Hope this helps someone… it caused me…

  • OpenVPN Configuration on Mac OS X Server 10.4

    I have finally been motivated enough to get a customer’s Mac OS X Server 10.4 machine going with OpenVPN. I really want to be able to proactively manage the devices on the customer’s site – IP phones, their server and the gateway… both to provide performance management and much faster troubleshooting. The process is pretty…

  • Apple iPods working with Windows XP SP2

    I have finally found a solution that works for me… Disable the Enhanced USB Driver in Device Manager and plug in your iPod – and then click Restore… it works just fine. Just about to try it on another machine, but it definitely looks like the solution!!! I have wasted about 2 days on this……

  • UPDATED: Setting up mirrored disks on Debian

    Check out this site that I found regarding mirroring disks on the fly… Debian-Administration.org. This saved me some considerable grief when one drive in a customers server crashed… was able to replace the disk and re-establish the mirror without having to rebuild. BTW – I know this is how it should be – I have…

  • DNS Settings on Mac OS X from the command-line

    > list Setup:/Network/Service/0/DNS > show Setup:/Network/Service/0/DNS { ServerAddresses : { 0 : 192.168.XXX.XXX } DomainName : XXX.taglab.com } > show State:/Network/Global/DNS { ServerAddresses : { 0 : 192.168.XXX.XXX } DomainName : XXX.taglab.com } We can change the setting by doing: > get Setup:/Network/Service/0/DNS > d.show { ServerAddresses : { 0 : 192.168.XXX.XXX } DomainName :…