Deluge 1.0.0 codenamed “Sharks Are Bulletproof” is out. It’s a complete rewrite from the ground up with a host of new features.

1. It’s now possible to run Deluge as a daemon since the core and UI have been separated.

2. The GTK UI has also been redesigned as seen in the screen shot above.

3. Deluge is now way more stable compared to the older versions.

4. New and improved queuing system.

5. Include GeoIP database for country look-ups

6. Migration to the upcoming libtorrent 0.14 release

However, before upgrading I would recommend that you complete your torrents first. This upgrade will not migrate your settings and your torrent list is not guaranteed to migrate properly too. So why take the chance right?

Read the change log or the release notes while you download Deluge 1.0.0

The folks at dropbox released the much anticipated Linux client yesterday. Currently it’s designed as a nautilus extension. Support for Konqueror should be available soon.

The nautilus extension is opensource but the dropboxd daemon which keeps the files in sync is closed source.

Packages for Ubuntu and Fedora are available for download. For other distros you’ll need to compile from source. Go to the download page. 

I managed to get dropbox working on my openSUSE 11 running KDE. It’s quite simple actually. You need to install the nautilus and nautilus-devel pakages before compiling the source,

1. install nautilus

root#> zypper in nautilus

2. install nautilus-devel

root#> zypper in nautilus-devel

3. compile the dropbox source. Make sure to be in the source folder first.

root#> ./configure

root#> make

root#> make install

4. start nautilus or the dropboxd daemon to initiate the dropbox client. 

root#> nautilus

or

root#> cd /home/[user]/.dropbox-dist/

root#> ./dropboxd

I had to work with an AIX box today which was having some issues with the mailq getting filled up frequently. The issue was not with the AIX box but the out SMTP box. Damn those spammers!!

Anyway, I had to restart the sendmail daemon on the AIX box. Walk through below,

1. Verify if sendmail is running. “ps -ef | grep sendmail“.

This should show: root 5704 1 0 11:08:42 - 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25

2. Stop sendmail. “stopsrc -s sendmail” or “kill -1 `cat /etc/senamail.pid`.

3. Verify if sendmail is running. “ps -ef | grep sendmail“.

No process should be returned.

4. Start sendmail. “startsrc -s sendmail -a “-bd -q30m”“.

-bd will start the sendmail as a SMTP mail relay router.

-q will the the interval in which the sendmail daemon will process save messages. If none is provided the daemon will default to instant processing.

5. Verify if sendmail is running. “ps -ef | grep sendmail“.

This should show: root 5704 1 0 11:30:23 - 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25