Connecting to MySQL 4.1 with Old Libraries

If you need to connect to a MySQL 4.1 Database using an old mysql library, you need to change the password for the user account that you want to connect with, so that it uses an old password. The new version of the database uses a different password algorithm which is much longer then the old version, which causes problems with the old library. To fix this you have to set the user password with the Old_password( ) function.

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Setting up Postfix (TLS) / Courier-IMAP (SSL) / MySQL / Postfixadmin

This is an install guide for setting up a secure mail server using Postfix, Courier-IMAP, MySQL, and Postfixadmin on Debian Woody. Before we begin here are a few notes regarding how things are handled: Virtual domains - All domains including the local domain are handled as virtual domains. This allows a central location for all mail. All interactions with the server are authenticated and encrypted using libsasl2 and TLS/SSL (Please see the packages section for what to install) 1.

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Integrating Apache 2.0.x and Tomcat 5.0.x with mod_jk on Mandrake Linux 10

When it comes to Linux, nothing comes easy for me, but I get it done. Tonight I tried to install the connector between Apache and Tomcat. I had basic instructions for that, and he even e-mailed me the required mod_jk.so file. Unfortunately, Mandrake 10 didn’t like it and I had to manually build it from the source. What a pain, but the instruction below helped quite a bit, I just had to install “autoconf” to get it to work.

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