Requirements: 1and1 shared plan that has ssh support

- Download pdftk deb file for debian etch (http://packages.debian.org/etch/i386/pdftk/download):

wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/pdftk/pdftk_1.40-2_i386.deb

- Extract the pdftk deb file:

ar xv pdftk_1.40-2_i386.deb

- Extract the data.tar.gz file:

tar xvzf data.tar.gz

- Download libgcj deb file for debian etc (http://packages.debian.org/etch/i386/libgcj7-0/download):

wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gcj-4.1/libgcj7-0_4.1.1-20_i386.deb

- Extract the libgcj deb file:

ar xv libgcj7-0_4.1.1-20_i386.deb

- Extract the data.tar.gz file:

tar xvzf data.tar.gz

- Create a script to link libgcj for pdftk (use nano or vi):

#!/bin/bash

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" usr/bin/pdftk $*

- Chmod the pdftk script so it can run:

chmod 755 pdftk

Now you can run pdftk from your main directory and process files from php or cronjobs.

421 invalid sender domain, possibly misconfigured

I tested at http://www.wormly.com/test_smtp_server (which is a great site btw) to get test the error.

So I sent an email to 1and1 support to see if they could help. This was the very speedy response:

The circumstances you have just described is caused by a RFC-non-compliant configuration of the despatcher-domain. The MX-Server
of the domain has no registered A-record, but merely a CNAME-record this is why the e-mail is rejected by our e-mail servers.

You can find some general information about this topic here:

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2181.html

To provide the e-mail delivery as fast as possible again, we kindly advise you to inscribe the target domain of the CNAME-record as MX-record. For further information, please contact the provider of the despatcher-domain.

Looks like the 1and1 is blocking any non RFC compliant domains. In the rfc spec above it says:

10.3. MX and NS records

The domain name used as the value of a NS resource record, or part of
the value of a MX resource record must not be an alias.
…

Additional section processing does not include CNAME records, let alone the address records that may be associated with the canonical name derived from the alias.

So if you are a DNS admin or setup DNS for clients make sure to have the MX record for your domains be A records (they directly resolve to an ip) not CNAME records. So far I have had to email a couple of hosting companies related to this issue. I applaud 1and1 for locking down their email servers even more to thwart spam, but it would have been nice to have had a link or faq on their site explaining what was going on. Thus the reason for this lengthy blog post.

Some other posts on the web about this issues:

• http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9892913
• http://forums.devshed.com/dns-36/dns-cname-a-records-issues-628838.html

Useful links to test out DNS and MX records:

• http://www.wormly.com/test_smtp_server
• http://www.mxtoolbox.com/
• http://www.checkdns.net/quickcheckdomainf.aspx

• Download PECL uploadaccess to your 1&1 account
• Extract the package
  tar xvzf uploadprogress-1.0.0.tgz
• Go into the directory
  cd uploadprogress-1.0.0
• Run phpize5
  phpize5
• Change php-config to php-config5 in configure script
  sed -i 's/=php-config/=php-config5/g' configure
• Change include directives in Makefile
  sed -i 's#-I/usr/local/include/php#-I/usr/include/php5#g' Makefile
• Run make and make test
  make
make test
• Make new extensions folder for new extension to go in
  mkdir ~/extensions
• Copy uploadprogress extension to new folder
  cp .libs/uploadprogress.so ~/extensions/
• Create new php.ini under your main folder (or under a single subfolder for just that application) to add new extension_dir then add this code to the file
  extension_dir=/kunden/homepages/6/d87663654/htdocs/extensions/
extension=uploadprogress.so

That should be it. You should now be able to see the “Upload progress Enabled (PECL uploadprogress)” on the admin/reports/status page in Drupal.

Links that helped me with the above info:

• http://freestylesystems.co.uk/blog/installng-pecl-uploadprogress-extension-drupal-filefield-module
• http://www.outofcontrol.ca/2008/12/16/install-custom-pear-packages-on-1and1/
• http://faq.1and1.com/scripting_languages_supported/php/14.html

This hangs on my keychain and has a button that when I press on it gives me a 6 digit number which I can then use to log into paypal.

In fact I just used it to login to paypal to help my buddy Matt get his Dad a new wii at http://www.mydadneedsawii.com/. Please check it out and donate a dollar or two.

So here are the steps to using the Paypal Security device:

1) Goto http://www.mydadneedsawii.com/
2) Click on the Donate button on the right
3) Enter an amount (ie $5) and click Update Total
4) Enter your paypal email and password
5) Then instead of logging you in you are presented with a box to enter your 6 digit security code from your Paypal FOB.

So that is it. Pretty simple and makes your paypal account alot more secure. Check out more on the paypal site.. You also get to use the same key for your eBay login!

* Ability to Search and Replace in a Project
* Auto-Indent for Common Actions Like Pasting Text
* Auto-Pairing of Brackets and Other Characters
* Clipboard History
* Column Selections and Column Typing
* Completion of Words from Current Document
* CSS-like Selectors to Pinpoint the Scope of Actions and Settings
* Declarative Language Grammars for Graceful Mixing and Hacking
* Dynamic Outline for Working With Multiple Files
* Expand Trigger Words to Code Blocks With Tab-able Placeholders
* File Tabs when Working With Projects
* Foldable Code Blocks
* Function Pop-up for Quick Overview and Navigation
* Plug-able Through Your Favorite Scripting Language
* Recordable Macros With No Programming Required
* Regular Expression Search and Replace (grep)
* Run Shell Commands from Within a Document
* Support for Darcs, Perforce, SVK, and Subversion
* Support for More Than 50 Languages
* Switch Between Files in Projects With a Minimum of Key Strokes
* Themable Syntax Highlight Colors
* Visual Bookmarks to Jump Between Places in a File
* Works As External Editor for (s)ftp Programs
* Works Together With Xcode and Can Build Xcode Projects

I was checking things out here for updates: http://live.gizmodo.com/

(65) no structural object class provided

All we had to do is change this:

objectClass: posixGroup
objectClass: top

to this:

objectClass: posixGroup
objectClass: namedObject
objectClass: top

for each group in the ldif file. Then we redid slapadd -l file.ldif and everything worked.

This is all due to the way SUSE handles LDAP groups in the rfc2307bis.schema file in openldap.

If you want to edit the MigrateGroup scripts to handle this for you just edit the migrate_group.pl file and change the lines (around line 69) from:

print $HANDLE "objectClass: posixGroup\n";
print $HANDLE "objectClass: top\n";

to:

print $HANDLE "objectClass: posixGroup\n";
print $HANDLE "objectClass: namedObject\n";
print $HANDLE "objectClass: top\n";

And that should be it. Happy ldaping!