I left a few things unsaid in my previous post basic hostname set up, and after talking with some people about /etc/hosts, I thought a quick follow up is in order. Firstly, my preference is to use the ethernet’s ip address to tie the host name to the FQDN, but others like to use 127.0.1.1. [...]
I was helping out someone with a postfix issue, and something just clicked that will speed up diagnosing similar problems. It’s not so much a postfix problem as a hostname problem, and it’s very basic. The symptom was, mail sent to the server at domain.com was being bounced. Looking at postfix logs, postfix was trying [...]
I had a job come in last week for a linux file server to connect a few windows machines together, and a few printers. The client was exposed to a linux file server in a previous job, and wanted something similar. It was a small business, with not much money to spend, and the server [...]
One of the minor issues I had since installing ubuntu on my eee pc was I couldn’t work out how to turn the wifi off. There’s a Fn+F2 key combo that works in xandros, but it didn’t work for me in ubuntu. I tried googling for the answer and got nowhere. So, for google, to [...]
We were given a server to play with to do whatever we wanted, hosted in a US data centre. It was running RHEL 4.x, I could have worked with that, but it didn’t look like it was on a support contract, I wasn’t able to update it, anyway. I thought about trying to convert it [...]