/hbin

created a symlink from /usr/local/hosting/bin to /hbin - will save some typing :)

squirrelmail plugins

i activated the following squirrelmail plugins via squirrelmail-configure:
1. newmail
2. translate
3. squirrelspell
4. filters
5. administrator

add yourself to /etc/squirrelmail/admins if you like (make a new line)

ispell added

The following extra packages will be installed:
dictionaries-common iamerican
Suggested packages:
emacsen-common jed-extra spell
Recommended packages:
wamerican wordlist
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dictionaries-common iamerican ispell
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 770kB of archives.
After unpacking 2090kB of additional disk space will be used.
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default dictionary is american english (en_US) - should be changed to en_UK some time..

apt-get upgrade

phpwiki wouldn't install because of a md5 checksum error for libreadline5. unlikely but i thought maybe an outdated apt version could be responsible for it. so i did an upgrade and rebooted mokey. some pretty important packages got an upgrade. let's see what that does.. :)

apt-get upgrade output:
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Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
lilo
The following packages will be upgraded:
apt-show-versions dialog doc-linux-text hdparm kernel-package
libdbd-mysql-perl libglib2.0-0 libident libidn11 libperl5.8 login makedev
passwd perl perl-base perl-doc perl-modules php4 phpmyadmin
19 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 26.9MB of archives.
After unpacking 203kB disk space will be freed.
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hm, still have the md5 checksum error for libreadline5.. i'll see if i can make it ignore it somehow.

phpwiki installed

first i did a apt-get update and then apt-get install phpwiki. output:
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The following extra packages will be installed:
libapache-mod-php4 libreadline5 libsqlite0 php4-cli php4-common php4-mysql
php4-pear php4-sqlite sqlite
Suggested packages:
php4-dev sqlite-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libreadline5 libsqlite0 php4-cli php4-pear php4-sqlite phpwiki sqlite
The following packages will be upgraded:
libapache-mod-php4 php4-common php4-mysql
3 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 20 not upgraded.
Need to get 156kB/5358kB of archives.
After unpacking 11.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
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so it upgraded php4 as well. let's hope this didn't break things. it shouldn't..

mokey blog created

hello there, the sys admins of the webserver mokey - matthew and me so far - will post comments about changes on the server here. so it's a lot of nerdy internal stuff and might not be too interesting to read for a third party. :)