I have to admit it, I’m an old-skool Unix administrator. Once started with Linux 0.99pl14 and finished daily administration of HP’s and IBM’s a couple of years ago. So forgive me for looking for /etc/inittab to change the default runlevel of the server. Edgy does not use the traditional init daemon anymore, but upstart. Not sure what was wrong with init, especially when one takes into account that upstart does not have a replacement for the default runlevel. Yet?
$ sudo apt-get install ruby -y
$ sudo apt-get install irb -y
Yep, it’s that simple. I’m starting to love Ubuntu (or apt-get, not sure if that’s an Ubuntu only thing).
Gallery seems to be in working order again. I made an MySQL export in Windows before I took the plunge and installed Ubuntu. After importing the whole Gallery-database, the application did not recognize the data and said that it was not installed, or it just gave a big fat error. So I dropped the database, created the database with the installer from Gallery (empty) and though: now let’s import the data. And after numerous “table not found” errors in MySQL I saw what had happened. Windows does not care about case in filenames. So creating a database-table in MySQL results in a file in small-characters. When running Linux (or some other case-sensitive OS) size matters. So I dropped the empty database, imported my backup, and manually renamed the tables to proper casing. Pffew…that worked. I only had to recreate all thumbnails, and that was it.
After lots of attempt to bring life to my Windows installation, and having problems with a new Windows-installation on a seperate disk (Apache kept crashing without any specific reason), I finally switched back to Linux again. The “temporary” Windows solution lasted already about 6 years, so it was about time. The server is now Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft). The domains (dns) work, the mailserver works, my weblog is getting back up.
Gallery is giving some problems as well, I’m not sure why.
So, stay tuned, and everything will be back to normal in the next couple of days.
Oh, and a belated Happy Holidays!
Tomorrow, or Monday, I will be conducting some server maintenance. A new 250GB disc will be installed to give the website, especially the gallery, more room to breathe.
Today I bought the Sony Ericsson W850i. What a change from my Nokia 6230i. It’s small, it looks snazzy, and it is very easy to use. The device is a phone, a camera, an mp3 player, a radio, a videocamera and a portable game-console all in one!