Posts tagged Ubuntu

I'm looking for an IRC bot, mostly to provide logs of IRC conversations. I want and extensible one that is written in Python, so that I can add extra features (e.g. announcements of subversion commits). I want one that is in mature, usable, and available in Debian. apt-cache search python irc bot gives me two answers: libsoap-lite-perl (wha..?) supybot Looks like I'll be investigating supybot. It appears to have a lot of features that I'm not interested in.

Mailman is a wonderful mailing list manager, but when you have thousands of spam messages sitting in the moderation queue, it's web interface is not enough. The messages live as Python pickles on the file system, in the mailman data directory. The file name pattern is heldmsg-listname-number.pck. Newer versions of Mailman1 come with a script discard that takes a list of path names on the command line and discards them all.

The most annoying subversion error message: $ svn up ... svn: Won't delete locally modified directory 'foo/bar' svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files This happens when a subdirectory of 'foo/bar' is removed from the upstream repository, and subversion tries and fails to remove ir locally -- fails because it finds some some files that are listed in svn:ignore (e.g. editor backup files, compiled object files, compiled Python modules).

If you want to set up a shared Subversion repository, accessible over SSH, you need to make the following three directories group-writeable (and setgid): /path/to/svn/repository/db /path/to/svn/repository/locks /path/to/svn/repository/dav (not sure about this, it's likely that it is not necessary if you only want SSH access) You also need to make sure that all user accounts that access the repository have the correct umask (002 instead of the default 022).