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New Mail Server

I have been working on setting up mail server for BizHat.com Mail for last few weeks.   Today i have finished the work and made the Mail server public.   http://mail.bizhat.com   The service will allow users to signup for


Postfix Mail Server

I am now studying postfix mail server. Already setup postfix on server22.hosthat.com and is working great with basic configuration. Now it only handle one domain name, that is real user (system accounts).   I have brought The Book of Postfix


BizHat.com Home Page redesigned

Two days back, i redesigned home page of bizhat   New design is available at   www.bizhat.com   Old design is backed up at   www.bizhat.com/index_new.php    


New Free Hosted phpBB forum site

I have created a new site for free hosted phpBB forums at   http://phpbb.bizhat.com   Just added one FQA entry, need to create some more FAQ’s.


Mail Server Setup with LDAP

Last two days i was working on new email server setup with LDAP.   Installed OpenLDAP on local FreeBSD server, still can’t get it working with qmail or postfix.   I have to read a lot of documents qmail and


Builing MySQL RPM from source RPM

On my Fedora Core 3 local test Linux server, MySQL version was 3.x   I upgraded MySQL with bindary download from MySQL.com   Few days back i tried to compile a program with mysql library and got error, it seems


Portupgrade pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format

After upgrading FreeBSD from v6 to 6.1, i tried to upgrade all software installed on the server with portupgrade.   I start getting the error   [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg … /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format — Invalid


Upgrading FreeBSD 6 to 6.1 on remote server

Today i upgraded FreeBSD 6 on server26.hosthat.com to FreeBSD 6.1 You can find instruction on how to do the upgrade at http://www.daemonology.net/ After FreeBSD upgrade server26# uname -aFreeBSD server26.hosthat.com 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:32:43 UTC 2006 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC


BizHat.com Adds New Programmer

Today (1 JULY 2006) new staff jointed in BizHat.com as programmer.   He is working on rebuilding classified advertisement web site of bizhat.com   http://classifieds.bizhat.com   Present classified site have lot of spam, the new software will have option to


Mambo Upgraded to Joomla

I was using Mambo CMS on my site   http://www.webhostingneeds.com   The version i used was too old, v 4.5  (1.0.1)   I tried few times to get this upgrade, but could not figure out how to do this with out