October 2011 – SleePy Code

Converting part of a svn repository to git

Published by Jeremy on October 27, 2011

In moving my projects over to git, I stumbled across a troublesome issue. In one of my projects existed a folder along side trunk, tags and branches that had stuff I needed to be converted. However I wanted to convert these as individual git repositories. So, after reading “git –help svn clone” and finding nothing …

Auto updating git repositories

Published by Jeremy on October 26, 2011

I have my git repos cloned on my site. In order to keep my git viewer up to date, I need those clones to continue to be up to date. Thankfully, there is a simple way to do this. git does have a –git-dir=/path, However this does not appear to work. You still need to …

Postfix with ubuntu 11.10

Published by Jeremy on October 15, 2011

In addition to my Dovecot issues, postfix as well had failed and I wasn’t able to send emails. However, getting them was more important at that point. After some trials, I found I needed to add this to my main.cf smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth Which has resolved postfix from not working. Hopefully I …

Dovecot with ubuntu 11.10

Published by Jeremy on October 15, 2011

Just recently updated my vps to ubuntu 11.10, this went mostly smooth. However, I had some issues with dovecot. I could not get it to start. It seems that the configuration guide I followed to setup dovecot broke due to outdated settings. However thanks to a wiki guide from dovecot, I was able to convert …