Category Archives: Unix

The Fix for those Silly FreeBSD PHP Ports PHP_AUTOCONF Errors

If you’ve also been running into those PHP_AUTOCONF errors when trying to build php modules on FreeBSD, then you’ll be interested in this. The following two commands fixed the problem for me:
ln -s /usr/local/bin/autoheader-2.59 /usr/local/bin/autoheader259
ln -s /usr/local/bin/autoconf-2.59 /usr/local/bin/autoconf259
The error message I was getting is as follows:
Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the [...]

How to Backup your Gmail or Google Apps Account Daily

This howto provides a simple process for painlessly keeping a backup of all your Gmail or Google Apps emails for a single account.

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