Super easy as I had MySQL 5.0.45 installed previously. Just went to http://www.mysql.com/downloads/ and grabbed the tar.gz file. After mysqldump’ing my old databases I simply ran these steps:

sudo mv ~/Downloads/mysql-5.5.8-osx10.6-x86_64.tar.gz /usr/local
cd /usr/local/
sudo tar -xvf mysql-5.5.8-osx10.6-x86_64.tar.gz
sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql-5.5.8-osx10.6-x86_64 mysql
cd mysql
sudo chown -R _mysql .
sudo chgrp -R _mysql .
scripts/mysql_install_db –user=mysql
sudo chown -R root .
sudo chown -R _mysql data
sudo /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe –user=mysql

I then reimported my data by opening a mysql prompt, creating the database, exiting, and then reimporting my data with mysql -u root -p db name < mysqldump file

#!/usr/bin/python
import os
for i in range(1,500):
	cmd = '/var/indimail/bin/vadduser mal'+str(i)+'@domain.com password'
	os.system(cmd)
	print cmd

indimail batch user adding like:
mail1@domain.com with password
mail2@domain.com with password
mail3@domain.com with password
..
..

You can manually convert strings that you read from files, however there is an easier way:

import codecs
fileObj = codecs.open( "someFile", "r", "utf-8" )
u = fileObj.read() # Returns a Unicode string from the UTF-8 bytes in the file

The codecs module will take care of all the conversions for you. You can also open a file for writing and it will convert the Unicode strings you pass in to write into whatever encoding you have chosen. However, take a look at the note below about the byte-order marker (BOM).

Quick instructions that worked at least for me:

$ sudo rpm -Uvh http://yum.chrislea.com/centos/5/i386/chl-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
$ sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CHL
$ sudo yum install python26
$ python26

Writing a Python program can be done using any editor, even a text editor. If you are running Ubuntu Linux, you may want to edit your code using Eclipse. Eclipse is an Integrated Development Environment or IDE for building, deploying and managing software. It is a source code editor and provides trace and debugging facilities. The Eclipse Project was originally created by IBM in November 2001 and supported by a consortium of software vendors. Today, the Eclipse community consists of individuals and organizations from a cross section of the software industry.

Install Eclipse

1. Install Eclipse and Sun’s Java by running the following:

2. Make Sun’s Java the default by running the following:

3. Edit the JVM configuration file:

4. and add the following to the top of the file:

5. If you have 1GB or more of memory, you may want to increase the heap size for better performance. The argument Xms refers to the minimum heap size and Xmx refers to the maximum heap size. Edit the Eclipse script file:

6. and change VMARGS=”" to the following:

Install PyDev

1. Run Eclipse and then go to Help | Software Updates | Find and Install…

2. In the Feature Updates window, select Search for new features to install and click Next.

3. In the Install window, select New Remote Site.

4. In the New Update Site window, specify the following:

5. In the Search Results window, select both PyDev Extensions and click Next.

6. In the Feature License window, agree to the license agreement and click Next.

7. Configure the Python interpreter by going to Window | Preferences | Pydev | Interpreter – Python.

8. In the Python interpreters section, click New.

9. Locate your Python interpreter (e.g., /usr/bin/python).

10. When prompted, select your System PYTHONPATH. You can just leave the default checkboxes selected and click OK.

For further details about PyDev and additional information, visit the PyDev site.

[root@proxy1 ~]# ./mail.py
send: ‘ehlo sender.host.net\r\n’
reply: ‘250-smtp.host.net\r\n’
reply: ‘250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5\r\n’
reply: ‘250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5\r\n’
reply: ‘250-PIPELINING\r\n’
reply: ‘250-8BITMIME\r\n’
reply: ‘250-SIZE 10000000\r\n’
reply: ‘250-ETRN\r\n’
reply: ‘250-ATRN\r\n’
reply: ‘250 HELP\r\n’
reply: retcode (250); Msg: smtp.host.net
AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5
AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5
PIPELINING
8BITMIME
SIZE 10000000
ETRN
ATRN
HELP
send: ‘STARTTLS\r\n’
reply: ‘454 TLS missing certificate: error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory (#4.3.0)\r\n’
reply: retcode (454); Msg: TLS missing certificate: error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory (#4.3.0)
send: ‘AUTH CRAM-MD5\r\n’
reply: ‘334 ***************************=\r\n’
reply: retcode (334); Msg: ***************************=
send: ‘ ***************************\r\n’
reply: ‘535 authorization failed (#5.7.1)\r\n’
reply: retcode (535); Msg: authorization failed (#5.7.1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./mail.py”, line 31, in ?
smtpserver.login(sender,password)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.4/smtplib.py”, line 587, in login
raise SMTPAuthenticationError(code, resp)
smtplib.SMTPAuthenticationError: (535, ‘authorization failed (#5.7.1)’)

solution

ADD redline after ehlo()

…

smtpserver.ehlo()
smtpserver.esmtp_features["auth"] = “LOGIN PLAIN”
smtpserver.starttls()
..

also you can pass into debug mode with “smtpserver.set_debuglevel(1)“

Sets whether a client disconnect should cause a script to be aborted.

When running PHP as a command line script, and the script’s tty goes away without the script being terminated then the script will die the next time it tries to write anything, unless value is set to TRUE

call the function at top of the script like this:

// Ignore user aborts and allow the script
// to run forever
ignore_user_abort(true);
set_time_limit(0);

be careful before call it, it can be dangerous, you can need a “httpd restart” or server can fire cause of loads

codes are simple and can be implemented quickly.

project home: https://launchpad.net/txmailserver
to download :

bzr branch lp:txmailserver

Bug Description

Binary package hint: network-manager

This bug causes name resolution to be painfully slow. If I manually remove the routers ip from resolv.conf it works normally, but next time the machine is booted the address gets added to the list again. I found the only way around this was to lock the file. “sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf” so that network manager would not re-edit the file upon boot. I have seen this problem many times on the forums, and believe it should be made a priority to fix this. This “slow internet” gives people a horrible first impression of Ubuntu, and seems it would be easy enough to to fix. Thank you for our time.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: network-manager 0.8-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: hostname 2.6.32-18.27-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Tue Apr 6 00:42:02 2010
Gconf:

IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid Lynx” – Beta amd64 (20100318)
IpRoute:
192.168.2.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.5 metric 1
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
default via 192.168.2.1 dev eth0 proto static
Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
RfKill:

SourcePackage: network-manager

sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

after this command your resolv.conf file will be locked and the file will not change on boot, or after create new connection

Installing Apache

1. Open Terminal (Application -> Accessories -> Terminal) and execute the following command:

sudo apt-get install apache2

2. When the setup is complete you can check if the Apache is working properly by pointing your browser to http://localhost. If you see the text “It works!”, it means Apache is working just fine.

3. Towards the end of the installation if you see a message like this inside Terminal, “Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName“, you can fix this by executing the following command. It will open Gedit (text editor).

gksu gedit /etc/apache2/conf.d/fqdn

4. When Gedit opens, type “ServerName localhost” inside the file and click Save. Then close the file.

Installing php5

1. Inside Terminal, execute the following command:

sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

2. When setup is complete, you have to restart Apache so that php5 will work on Apache. Execute the following command in Terminal:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

3. You can now test to see if php5 works with Apache. To do this you can create a new php file inside your /var/www/ folder. (The text in red is the filename. You can put any name.)

sudo gedit /var/www/nass.php

4. The command above will open Gedit. Just type in the following php code, save and close the file:

<? phpInfo(); ?>

5. Now point your browser to “http://localhost/nass.php” and see if you can see the text “yoo hooo!” and a lot of information about your php5 installation. If you see that, it means your have successfully installed php5.

Installing MySQL

1. Inside Terminal, execute the following command:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql

2. Towards the end of the installation you will be prompted to set your root or admin password (see pic below)

Installing phpMyAdmin

1. Inside Terminal, execute the following command:

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

2 During the installation you will be asked to select the webserver that would be used to run phpMyAdmin. Select Apache2 (see pic below).

3. After the installation is over execute the following command to copy the phpmyadmin folder into the /var/www/ directory. (By default it is installed in /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ directory.)

sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /var/www/phpmyadmin

4. Now you can go to the phpMyAdmin login page by pointing your browser to: http://localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php

The username for MySQL and phpMyAdmin is “root”. The password will be what you set in step 2 (under installing MySQL).

That’s it! Now you’ve successfully installed Apache 2 webserver, php5, MySQL and phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu.

UPDATE (28-Jan-09)

(how can you install apache and php ubuntu apt-get install apache)