9:38 PM
marulu
I was getting the following error while loading Front Accounting :
"OpenSSL PHP extension have to be enabled to use extension repository system."
Nothing I tried seemed to work and yes, the openssl line in php.ini was uncommented.
If I put phpinfo() in a test.php and ran it, it showed me : OpenSSL support + disabled (install ext/openssl)
Finally I copied all the lib*.dll files from PHP folder to the \windows\system32 folder on my Win XP PC. That did the trick...
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Friday, November 23, 2012
Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent
If you are getting an error which looks like :
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at
or an error which looks like this :
Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at
do the following:
Open php.ini from your php folder and change
output_buffering=off to output_buffering=4096
Then restart your Apache server.
The problem gets eliminated...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Automating Task on Linux
If you have been looking for a way to Automate a task on Linux, then this is the place for you. We used this in a bid to Automate SquirrelMail Backup on Ubuntu 9.04
Open /etc/crontab and add the following line in it:
50 08 * * * root /bak
This indicates that the executabe file named bak in / will run everyday at 08:50 am
we created the /bak file to backup IMAP folders in SquirrelMail on Ubuntu 9.04
To learn how to schedule a task in Windows, click her...
Schedule a task on Windows
If you are looking to Schedule a task on Windows or automate a task on Windows then you have indeed come to the right place. Read on...
We tried this on Windows XP with SP2:
Click on Start button
Click on All Programs
Click on Accessories
Click on System Tools
Click on Scheduled Tasks
Click on File
Click on New
Click on Scheduled Task
Name it what you want to.
Double click on it.
Click on Browse and select the program yo would like to run; in our case it was the batch file that we created here to copy a file from Linux to Windows.
Click on the Schedule tab and schedule task as per your needs.
I used Daily. Set the start time as per your requirement.
This will automatically carry out the task for you at the predefined time. This way I am able to automatically get the file copied from Ubuntu...
Automating SquirrelMail Backup on Ubuntu 9.04
If you are looking to automate SquirrelMail Backup on Ubuntu 9.04 or on any other flavor of Linux for that matter, read on...
Create a file called bak with the following contents and chmod 744 bak to make it executable.
rm /backup/*.ziprm -rf /backup/user_name/usr/local/imap_tools/imapdump.pl -f /backup/user_name -S localhost/user_name@your_domain/user_passwordzip -r /backup/user_name_`date '+%d%m%Y'` /backup/user_name/.
The first line will delete any zipped files existing in the backup folder called backup in this case.
The second line will delete the backup of the IMAP folders that already exist from last time's backup. This is important since if the user had 20 emails in the last backup and he has thereafter deleted 5 emails that he does not require, the numbers get moved...
Restore SquirrelMail Backup
If you are looking to restore SquirrelMail backup, then you can follow the how to here:
First, copy the backup file from Windows to Linux using the instructions here. Or if it is already on Linux, you have nothing to worry about.
cd /backup
where backup is the folder where you backup squirrelmail and zip it.
Just unzip the zipped file by giving the command:
unzip zipfilename -d tmpThis will unzip the folders and files under tmp folder.
If you have followed the instructions on how to Backup SquirrelMail on Ubuntu 9.04 then you will have already copied dumptoIMAP.pl to /usr/local/imap_tools.
Create a user called test using ISPConfig.
The following command will restore the INBOX from SquirrelMail to user testuser.
/usr/local/imap_tools/dumptoIMAP.pl -i localhost/test@genopharma.com/password...
Copy a file from Windows to Linux
If you are looking to copy a file from Win XP to Ubuntu 9.04:
On your Windows PC, download pscp.exe from here.
Suppose you copied the pscp.exe to a folder called linux on D drive and the file you want to transfer from Windows to Linux is bak.zip then the command :
d:\linux\pscp.exe d:\bak.zip linux_user@linux_ip_address:/windows
will copy the d:\bak.zip to a folder called windows under / on Linux.
If you get an error like :
pscp: unable to open <file name>: permission denied.
It means that the linux_user you are looing into the server with does not have write permissions to the specified folder called windows in this case. This folder was probably made by su or at least logged in as sudo su.
Run the following command logged in as sudo su to eliminate this problem.
chown linux_user...
How to copy a file from Linux to Windows
If you are looking to copy a file from Linux to Windows, look no further.
Download pscp.exe from here. The one I downloaded earlier gave me the error : pscp.exe is not a valid win32 application. Hence, I downloaded it from here.
On your Windows PC, create a folder. I created d:\bak on my WIN XP
PC and copied the pscp.exe there. I also ran a batch file
called bak.bat which contains:
pscp.exe -pw users_password user@server_ip_addr:/backup/*.zip d:\bak
This will copy all the zip files from the backup folder on your Linux machine to the bak folder in the D drive of your Windows PC. This was tested on a PC running WIN XP.
If you would like to learn how to copy a file from Windows to Linux, click here....
Zip folder with subfolders in Linux
If you are looking to zip folder in Linux with all its contents including subfolders you can make use of this :
zip -r zip_file_name /path_of_folder_with_subfolders
For example :
zip -r backup /backup/user
will backup the entire contents of /backup/user including files and subfolders to a file backup.z...
How to Backup SquirrelMail on Ubuntu 9.04
If you have been looking for ways to backup SquirrelMail then this is the place for you.
To start with, I found that the emails are stored one in each file in /var/vmail/our-domain-name/user/cur when read and in /var/vmail/our-domain-name/user/new when unread. I tried to make a test user using ISPConfig and copied the mail folder /var/vmail/our-domain-name/user to /var/vmail/our-domain-name/testuser but I did not get the results that I was looking for. After searching the Net and learning a few things, I have come up with this how-to for other Linux enthusiasts so that they can easily backup SquirrelMail.
After logging in as sudo su:
1. Create a folder called imap_tools under /usr/local.
2. Download these files to this folder :
imapdump.pl : This...
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Transfer music from PC to iPhone
Here you will learn how to copy songs from PC to iPhone, copy songs from PC to iPod or copy songs from PC to iPad.
Now that we managed to successfully transfer music files from iPod to PC, we were now asked to transfer the files from PC to iPhone. One can do it using iTunes, but it is always at a risk since the synchronization might happen in the wrong direction and you might be left with your existing files wiped out.
This time we downloaded another software that we got for free, the Copy Trans Suite (Install_CopyTrans_Suite.exe) which we downloaded here. This time we used the Apple iPhone A1387 model. However, when we installed the software, it did not detect the iPhone. We did a restart although it didn't ask us to and thereafter it detected the iPhone as a 4S. We then successfully copied...
Transfer music from iPod to PC
Here you will learn how to copy songs from iPod to PC, copy songs from iPhone to PC or copy songs from iPad to PC.
If you have been looking to find out how to transfer music files from your iPod to your PC, you have indeed come to the right place. You may use iTunes but this is very risky as if you don't turn off the synchronizing option, you can lose all your music files from your iPod.
Hence, we looked for something else other than iTunes.We used iPod PC Transfer Suite (ipssetup.exe) which we downloaded here. This is a software that can be purchased for something like $30. In this free trial, you can save the music files to compute but then you have to click on each one and save manually; you cannot save them all at one shot for which you have to purchase the software. This was...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
WIN 2003 TFTP Password
When our diskless nodes stopped booting from the server today, we restarted the server and after that we found that the TFTP service was stopped. (You can learn how to restart TFTP service here). This was the first reboot we had done after changing the administrator password on the WIN 2003 server. When we tried to restart the service, we got the error:
Could not start the terminal FTP Daemon service on local computer. Error 1069: Service did not start due to login failure.
At first, we just changed the password back to the old one and got it to work. Read more here.
On playing around some more, we found that the user name and password are stored in the services itself.
(Click on Start button, click on Administrative tools, click on Services, scroll down till you find Trivial FTP...
Windows 2003 Password Policy
While attempting to change the administrator password on WIN 2003 you might get the fillowing error; in such cases you might need to alter your password policy.
Error : Windows cannot set the password for <so-and-so user> because: The password does
not meet the password policy requirements. Check the minimum password
length, password complexity and password history requirements.
To relax the Win 2003 password policy or password restrictions we made the necessary changes
((Click on Start button, click on Administrative tools, click on
Security Settings, click on Account Policies, click on Password Policy.
For each of the parameters on the right, double click on each one and uncheck "Define this policy setting".
Next go to the command prompt (Click Start...
Monday, February 27, 2012
Changing Administrator Password on WIN 2003 Server
If you are looking to change the administrator password on WIN 2003 server, do the following:
Click Start button,
click on Administrative Tools, click on Active directory Users and
Computer, Scroll to the bottom on the left, click on Users, click on
Administrator on the right side right at the top, right click and then
click on Reset Password.
While changing the password, if you get an error message like the following, see how to resolve it here.
Windows cannot set the password for <so-and-so user> because: The password does
not meet the password policy requirements. Check the minimum password
length, password complexity and password history requirements....
WIN 2003 - Diskless nodes not booting
Today we had a strange problem; the diskless nodes were not booting into our WIN 2003 server. On scrutiny it was found that the TFTP service was not started.
If you don't know how to restart the TFTP Daemon service, (Click on Start button, click on Administrative tools, click on Services, scroll down till you find Trivial FTP Daemon, right click on it and click on Start)
But we got an error like : Could not start the terminal FTP Daemon service on local computer. Error 1069: Service did not start due to login failure.
We did change the WIN 2003 server password a few days earlier. Because the error mentioned something about login failure we suspected it might be the new password that was causing the problem so we tried to change the password back. But meanwhile after installing the server...