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MediaWiki installation at Neela Nurseries, 2017 June

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

Getting started - this is MediaWiki's default main page section

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list
• Localise MediaWiki for your language
• Learn how to combat spam on your wiki

^ Linux Distributions for Download

• Ubuntu Linux supported releases, 32-bit and 64-bit
• Debian Linux releases description and list
  • Debian missing firmware, e100/d102e_ucode.bin
  • dpkg cheat sheet
• Arch Linux download

^ Linux Administration

• Debian upgrade from wheezy to jessie

^ Linux User Space Configuration

To configure xserver-xorg

Snippet from work on getting xserver-xorg to recognize a 1920x1080 native resolution monitor, ViewSonic VX2250 Series monitor . . .

user@localhost:~$ gtf 1920 1080 60

  # 1920x1080 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 67.08 kHz; pclk: 172.80 MHz
  Modeline "1920x1080_60.00"  172.80  1920 2040 2248 2576  1080 1081 1084 1118  -HSync +Vsync

user@localhost:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 8.9 (jessie)
Release:        8.9
Codename:       jessie

user@localhost:~$

Looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log there appear to be two or more issues keeping xserver-xorg framework from fully recognizing the resolutions of the attached monitor:

user@localhost:/var/log$ grep -n 'LoadModule: ' Xorg.0.log
47:[    27.193] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
58:[    27.669] (II) LoadModule: "ati"
64:[    27.719] (II) LoadModule: "radeon"
70:[    27.795] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
76:[    27.832] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
82:[    27.842] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
346:[    27.938] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
354:[    27.946] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
368:[    27.946] (II) LoadModule: "vbe"
374:[    27.994] (II) LoadModule: "int10"
396:[    28.200] (II) LoadModule: "ddc"
2651:[    28.611] (II) LoadModule: "shadow"
2657:[    28.621] (II) LoadModule: "fb"
2664:[    28.630] (II) LoadModule: "int10"
2694:[    31.327] (II) LoadModule: "evdev"

user@localhost:/var/log$ grep -n UnloadModule Xorg.0.log
361:[    27.946] (II) UnloadModule: "radeon"
363:[    27.946] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
365:[    27.946] (II) UnloadModule: "fbdev"

user@localhost:/var/log$ grep -n radeon Xorg.0.log
64:[    27.719] (II) LoadModule: "radeon"
65:[    27.720] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
66:[    27.795] (II) Module radeon: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
361:[    27.946] (II) UnloadModule: "radeon"

user@localhost:/var/log$

References for Linux user-space configuration issues:

• Gentoo forum post, kernel may be missing something when /dev/dri/card0 not found

^ Shell scripting

A well-written and comprehensive guide to bash shell scripting:

• Advanced Bash Shell Scripting Guide

Simple bash script to back up MYSQL databases to local .sql file, in following figure. Ted noting that script variables are not consistently capitalized, would be better form to capitalize all or none of them. Ted also noting that script could read database user passphrase from a file, a file which could be root-only readable and located in a place different from the script, which is likely to be run as a cron job.

Figure x - shell script to dump MYSQL databases, first draft script:

#!/bin/bash


DATABASE_LIST="information_schema mysql phpmyadmin wikidb database_1 database_2 database_3 ..."

SERVER_NAME="example_database_server"

user="root"
pass_phrase_for_mysql="database-passphrase"
options_extra="--skip-lock-tables"


response="n"

mode_interactive="n"



echo "shell script starting,"



for database in ${DATABASE_LIST}; 
do echo "backing up $SERVER_NAME database $database . . .";

#    command="mysqldump --databases $database -u$user -p$pass_phrase_for_mysql $options_extra >> au-database-back-up--${database}.sql"
    command="mysqldump --databases $database -u$user -p$pass_phrase_for_mysql $options_extra"
    redirect="au-database-back-up--${database}.sql"

    if [ $mode_interactive = 'y' ]; then

        echo "build command '$command' and database back-up filename'$redirect',"
        echo "full command will be '$command' > '$redirect',"
        echo "trying running this command and redirect? [y/N/q]  yes, no, 'q' to quit"

        read response
        if [ $response = 'Y' -o $response = 'y' ]; then
            ${command} > $redirect
        elif [ $response = 'N' -o $response = 'n' ]; then
            echo "skipping present command . . ."
        elif [ $response = 'Q' -o $response = 'q' ]; then
            echo "stopping script '$0' and exiting."
            break
        fi
        echo

    else

        echo "$0:  backing up database '$database' to file '$redirect' . . ."
        ${command} > $redirect
        ls -l $redirect

    fi

done


echo "done."

exit 0

^ How To Use Git

Wanting to understand and use git better, here are some on-line references to git version control. Also, Ted searching for a git reference posted by a female author, can't remember name but reference well-written with lots of commands and concise explanations of each command. First URL reference may be that page, now 2017-10-02 not sure of the author's name . . .

Basic git commands:

• Most useful git commands - Orga.cat
• Basic git commands by Micheal Herman

Git references found while answering specific git task questions:

• Create new git repository by Karl Broman
• Add existing project to Github
• rename a file under Git version control
• git-diff

^ Drupal Content Management

• Introduction to Drupal Web Content Management Framework
  • What is Drupal?
  • Drupal licensing
  • History of Drupal project

• Drupal 8 documentation . . . there are also mentioned Drupal major releases 6 and 7 - TMH
  • What you will learn in the Drupal book, and Drupal modules Views, Flag, Rules, Page manager/Panel

• Drupal 8 User Guide
  • Drupal 8 software requirements
  • more general Drupal software packages requirements

2017-08-23

• Nodes represent content in Drupal context
  • Views
  • Flag
  • Rules . . . see 2017-09-01 entry for more rules document links, below.
  • Page manager

2017-08-23 - Drupal installation . . .

• Install Drupal 8
  • Before installing
  • step 1 - get the code
  • step 2 - install PHP dependencies with composer
  • step 3 - create a database for Drupal code and scripts
  • step 4 - configure Drupal your installation
    • Drupal multi-site configuration
  • step 5 - run the installer
    • Drupal User Guide 'Running the Installer'
      • how to relocate Drupal config outside document root

2017-08-24

• After stepping through install script . . .
  • How to configure clean URLs with apache2

2017-08-25

• Trusted Host security settings array in Drupal 8
• Adding and amending front page content

2017-08-30
Ted looking for information on how Drupal can aid setting up dynamic, site navigation menus:

• Adding menu items to your site map
• Adding menu items to your site map, latest major 2017 Drupal release

2017-09-01

• an alternate Drupal Rules documentation page
  • D Rules - Introduction
  • D Rules - Site Builder Documentation
  • D Rules - Developer Documentation
  • D Rules - Contributed Features and Examples
  • D Rules - Project Resources
  • D Rules - Drupal 6, Rules 1.x

^ Composer, a dependency manager of PHP

• How to install composer globally
• Composer "lock the lock file"

^ Geography and Science

• Sri Lanka
• NASA eclipse page
• Eclipses to come to South Africa, beyond 2017

• Eagle Creek fire perimeter
• NWCC

• Washingtonia filifera in Moapa and American southwest

^ Music and Culture

• A R Rhaman - cantante, compositor y mas
  • leitmotif defined - a short musical phrase . . .
• liricos de Mann Chandra
• liricos y revista de Mann Chandra por Aman Sharma

^ Outdoors

• NW Forest Pass
• South Sister Wilderness, Moraine Lake