Monthly Archives: May 2009

Getting Groupwise to work on Ubuntu 64bit (9.04)

Just a quick post on what i did to get Groupwise up and running on Ubuntu 64bit: 1) Installed a 32bit virtual Ubuntu machine, and converted the Groupwise installer to a .deb package with “alien -c filename”. 2) Moved the … Continue reading

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Hint: “org.apache.jasper.JasperException: java.lang.NumberFormatException”

Getting the exception “org.apache.jasper.JasperException: java.lang.NumberFormatException” when developing a JavaEE-app? If you are basing yourself on data from a query, make shure that you are doing a SELECT against the table name and NOT the individual fields!

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Cron commands not working when outputting to stderr(2>&1)

The error: username@host:/home/foo> fetchmail -f /opt/rt-fetchmail/fetchmail 2>&1 /dev/null Enter password for username@/dev/null: Solution: Change the cron entry / command to the following: fetchmail -f /opt/rt-fetchmail/fetchmail > /dev/null 2>&1 This will stop -all- output from appearing.

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