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If you want to install CPAN modules as Debian packages, this HOWTO is for you.

First, install dh-make-perl:

Then build & install the package. For example, if you wish to install the module Nagios::Plugins::Memcached from CPAN, simply run:

You’re done.

Configuring Mutt with IMAP is as easy as editing your .muttrc and adding the following lines.

You can then change folders inside of Mutt by pressing ‘c’ and then ‘?’ to get a folder list.

I was getting the error “ERROR 1286 (42000): Unknown table engine ‘InnoDB’” when trying to create/alter tables with the InnoDB engine. You can check for this warning by issuing the create or alter statements and then running

Check if you have InnoDB support enabled:

The problem is that InnoDB is not enabled by default in Debian distributions of my.cnf.  To enable it, simply comment the following lines under the [mysqld] section.

#skip-innodb

This is the easiest way to find a JetDirect printer on port 9100 on your local network. Useful in those cases you’re on site with a client and need to print something.

Simply run

Since GTalk is totally complaint with Jabber, all you need to do to make your jabber server communicate with it is enable S2S in your DJabberd configuration. Also, you might need to setup a SRV record so remote jabber servers know how to communicate back to your vhost.

Add this to your djabber.conf VHost section at the top.

Next, add the SRV records. More information can be found by following…

http://jabberd.jabberstudio.org/2/docs/section05.html#5_7

Which means, you essentially add this (on BIND servers) to the domain configuration.

Check that they took by running…

Now start adding your contacts just by using the GMail email address.. e.g

Checkout the latest SVN copy

First install dependencies

Now install DJabberd

Now create the SSL certificates

Create the server configuration file /etc/djabberd/server.conf

OldSSL  enable
# health checks from this IP (directive can be repeated) won't log and
# won't allocate a connection id
DeclareMonitor 127.0.0.1
AdminPort 5200
ClientPort 5222
ServerPort 5269
SSLCertificateFile    /etc/djabberd/server-cert.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/djabberd/server-key.pem 

<VHost alliance.com>
  S2S enable
  RequireSSL yes
  <Plugin DJabberd::Authen::HTDigest>
    Realm djabberd
    HtDigest /etc/djabberd/djabberd.users
  </Plugin>
  <Plugin DJabberd::RosterStorage::SQLite>
    Database /etc/djabberd/djabberd.sqlite
  </Plugin>
  <Plugin DJabberd::Authen::MySQL>
    DBName               djabberd
    DBHost               127.0.0.1
    DBPort               6723
    DBUsername           dbusername
    DBPassword           dbpassword
    DBTable              user
    DBUsernameColumn     username
    DBPasswordColumn     password
    DBEncryptedPasswords 1
    DBWhere              canjabber = 1
  </Plugin> 

</VHost>

Start the server