This has been plaguing me for years and I finally figured it out. Thanks
to eleperte who created
ssh-xdg-open, I was finally
able to see what to do. Ssh-xdg-open didn’t work for me, but there was
enough information available for me to figure out the missing pieces.
Forget about gconftool and you don’t need ssh-xdg-open. If all you
want is working ssh://protocol links, then just use xdg-mime to set the
default application for handling ssh protocol links and create an
application handler with the same name as that application.
xdg-mime default ssh.desktop x-scheme-handler/ssh
cat << EOF > ~/.local/share/applications/ssh.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=SSH Launcher
Exec=bash -c '(URL="%U" HOST="\${URL:6}"; ssh \$HOST); bash'
Terminal=true
Type=Application
Icon=utilities-terminal
EOF
All this does is launch bash, parse the host from the URL and executes
ssh. When ssh exits, it executes bash again so the window stays open. I
wrote it this way because you can’t count on everything to work all the
time and if you don’t keep the window open, the error messages will
vanish into the ether and your sanity with them.
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The nginx build in the official
ubuntu package repository is somewhat out-of-date, so I built my own
package from source using
0.7.59. I’m
going to provide it here in case anyone else would like it. One of the
new features I like is the
try_files
directive. Here’s an example of what I’m doing using 0.6.35, the full
post is here
http://lithostech.com/lighten-apaches-load-nginx:
location / {
root /var/www/fresnobeehive.com;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
if (-f $document_root/beehive$uri) {
rewrite (.*) /beehive$1 break;
}
if (-f $request_filename) {
break;
}
if (-f $request_filename/index.html) {
rewrite (.*) $1/index.html break;
}
if (-f $document_root/beehive$uri/index.html) {
rewrite (.*) /beehive$1/index.html break;
}
if (!-f $request_filename) {
proxy_pass http://fresnobeehive.com:8080;
break;
}
}
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Since 2008, Debian has had a movabletype-opensource
package
available in the
repository.
That’s good news for people who like to make short work of system
administration. Unfortunately, the package in the repository isn’t the
very latest and greatest. Even so, there are big benefits to using
aptitude to install movable type, the main one being that it
automatically installs all the various dependencies and offloads your
job (maintaining those packages) to someone else. Plus the file
locations are well-thought-out. Rather than throwing everything right
into the web root the package maintainer put the cgi files into a common
cgi-bin folder, the shared files into /usr/shared, the perl modules into
the shared perl library, and the configuration files into /etc.
Because I imagine I’ll be upgrading my install of MT from time to time,
I wrote this script so I can be even more lazy in the future, and I’ll
put it here in case anyone else wants to use it. It’s only been tested
on a brand new Ubuntu 8.10 install and the MTOS-4.23-en.zip
package.
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After upgrading to Intrepid
Ibex Alpha 5, I was presented with a familiar problem. I knew I had
dealt with this at least a half-dozen times in the past, but I never
seem to learn. It all happened when I tried to import a project I’d
started from my subversion repository into eclipse on my laptop. I began
to get very strange un-googlable Java errors that I knew I’d seen
before. Here’s two of them:
java.lang.nullpointerexception
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.eclipse.emf.ecore.util.EcoreEMap$DelegateEObjectContainmentEList
When I made the distribution upgrade, I failed to notice that my
symbolic link /etc/alternatives/java (pointed to by /usr/bin/java) had
changed. Instead of using Sun Java, I was back to using GCJ. GCJ is a
great effort, and if it could run PDT smoothly I would use it in a
heartbeat. Until then, I’m forced to use Sun Java. Don’t bother changing
the symbolic links by hand, Ubuntu has a handy tool to do that for you.
It would have been nice to have preserved my original configuration
though.
sudo update-java-alternatives --set java-6-sun
Next time I get these messages maybe I’ll remember to check which Java
I’m using.
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At about this time semi-annually, I can no longer hold myself back from
upgrading to the next version of Ubuntu; and usually I am quite sorry I
did just because of the nature of alpha software. The transition from
edgy to feisty, feisty to gutsy, and from gutsy to hardy was a little
painful at the alpha stage because the new network-manager applet was in
its early stages. Each of those upgrades caused problems with my
internet activity which made it difficult to access the internet and
hence report bugs.
This time around my wireless internet connections are stable and we’re
still only in alpha 4, plus the automated bug reporting system is much
better tuned. We’re starting to see a much more mature product emerge
after all this time. Looking at the upcoming
features, you’ll see
things like “encrypted private directories”, “3g support”, and a new
“guest account”.
At first I was a little disappointed to see these features because
unlike previous versions,
they seemed small in comparison. But now I feel that Ubuntu has climbed
to a kind of development plateau where all the bare necessities of a
truly excellent operating system are in place and working well. I’m
truly proud to be a member of the Ubuntu community and I welcome the
upcoming “small” features as a sign of our community’s excellence.
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