OT: Personal Diary/Journal Software

[Paul Lemmons]

Ali, I sent you the Java files direct to your email to keep the traffic
down on the list.

The install is really quite simple:

There are two files:

[downloads]$ ls -lrt
-rw-rw-r--   1 tspdlp tspdlp    840971 Dec 30 16:22 securediary-0.3.0a.tar.bz2
-rw-rw-r--   1 tspdlp tspdlp     12195 Dec 30 16:29 jce_policy-1_4_2.zip
[tspdlp at lemix downloads]$ 

Expand the files:

[downloads]$ tar -jxvf securediary-0.3.0a.tar.bz2
[downloads]$ unzip jce_policy-1_4_2.zip
[downloads]$ ls -lrt
drwxr-xr-x   2 tspdlp tspdlp      4096 Jun 16  2003 jce
drwxrwxr-x   3 tspdlp tspdlp      4096 Dec 30 16:24 JDiary
-rw-rw-r--   1 tspdlp tspdlp    840971 Dec 30 16:22 securediary-0.3.0a.tar.bz2
-rw-rw-r--   1 tspdlp tspdlp     12195 Dec 30 16:29 jce_policy-1_4_2.zip
[downloads]$ 

I moved JDiary out of my working download directory to my home directory. It could really be placed anywhere.

[downloads]$ mv JDiary ~/

Figure out where to put your java security modules:

[downloads]$ which java

/opt/oracle/product/10.2.0/jre/1.4.2/bin/java

I have Oracle installed so I use it's JRE by default. It has not caused me any problems so 
I have not done anything to use the Java that comes with FC4. Anyway, the path to the directory to be updated
for me was: /opt/oracle/product/10.2.0/jre/1.4.2/lib/security

[downloads]$ cd /opt/oracle/product/10.2.0/jre/1.4.2/lib/security
[security]$  ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle dba  30337 Apr  6  2005 cacerts
-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle dba   2223 Apr  6  2005 java.policy
-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle dba   6871 Apr  6  2005 java.security
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root   root  4368 Dec 30 16:38 local_policy.jar
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root   root  4355 Dec 30 16:38 US_export_policy.jar

I always keep original files...

[security]$  mv local_policy.jar local_policy.jar.old
[security]$  mv US_export_policy.jar US_export_policy.jar.old

Copy the updates:

[security]$  cp ~/downloads/jce/*.jar .
[security]$  ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle dba  30337 Apr  6  2005 cacerts
-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle dba   2223 Apr  6  2005 java.policy
-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle dba   6871 Apr  6  2005 java.security
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root   root  4368 Dec 30 16:38 local_policy.jar
-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle dba   2910 Apr  6  2005 local_policy.jar.old
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root   root  4355 Dec 30 16:38 US_export_policy.jar
-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle dba   2429 Apr  6  2005 US_export_policy.jar.old

Now try to run the program:

[security]$  cd ~/JDiary
[security]$  ./runit&

After I saw it work via command line I created a desktop Icon for it so that now I just double click on it 
to bring the program up.

I hope this helps. The program is extremely basic and could use some some serious aesthetic improvements but it 
does work. I use it to keep simple notes on a day to day bases. It encrypts the data, which was the most important 
to me because I keep both personal and personnel information in it. 

If you are not interested in the encryption I found two other programs that worked: They are "cire" "Daily Journal".
Between the two "Daily Journal" is the one I would use if I were looking for a GUI. The "cire" program will work
in console mode.


Hope this helps.


-Paul

On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 23:37 +0200, Ali Helmy wrote:
> Hey Paul,
> 
> I'm quite interested in the diary software as well, so I'm a bit new
> to Linux, so I need to ask you two favours if you can please:
> 
> A) I downloaded the .tar.bz2 file, now can you please walk me through
> installing it? 
> B) The files I need from Java need a sign-in, so can you send them to
> me, because I dont have a sign-in...
> 
> Thanks
>