Rachel’s Blog

Anyone thinking of signing up with Be Internet: be warned, it’s easier to join them than to leave.

I’m currently having a fight with them because they insist the only way you can close an account with them and stop paying them money, is by phoning a telephone number and giving lots of security information including your date of birth.

Not allowed to do it via their own “secure” account system…

Not allowed to do it in writing…

Not allowed to do it by them phoning me on the mobile phone number I’d given them X years ago…

Apparently even after the telephone line is disconnected tomorrow, they *still* won’t accept that I really, really don’t want their service any more.

This is going to be interesting!

rpm2cpio .rpm | cpio -vid (or -vt just to view contents)

Following their instructions to initialise the database, you get a complaing about /dev/null.

This is because the default postgres user is installed with a shell of /dev/null.

To change it, forget all the Unix stuff you know about administering users and do this


sudo dscl . -change /Users/postgres UserShell /dev/null /bin/sh


Or if you want to check first, check that the user exists

sudo dscl . -list /Users UniqueID


And then check the postgres user

sudo dscl . read /users/postgres


Needed to do this:


sudo locale-gen en_GB.UTF-8
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales


sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
sudo do-release-upgrade

new site…

svn propset svn:executable on