Life of Wiley

Oh dear, not feeling with it today at all. Last night I only got about 4 hours sleep instead of my usual 8 and now I’m suffering (hence my imood at the top of the page).

I couldn’t sleep because my mind was racing. It’s the band’s AGM next Tuesday and, as I’m acting Chairman, I’ve got to do a report and orate it to the assembled mess, I mean mass! It’s not the public speaking that bothers me (I do that all the time with my preaching), it’s the fact that I’ve got to try and cover off the highs and lows of the previous year and try and enthuse the band for the coming year; all this whilst making sure I don’t forget to thank certain key people.

Oh well, at least I managed to get the virtual domain stuff working in Exim and Courier IMAP on the new server I’m putting together for home. I’m building it on an old Toshiba laptop running Linux (RedHat 9). The idea is that I can stick this in the loft where it needn’t be turned off whenever guests come to stay, as currently happens with the Windows PC in the spare bedroom.

Getting the webserver (Apache), PHP and MySQL database server working was a doddle. Once I’d dumped and then imported the current MySQL data into the new database Moveable Type (weblog) and Coppermine (photogallery) just worked. Getting Courier IMAP working was just a matter of going through the documentation to get the maildir and authentication stuff working, and then the only problem was with Exim deliveries but that didn’t take too long to suss out. So good work on the documentation for all those software packages. I’ve just got to check that awstats works and find a decent webmail package.

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