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Entries from January 2008

Turn on quotas for Ubuntu/Debian

January 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Good URL: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2139737,00.asp Check to see if quotas are enabled on the current system. Run: mount Make sure the quota software is turned on with: dpkg -l quota* If it’s not installed install with: apt-get install quota Enable quotas on the file system you want quota support on. Edit /etc/fstab and add “,usrquota” to the [...]

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Tags: Linux · Operating System

SQL Express

January 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Had to migrate a site from a remote server onto a Windows virtual server (Virtuozzo) running Plesk. The site had a database running on SQL Server 2005, but, by default Windows Plesk virtual servers only run MSDE. The database also had stored procedures, which, MSDE doesn’t support. So, needed to install SQL Express 2005. I [...]

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Tags: SQL · Windows

Testing SMTP AUTH

January 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Great link to information regarding testing SMTP AUTH: http://qmail.jms1.net/test-auth.shtml To test SMTP AUTH I did the following: [server]# perl -MMIME::Base64 -e ‘print encode_base64(“\000test\@domain.com\000testpassword”)’ AHRlc3RAZG9tYWluLmNvbQB0ZXN0cGFzc3dvcmQ= [server]# perl -MMIME::Base64 -e ‘print decode_base64(“AHRlc3RAZG9tYWluLmNvbQB0ZXN0cGFzc3dvcmQ=”)’ test@domain.comtestpassword Then connect to the server and try putting in the above SMTP AUTH details: [server]# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1… Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1). [...]

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Tags: Protocols · SMTP

YUM groups

January 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Oooops, installed too many of the groups during initial GUI installation for a server. [root@host~]# yum grouplist Office/Productivity Administration Tools Editors System Tools Text-based Internet GNOME Desktop Environment Authoring and Publishing Network Servers Hardware Support X Window System Graphics Web Server Printing Support Mail Server Server Configuration Tools Graphical Internet Time to remove some of [...]

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Tags: Linux · Operating System