I chose the rglob() function.

I first wrote the simple recursive glob() function rglob for php.net back in 2008.

I chose it because (according to Google Analytics) it’s the second most popular PHP function in my open source code collection, which means people are actually using it and it’s more simpler yet comprehensive than the most popular (file_post_contents).

The proof is there that you are actually using it, so now perhaps you can do something for me…

Vote for my PHP code on WestHost

Thanks!

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Nope. You get this error message:

Error: Missing Dependency: perl(URI) >= 1.17 is needed by package

It’s not a problem in CentOS, no, it’s a restriction created by cPanel to control what is installed using yum.

Here’s what you do:

• Edit your “/etc/yum.conf” file.
• Remove “perl*” from the “exclude” line.
• Run your “yum install subversion”
• Add the “perl*” back to the “exclude” line in the yum file.

That’s it! It will install as expected.

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After finally getting it successfully installed and setup I decided to have a play around with a TCL script for eggdrop.

This eggdrop script will allow you to return ticket information from Trac to an IRC channel.

However, the EggdropTicketInfoIntegration trac.tcl originally written by mvanbaak for Trac v0.10 back in 2007 had become heavily outdated.

Of course, I decided to step up to the mark and make a few improvements to the script…

# 0.1   – almost a complete rewrite
#       – removed flood control, not needed
#       – removed curl support, outdated
#       – added dcc command
#       – improved header
#       – improved channel flag check
#       – fixed regex patterns
#       – fixed spelling errors
#       – added customisation settings
#       – improved package checking
#       – improved debugging
#       – added not found error
#       – added basic authorization support
#       – fixed syntax errors

Anyway, it seems to work pretty well now and I have a few improvements I’m looking to implement in the future.

Here’s the download:

• trac.tcl

Enjoy!

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[root@coffee ~]# yum install mod_python

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror

error: no dbpath has been set

error: cannot open Packages database in /%{_dbpath}

Traceback (most recent call last):

File “/usr/bin/yum”, line 29, in ?

yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)

File “/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py”, line 309, in user_main

errcode = main(args)

File “/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py”, line 157, in main

base.getOptionsConfig(args)

File “/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py”, line 187, in getOptionsConfig

self.conf

File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 664, in <lambda>

conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(),

File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 239, in _getConfig

self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)

File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py”, line 804, in readMainConfig

yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg)

File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py”, line 877, in _getsysver

idx = ts.dbMatch(‘provides’, distroverpkg)

TypeError: rpmdb open failed

[root@coffee ~]# rm /dev/urandom

rm: remove regular file `/dev/urandom’? y

[root@coffee ~]# mknod -m 644 /dev/urandom c 1 9

Nothing else seems to work, but this does indeed seem to solve the problem.

Perhaps I’ll finally get Trac installed…

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[root@server ~]# vzctl stop 104
Container already locked

Here’s how to fix it:

• Delete the lock file

[root@server ~]# rm /vz/lock/104.lck
rm: remove regular file `/vz/lock/104.lck'? y

• Kill the checkpoint

[root@server ~]# vzctl chkpnt 104 --kill
Killing...

I also submitted this article onto the OpenVZ Wiki entitled “Container already locked“.

I did this because, there was nothing found on the OpenVZ website with regards to this before now:

Your search – site:openvz.org “Container already locked” – did not match any documents.

Hope this helps!

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This domain name has been seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations

In this example we will use the recently seized domain “torrent-finder.com”.

What “ICE” have done is changed the IP address that the domain resolved to, to one of their own.

The easiest way to see what the IP address currently is, is by using the “ping” command:

[hm2k@server~]$ ping torrent-finder.com
PING torrent-finder.com (74.81.170.110) 56(84) bytes of data.

— torrent-finder.com ping statistics —
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

We can see that “torrent-finder.com” domain currently resolves to the “74.81.170.110″ IP address.

We know this is the incorrect IP as visiting 74.81.170.110 in your browser beings up the “seized” notice.

So what’s the real IP? Here’s how you find out:

First of all you need to Whois the domain name. There are various ways you can do this, from using a program to sending raw commands to the whois server yourself. In this case we will use a whois website:

• torrent-finder.com

The Whois record should show the following details which we will find useful:

   Domain servers in listed order:
      NS51.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
      NS52.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

Now, here’s what you do to find the right IP:

[hm2k@server~]$ nslookup torrent-finder.com NS51.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Server:         NS51.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Address:        216.69.185.26#53

Name:   torrent-finder.com
Address: 208.101.51.57

So, there you have it: the real IP. Let’s just check that by visiting 208.101.51.57 in our browser.

Ah yes, that’s it, the real site pops up.

Now it’s up to you. To make life easier for yourself you could now go ahead and add these newly found details to your hosts file so you don’t have to look them up again.

It doesn’t work!?

Unfortunately, this doesn’t work for every domain as “ICE” seem to have changed some domains (eg: cartoon77.com) to have NS1.SEIZEDSERVERS.COM and NS2.SEIZEDSERVERS.COM as the name servers.

A little set back, however a little fishing on Google and you will soon come across the correct name servers.

[hm2k@server ~]$ nslookup cartoon77.com NS1.DNSPOD.NET
Server:         NS1.DNSPOD.NET
Address:        121.12.116.83#53

Name:   cartoon77.com
Address: 174.137.55.5

Again, that’s the real IP. However, with this one you’ll have to add it into your hosts file for this to work, which should look like this, for example:

174.137.55.5 cartoon77.com
174.137.55.5 www.cartoon77.com

Hey presto! Get to your favorite seized sites in a couple of clicks.

Update

Based on this I have now started a project that provides you with an alternative hosts file as a work around.

• Visit the deicer project

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The only issue then was that they couldn’t send email on port 25 through the Three mobile network.

The solution is to change the outgoing SMTP from port 25 to port 587.

Because I keep forgetting myself, here’s how you do it on cPanel:

You can run Exim on another port by going to the Service Manager in WebHost Manager and then enabling exim on another port and choosing the port number.

If it’s still not working, your firewall (iptables) is probably blocking it, so here’s what you need to do:

First find the iptables for port 25:

root@server [/]# iptables-save | grep port 25
-A INPUT -i venet0 -p tcp -m tcp –dport 25 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i venet0 -p tcp -m tcp –sport 25 -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -o venet0 -p tcp -m tcp –sport 25 -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -o venet0 -p tcp -m tcp –dport 25 -j ACCEPT

Once you have that, copy each line and replace 25 with 587 and enter those in, like so:

root@server[/]# iptables -A INPUT -i venet0 -p tcp -m tcp –dport 587 -j ACCEPT
root@server[/]# iptables -A INPUT -i venet0 -p tcp -m tcp –sport 587 -j ACCEPT
root@server[/]# iptables -A OUTPUT -o venet0 -p tcp -m tcp –sport 587 -j ACCEPT
root@server[/]# iptables -A OUTPUT -o venet0 -p tcp -m tcp –dport 587 -j ACCEPT

Finally, you should check it works by using telnet from another machine:

[user@server2~]$ telnet mail.server.example.com 587
Trying 1.2.3.4…
Connected to mail.server.example.com (1.2.3.4).
Escape character is ‘^]’.
220-server.example.com ESMTP Exim 4.69 #1 Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:54:07 +0000
220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited,
220 and/or bulk e-mail.

If you see a message similar to the above it has worked, so now you can save iptables and restart the service:

• iptables-save
• service iptables restart

Done!

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Copy of your business license via PDF/JPG scanned (preferred) and emailed or faxed

We went on to explain that we don’t have a business license, they clearly didn’t understand and they proclaimed:

Most cities and many counties do require businesses — even tiny home-based sole proprietorship — to register with them and pay at least a minimum tax. In return, your business will receive a business license or tax registration certificate. Even if they do not require you to have one in the UK, we do. We must have something on files stating something along the lines that you are allowed to conduct business in your country.

I explained that in the UK there is no such thing as a business license, that is why there is no requirement.

I also stated that:

• We are registered with HMRC to pay our tax, but they do not provide a license, certificate or otherwise. Just a tax return form, which you fill out and return every year.
• We do not have a “Certificate of Incorporation” as a business is not a corporation.
• We do not have a “local business office”, we have a Chambers of Commerce, who, if contacted, will say same thing.

To which they replied:

To clarify, you are telling me there is absolutely nothing you can show us to prove that you are a registered business or allowed to conduct business in the UK?

…

There must be something from your government you can provide that will show us you are a business.

I went on to explain that our government provides no method to register with them as a business and that in the UK you become a business as soon as you begin trading as a business. Of course, we are registered with the government for tax, but they only provide the tax return form.

To which they replied:

Thank you for your reply. After reviewing your detailed information and further investigation we found the information you provided is correct, and you do not need a business license.

So, that’s right folks: You don’t need a business license to run a business in the UK.

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It’s not so easy because you have to convert from miles per gallon to pence per liter, not only that but it’s an imperial gallon.

Surely there’s a calculator out there that could do this for me to save me having to remember how to work it out.

There wasn’t, but I had an idea.

Recently I’ve been playing with WolframAlpha, however, I’ve found it has some garbage in garbage out issues. That is, most of the time it thinks what you’re putting in is garbage so it outputs garbage.

I soon discovered that there was a pattern to how you have to enter the calculation to get it to return the result you want.

Once I’d figured out the right instruction I discovered their “widgets”.

This lets you make a “widget” which makes it easy to enter the details to work out the calculations. This way the instruction is always the same.

You can also put the widget on your website or blog.

So here it is:

• Find out more

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TinySong allows you to share music using a short URL using Grooveshark.

I have created a very simple script that connects to the TinySong API.

The TinySong TCL script for Eggdrop allows you to search for a track using tinysong.com and return the artist, title, album and url.

It works as follows:

> .song Midnight Juggernauts – Nine Lives
<Bot> HM2K, * TinySong: Midnight Juggernauts – Nine Lives [Dystopia] <http://tinysong.com/uAb8>

• Download tinysong.tcl

Enjoy!

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