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I custom compiled PHP in order to get the daemons running. Apparently PHP5 has the “pcntl” functions disabled by default and I had to compile with –enable-pcntl, with those functions enabled the daemons ran without error.

Also, I modified the script for compiling PHP5 from the DreamHost wiki, normally found here:

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Installing_PHP5

I’ve modified it so that it will compile a few PECL extensions into the binary statically and I didn’t have to go through the hassle of build a phpize that would work with the non-root user allowed me on the DreamHost environment. So I added memcache and mailparse to the binary and they are both working smoothly.

As mentioned earlier I was trying to get memcache to work on the PS and I am glad to report that I have gotten it working. Currently it’s setup to use a max of 512MB worth of memory and seems to be running nicely.

CPU   MEM%   COMMAND

0.0  1.4   0:00.11 ./memcached -d -m 512 -l 66.33.199.189 -p 11211

All in all – http://www.theserandomwords.com/ is coming along smoothly.

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So apparently laconica fails to remote subscribe on various hosts – not sure if it is happening everywhere (I doubt it) but in any case DreamHost and BlueHost installs seem to be affected on version 0.7.3. Not so much fun!

http://laconi.ca/trac/ticket/1408

I’m investing some time into getting this fixed mostly because this type of problem (an issue on a core feature) really really bugs me. I think I’ve gotten close but no luck yet – any devs reading? Wanna get your hands dirty!? I’m pretty sure the issue is related to the actions/remotesubscribe.php and/or the extlib/OAuth.php files.

Beyond that I have some good news! Since I’m on a DreamHost PS I was able to spend some time in getting two things setup for use with my laconica installs.

Sphinx and the OpenFire XMPP Server are both working smoothly and integrated into Laconica. Memcache is next on my list and maybe a plugin that will allow users to register OpenFire accounts when they signup with the laconica instance! Nice, no?

Finally, I really am not enjoying the current installer – I think I’ll streamline my current class and convert it to a much simpler/cleaner version and submit it as a replacement, with any luck we’ll be getting clean web-based installs soon, one way or another!

Anyhow I need some sleep. Night… or ummm Morning!

JJ