Cogitations by Brad

Sendmail’s security measures are getting in my way. I have a program that simply needs to restart sendmail as the apache user, and it’s even got the setuid bit set, but sendmail still won’t let me do it. When security becomes this extreme, we’ve got a problem.

I’ve been thoroughly disappointed with F-Spot, which comes installed with Ubuntu. I’ve tried to use it multiple times, but it doesn’t do well with large numbers of files, it forces the files to be in a directory structure by the date, and to me it’s just not intuitive. I already have my pictures sorted like I want them, and when I try to put them in f-spot, first it takes forever to get the import screen to load all the pictures, and then it doesn’t even offer the option of tagging based on the folders.

It looks as though picasa for linux is still the best photo management software. I use it for windows too, so I’m used to it anyways.

This is good information that all Linux developers should know: setuid/setgid.