Andrew’s PHP unzip poem
When I thought I needed to recompile PHP 5 to get the unzip function for Installatron for Plesk Reloaded, Andrew helped me find yum install php-pecl-zip and everything all started to work.
archive for September 2007
SSH hangs accessing CentOS4 in VMware
CentOS 4, VMware and SSH are three things that I cannot get to work together. Let me tell you the whole story and hopefully you'll be able to spot a blindingly obvious mistake that I can't.
Running a command as a /bin/false user
In case anyone else wants to run a command as a user whose default shell is set to /bin/false, type this:
Moving to CentOS
I've finally decided that enough is enough with DirectAdmin. It's haphazard way of downloading tar.gzs and compiling from source to random places that it only knows is a sure way to make a disaster in the future. Not only does this make applying updates a cumbersome process, as it doesn't use any sort of repository or anything, it also means that when something does go wrong it can take ages to track down.
