Jonas Genannt

In the past I had some trouble to manage my RSS feeds.

I used Thunderbird for reading my email than the RSS feeds begun to grow up and I used Thunderbird to read my feeds, but it is the wrong program for it. To slow and to big, eats memory.

Today I started my search for an news reader! - I found Liferea.

A small and fast - written in GTK - newsreader. Now I'm happy with the feeds.

My project is neaerly complete! - Web based managment for eMailServers.

My eMailServer framework based on Courier/Postfix/Maildrop/MySQL has got four usergroups:

1.) normal eMailaccount

• change there own password


• create/modify/delete autoresponder

2.) admin for one or more domains

• can do the same like a normal eMailaccount


• create/modify/delete eMailaddresses


• create/modify/delete Forwardings


• create/modify/delete CatchAll Address

3.) superadmin

• can do the same like the admin


• create/modify/delete domains

4.) superadmin manager

• can do the same like the superadmin


• create/modify/delete superadmins

All this actions can be done with the webinterface!

You can find some screenshots here.

Sorry all screenshots in german, but it based on Smarty so you can make your own template.

The Webinterface depends on php4, php4-mysql, php4-cli, mysql-server,smarty, php4-pear and some extra Pear Modules.

Git the (new) revision control systen used by the Linux kernel is very nice, if you know how to use it.

Here are some hints for you/me:

Downloads the git archive to your local directory linux-2.6.16.x:
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git linux-2.6.16.x

Updates your git archive with the servers archive:
git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git

Lists the available Tags in the Branch:
ls -la .git/refs/tags/

Creates an diff between to Tags:
git diff v2.6.16.24..v2.6.16.25

Devolo dLAN USB drivers for the devolo network over power module.

If you try to compile the version 2.0 on an higher kernel than 2.6.13 you get the following error:

make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.18'
CC [M] /home/jonas/dLAN-linux-package-2.0/driver/devolo_usb.o
/home/jonas/dLAN-linux-package-2.0/driver/devolo_usb.c: In function `devolo_tx_timeout':
/home/jonas/dLAN-linux-package-2.0/driver/devolo_usb.c:205: error: `URB_ASYNC_UNLINK' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/jonas/dLAN-linux-package-2.0/driver/devolo_usb.c:205: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/home/jonas/dLAN-linux-package-2.0/driver/devolo_usb.c:205: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[3]: [/home/jonas/dLAN-linux-package-2.0/driver/devolo_usb.o] Error 1
make[2]: [module /home/jonas/dLAN-linux-package-2.0/driver] Error 2

The URB_ASYNC_UNLINK symbol is removed from the kernel.

This afternoon Alan Stern submitted a patch to remove the URB_ASYNC_UNLINK
flag from the Linux kernel. Mr. Stern explained, "This flag is a relic
from an earlier, less-well-designed system. For over a year it hasn't
been used for anything other than printing warning messages."

For the complete text klick here!

So remove the lines 204 till 208 in the file driver/devolo_usb.c.

Restart the make, and the driver will now compile fine and work.