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Fix Postfix!
Nein, dieses Buch habe ich nicht zu Weihnachten geschenkt gekriegt – es sei denn, man zählt Geschenke, die man sich selbst macht, dazu… Nichtsdestotrotz ist “Das Postfix Buch” eine lohnende Investition. Ich habe nämlich jetzt endlich verstanden, wie dieses Stück Software funktioniert und fühle mich endlich in der Lage, meinen lokalen Mailserver (dessen Anti-Viren / [...]
Extending the logical var-volume
On my server, the /var-volume (in fact, the logical device /dev/vgroup/var, part of my LVM), is running slowly out of space. Therefore, I decided to extend it by 5 GB. Fortunately, with reiserfs, you can do this while the volume is mounted – at least, this is what is said in the LVM-howto. So, here’s [...]
Local rsync mirror
I finally set up the local rsync mirror on my server – so that I don’t have to sync twice over the internet (the server syncs with the internet, the client syncs with the server). I followed the wiki-entry – there is not much to add to it, really… and it works flawlessly… If only [...]
Serious samba-problem
I just upgraded both my server and my client; now, I can’t mount the samba shares on the server any more! What basically happened first is that I just could not access them – after being inside one and doing simple stuff like “ls” (or browsing into one from a normal file dialog), the system [...]
Time not synced
Today, I found out that my server box is still running summer-time. And then, I noticed that I haven’t configured it to update itself via ntp, something I quickly did. Funny enough, ntp is already emerged, so the only thing left to do is configure /etc/conf.d/ntp-client to look like this: # /etc/conf.d/ntp-client NTPCLIENT_CMD=”ntpdate” NTPCLIENT_OPTS=”-s -b [...]
