If anything you try to install says that it’ll remove packages (like glibc-common), don’t do it. You could remove a lot of core packages and end up having to reinstall Endian from scratch. Not that I would know anything about that…

First run smart config –set rpm-check-signatures=False to avoid errors about invalid keys. Then you can do
smart install http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/nano-1.2.4-1.i386.rpm
smart install http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/slocate-2.7-13.el4.8.i386.rpm
etc

You can still get stuck in dependency hell, though. Smart might be able to auto download dependencies if you add a channel, but I don’t have the time/motivation to look into that right now.

tar -czf [output-file.tar.gz] [input-directory]/
mysqldump -u [username] -p [database name] > [filename]

It’s possible to configure this yourself, though. There’s a helpful post at the OpenDNS forums that describes how to configure ddclient on an Endian to automatically update an OpenDNS account whenever your dynamic IP address changes.

Here are a few additional notes that may help:

• You don’t need to query an external website for your IP address, since the Endian box already knows it. Set ddclient.conf with “use=if, if=eth0″ (or whichever NIC is your red zone).
• It won’t work if you set “ssl=no”, so you have to leave it set to yes and install the two Perl SSL modules listed in the post.
• Endian doesn’t have an SMTP server installed, so ddclient can’t send you status e-mails. Comment out the “mail” and “mail-failure” lines to avoid errors.
• Make sure you don’t have any spaces in the OpenDNS network label or ddclient conf file.

To test if it’s working, you’ll need to get a new dynamic IP.

• Turn off your cable or dsl modem.
• Spoof the MAC address on the Endian.
  • On your PC, open a command prompt and type “ipconfig /all”. Copy the value of the Physical Address line. It will look something like 00-4D-B7-D3-5F-03.
  • Go to the Network Configuration wizard on the Endian.
  • In step 4, enter your PC’s MAC into the “Spoof MAC address with” field. Change the dashes to colons so that it looks like 00:4D:B7:D3:5F:03.
• Shut down the Endian.
• Turn the modem back on. Wait 15 seconds.
• Turn the Endian back on.

Once you’ve verified it’s working, you can remove the spoof setting by repeating the steps.

Instead of displaying the errors, you can configure PHP to log them and then use the logs for debugging. For a Linux environment, you’ll need to create a file named vhost.conf inside the domain’s conf directory, /var/www/vhosts/domain.name/conf.

<Directory /var/www/vhosts/domain.name>
  php_value error_log /var/www/vhosts/domain.name/statistics/logs/php-errors.log
  php_flag display_errors off
  php_value error_reporting 6143
  php_flag log_errors on
</Directory>

Then create the file and assign it the right permissions

  cd /var/www/vhosts/domain.name/statistics/logs/
  touch php-errors.log
  chown apache php-errors.log

And the last thing is to tell Apache to reread the updated conf file

  /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -a

#!/bin/sh
# lowerit
# convert all file names in the current directory to lower case
# only operates on plain files--does not change the name of directories
# will ask for verification before overwriting an existing file
for x in `ls`
do
	if [ ! -f $x ]; then
		continue
	fi

	lc=`echo $x  | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
	if [ $lc != $x ]; then
		mv -i $x $lc
	fi
done