Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category
People keep complaining about the mail server and when I go look through the log files and do various testing procedures it seems as if nothing is wrong really. Needless to say I was searching through Google and found a nice little script that will search through your mail logs and give you some detailed information in a human readable format. Seems as if there are quite a few neat little scripts on this page. Oh well, it is worth checking out if you manage any Linux mailservers.
I am trying to build a new dedicated MySQL box on a Sun x2200 server. I have been going through Operating Systems like mad. Solaris, OpenSolaris, Debian, Gentoo. Amazingly Gentoo so far has been the easiest to get everything setup and working properly. Even better everything is compiled and optimized for my hardware specifically.
I never thought it would be this difficult though. I really like my Sun hardware and love ZFS and the clustering capabilities of Solaris. Oh well, can’t win them all I guess. I am happy with Gentoo though and the performance is more than acceptable.
I am putting this up here for many reasons. I stumble across many problems daily, having a place to keep the solutions to recurring problems is probably a good idea. Not only will it help serve as my knowledge base, it can potentially help others out there trying to solve the same problem I am having.