Month: December 2010

Per my previous post, now you can join a XO Sugar chat from other clients, but to the XO, you’ll show up as ??? in the chat instead of as an “XO Buddy.”  An XML stanza will fix that. Once you go through all this and set up your login to be an “XO Buddy,”… Read more Non-XO Clients as “XO Buddies” in Sugar Chat and Network Home

By default, the chat rooms that XOs create with Sugar are not searchable.  Meaning that when you list available chat rooms in a regular client, you won’t see them and thus can’t join them. You can use Psi or Pidgin to configure the XO Chat room so everyone can see it and join it. Psi… Read more Configuring a Sugar Chat Room so other clients can see it

“This file will be destroyed in 15 minutes.  Or whatever it was I set the cron job for.” I have a user who’s rather obsessive about her security and privacy.  Which is fine, but as a server admin, I have to figure out how best to fill her requirements.  And it’s a fun challenge, too,… Read more Apache for Secret Agents

Have you ever wanted Windows and/or Internet Explorer users to feel your irritation when a site tells you it doesn’t support Linux?  Well, a few lines of php in your index page will spread the pain. Now, my server, such as it is, is in my house and I do not get much if any… Read more “This site does not support Microsoft”

We all know that cron doesn’t use most of your variables, but it was driving me crazy trying to figure out how to get a text file output with a certain column width. I used at to help me figure out what was going on. The XS 0.6 doesn’t have at installed by default, so… Read more Going Crazy over Cron!

SSH into the XS with a keypair Here’s how I did it for my Ubuntu desktop client and the XS 0.6. First, on the XS, uncomment these lines in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and sshd_config.in RSAAuthentication yes PubkeyAuthentication yes AuthorizedKeysFile    .ssh/authorized_keys Restart the ssh service service sshd restart Now generate keys on your client machine. ssh-keygen You might… Read more SSH keypair setup on the XS