I have volunteered to help the Hastings Music Festival with their information technology systems and have the task of migrating their bespoke Access database to an online version. This is going to be a challenging project, which hopefully will reduce the administrative burden on their army of volunteers.
The other newsworthy post of today is a puzzle. One of my clients runs a linux server with Samba providing file-sharing to their network. Part of the role of this machine is to provide real-time telephone statistics via a plugin I wrote for PHP-Nuke. In order to make this system work, it needs to map a shared windows drive into the linux filesystem. The mount is set to activate at boot in fstab, yet every time the server is downed, the shared drive is not mounted. Any suggestions?
fstab snippet below (username and password blanked out)
//oak/advance /var/www/html/modules/Phone_Stats/raw smbfs password=*****,username=***** 0 0
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Bits and Bobs
A few jobs on today, some not even IT related (although you could argue that wiring a scart lead from a video recorder to a tv is technology).
I set up a blog for a racing tips service at http://www.samphire85.info/ and sorted out a few network niggles for one of my bigger clients, including re-training spamassassin so it didn't mis-identify emails from their domain as spam. sa-learn is a useful tool - I'll have to spend a few hours learning the various command line options for future reference.
A synopsis of the options are below;
--ham Learn messages as ham (non-spam)
--spam Learn messages as spam
--forget Forget a message
--rebuild Rebuild the database if needed
--force-expire Force an expiry run, rebuild every time
-f file, --folders=file Read list of files/directories from file
--dir Learn a directory of RFC 822 files
--file Learn a file in RFC 822 format
--mbox Learn a file in mbox format
--showdots Show progress using dots
--no-rebuild Skip building databases after scan
-L, --local Operate locally, no network accesses
-C file, --config-file=file Path to standard configuration dir
-p prefs, --prefs-file=file Set user preferences file
-D, --debug-level Print debugging messages
-V, --version Print version
-h, --help Print usage message
I set up a blog for a racing tips service at http://www.samphire85.info/ and sorted out a few network niggles for one of my bigger clients, including re-training spamassassin so it didn't mis-identify emails from their domain as spam. sa-learn is a useful tool - I'll have to spend a few hours learning the various command line options for future reference.
A synopsis of the options are below;
--ham Learn messages as ham (non-spam)
--spam Learn messages as spam
--forget Forget a message
--rebuild Rebuild the database if needed
--force-expire Force an expiry run, rebuild every time
-f file, --folders=file Read list of files/directories from file
--dir Learn a directory of RFC 822 files
--file Learn a file in RFC 822 format
--mbox Learn a file in mbox format
--showdots Show progress using dots
--no-rebuild Skip building databases after scan
-L, --local Operate locally, no network accesses
-C file, --config-file=file Path to standard configuration dir
-p prefs, --prefs-file=file Set user preferences file
-D, --debug-level Print debugging messages
-V, --version Print version
-h, --help Print usage message
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