Migrating from Bugzilla to Redmine
on Oct 4, 2009 in Redmine It has been a while since I started evaluating Redmine and later started using as well. Earlier we were using Bugzilla for issue tracking, which contains good amount of data (current and historical as well). This data can't be left behind just for th...

403 Forbidden with wget
on Sep 22, 2009 in Http Linux We have few shell scripts, which access some HTTP URLs using wget as part of some task. wget failed to access some of the URLs with error message like below- Resolving repo1.maven.org... 38.97.124.18 Connecting to repo1.maven.org|38.97.124.18|:80...

Few more notes about Redmine installation
on Sep 6, 2009 in Linux Redmine This is in continuation to earlier post Getting started with Redmine where I jotted down my experience about installation of Redmine and other required packages. When I attempted to install Redmine in another machine with slightly different configura...

Redmine with Subversion 1.6
on Aug 24, 2009 in Redmine SVN Recently I updated SVN client to 1.6.x from 1.5.x on the machine where Redmine was installed. After this change Redmine stopped fetching further revisions from SVN repositories for existing projects and for new projects it was showing following error...

Hudson: svn authentication cancelled
on Aug 14, 2009 in Hudson SVN The Hudson was building all projects without any issues since it was installed. All of a sudden yesterday my inbox was filled with failure reports, Hudson was not able to build any of the projects. Logs were having stacktrace like mentioned below- E...

Yum hangs on Fedora 11 behind proxy
on Aug 7, 2009 in Linux Yesterday I installed Fedora 11 on a new machine from a live CD. As usual I tried to update the system just after installation. This machine was behind a proxy server and http_proxy variable was configured to let yum get through proxy server. Yum han...

Updating a Linux box behind proxy server
on Aug 4, 2009 in Linux Recently I had to update a Linux (Fedora 9 to be precise) box, which was behind a proxy server. To get through the proxy server I configured relevant environment variables as described here. After executing 'sudo yum update' command system seems to b...

Getting started with Redmine
on Aug 3, 2009 in Linux Redmine Apache For sometime I was looking for a project management software, which can provide an integrated view of most of the project related artifacts/activities. Redmine was the most impressive tool, I came across. It has issue tracking, wiki, forum, documents...

Managing Maven repository with Artifactory
on Jul 17, 2009 in Maven Artifactory It is close to one year, since we started using Maven as build tool for new projects. Overall experience with Maven has been very good. We are managing a simple disk based directory structure, which is served by Apache as local Maven repository. All...

Copy, move and delete files using Java
on Jun 12, 2009 in Java DeleteDeleting files in Java is fairly simple, just one method call-   new File("file path").delete();Only caveat here is that 'non-empty' directories can not be deleted. Of course you will need to have write permission (required for all write oper...