I’ve always been in favor of removing the standard Sendmail install on most Linux boxes, in favor of Postfix. I’ve found it easier to use, and easier to configure. Having a simple configuration file that doesn’t need compiling is always helpful too. However, in some cases, you really don’t like to touch [...]

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How do you turn a 12 (or more) hour job into 40 minutes? Script it…

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On Sunday I wrote up a “brief” little record of my upgrade nightmare. Today, I got an email from Bill reporting his anti-spam comment plugin was broken. So I decided to check in on it. I had assumed there was an issue with the PHP build I had created after the installs. [...]

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I’ve been pretty good at keeping my server up to date. I’ve taken a general policy of “if it isn’t broke, don’t touch it”. It works well, for the most part. When it comes to servers though, security is a good idea, and that plays havoc with the previous mantra.

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It’s always been one of those items on my list to try, operating entirely at work without Microsoft Windows (r) on my laptop. Yesterday I think that possibility became all the more viable. With the move of our production servers to our corporate office, and there being no direct link to the servers, [...]

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Stumbled on an odd one today. I was adding some new hosts to our Nagios server, and while I was looking at the interface, one of the servers kept popping up an error, the error was:

PING WARNING - System call sent warnings to stderr System call sent warnings to stderr

So I checked the [...]

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I have been known to lose track of time every once in a while, but not 3 days. I just logged onto our monitoring server after noticing some oddness in time. When logging on, the server said it was the 29th of October. That was 3 days ago. So I execute [...]

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I have been curious about building “the ultimate Linux Desktop” for a while, but one of the requirements would be support for my Nikon D70s. As I shoot in RAW format, and that is usually propitiatory per camera manufacturer (Nikon is NEF), some special software is required, so I googled for “Linux Nikon RAW”, [...]

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This is more of a reference for myself because I keep forgetting it. The command last is used to pull up the login history for the active account. This is a handy little command to see if your account has been a little more active than it should have been (though any good [...]

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Last night I stumbled across a little issue I hadn’t noticed before. We’re in the process of deploying a new connection to our office for improved bandwidth, and reliability. Currently I have moved half of our servers to using the new line, and a handful are still using the old line. Last [...]

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