Exim with letsencrypt certbot on Ubuntu 20

Run these commands to install cert snap install core snap refresh core snap install –classic certbot ln -s /snap/bin/certbot /usr/bin/certbot snap set certbot trust-plugin-with-root=ok # make sure firewall port 80 is unblocked and no other software is running on port 80 already certbot certonly –standalone # verify certbot timer exists to renew certificate systemctl list-timers […]

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Tomcat start/stop script

You could just link to catalina.sh and get the basic stop/start functionality working but it has some drawbacks: Sometimes tomcat doesn’t stop gracefully and you have to reach for ps, grep and kill You have to sometimes pass in some configuration options to Tomcat to enable JMX, increase the max memory it can use, etc. […]

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UW imapd error

I was getting the following error in my log file and I couldn’t connect to my imap server using Thunderbird. Mar 1 13:35:19 ltps imapd[12525]: imap service init from 192.168.1.42 Mar 1 13:35:19 ltps imapd[12525]: Unable to accept SSL connection, host=dave [192.168.1.42] Mar 1 13:35:19 ltps imapd[12525]: SSL error status: error:1408F10B:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:wrong version number It […]

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Converting From SugarCRM to SalesForce

I recently had to complete a migration from SugarCRM to SalesForce and I wanted to share some of my experience here in hopes that you’ll find it useful. These instructions are pretty technical. If you have trouble understanding them then you’re not the right person for the task. Find someone that has experience working with […]

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