ps -eo pid | xargs pargs -l

Enjoy!

Yesterday, the main ASF SVN code repository passed the 1 million commit mark.  Shortly thereafter one of the ASF members enquired as to how he could best grab the svn log entries for all of these commits.  As always there were a bunch of useful replies, but they were all set to take quite some time; mainly because if anyone just simply runs

svn log http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf -r1:1000000

It will not only take several hours, it will also cause high levels of load on one of the two geo-balanced SVN servers.  Also, requesting tat many log entries will likely result in your IP address being banned.

So I decided to create the log set locally on one of the SVN servers.  This is now available for download  [http://s.apache.org/1m-svnlog]  [md5] [sha]
This is a 50Mb tar/gz file.  It will uncompress to about 240Mb.   The log ‘only’ contains the log entries from 1 -> 1,000,000  - if you want the rest you can run:

    svn log http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf -r1000001:HEAD

This will give you all the log entries from 1M+1 to current

So after installing cyrus-sasl, postfix and dovecot all I needed to do was:

Edit /etc/postfix/main.cf  – At the end of your configuration add:

smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,permit_sasl_authenticated,reject_unauth_destination
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth

Don’t forget that postfix by default runs in it’s own chroot jail, so the smptd_sasl_path above is relative to the postfix root. So in my case on CentOS 5 that equates to “/var/spool/postfix/private/auth”

Now go on and edit your /etc/dovecot.conf file.  Find the lines

userdb passwd {
}

Then add this immediately below it

socket listen {
client {
path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode = 0660
user = postfix
group = postfix
}
}

Now all you need to do is restart postfix, dovecot and (re)start saslauthd

/etc/init.d/postfix restart
/etc/init.d/dovecot restart
/etc/init.d/saslauthd restart

If you now telnet to your mail server on port 25, and use EHLO you should be able to see the following

ehlo me
250-your.server.domain.com
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250 DSN

My next posting will include details on how to extend this to include the use of TLS

So in the near future we will start using LDAP for authentication.  This will include access to shell accounts, and Subversion.  However additional features that will make use of authorisation extensions will follow shortly afterwards.  We will use LDAP as the central, single sign on, access control centre.

LDAP will be used in the long term to manage access to all public facing services.  Including, Subversion, shell account, JIRA, Bugzilla etc

One thing I discovered over the course of deploying and testing OpenLDAP, is that their documentation sucks. It is not very clear, or contain anywhere near enough detail or examples.

So right now I am enjoying a well earned beer.  Cheers!!

So cross your fingers.

As you can see from the image below I am getting bloody good battery life times.  Now granted this is with the screen brightness ~33% – Still this is the average time I have been getting first thing in the morning whilst on the train.  When I get to the office and up the brightness, move files around etc the lifetime drops to ~5 hours.  But that still in itself is impressive. Isn’t it?

Yay! > 9hrs on the new toy

So far it has been awesome.  I am currently in the throws of getting my hands on a bunch of software to allow me to do what I would normally be able to do on any of my PC’s.  I have found a few good apps, and I continue to find more.  But if you have any must-have apps, then please to tell.

I have been craving a Mac for quite some time now, and it has taken a very long time to be able to justify the cost.  But needless to say now that I have it I am in love.  It has been rebooted a total of 3 times since I first turned it on.  These were all for updates.

So far I have:

• OpenOffice
• iLife
• TextMate
• iTerm (not sure if prefer this to terminal.app or not, yet)
• Lock Desktop
• PGP
  other misc stuff

So far most folks have been asking me about the battery life, does it really last 8 hours.  So far, no. But it has lasted just shy of 7 hours 2 or 3 times already.   This is with the screen on just about 50-60% brightness and no use of the DVD drive etc.  How incredible is that?  One full working day near as damn it on one full charge.

So, moving on I intend to get rid of all my PCs at home, and eventually have just this MackBook and one PowerMac, or iMac depending on if we want to have more than one screen.

In part my hand has been forced, after offering to host a website for my brother in law (alias overlap). So aspart of the reorganization I decided to take a look into qmail. The fact that we use it within the ASF too, means that I will hopefully be better able to help with that should the need arise.

Here’s hoping all goes well.

All my mail goes via a 3rd party filtering system (for now) so I won’t lose any mail it might just mean a slightly longer delay than usual.

That aside the wife and I bought some new flooring for almost all of the ground floor of our house this weekend. It’ll be installed whilst I am at ApacheCon.

Decorating the hallway and W.C. Has begin in preperation for the new floor being laid.

• Around me
• Twitterific
• Tube deluxe
• TV Plus (remote record for sky)
• WordPress (this was written using this)
• TouchTerm
•. Facebook
• Flixter (Local cinema)
• Beer deluxe (international beer list)

I’m sure many more will follow as time goes on.