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Was receiving the following errors in the mail.log after upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 LTS to Ubuntu 10.4 LTS:

Aug 19 12:32:55 mail postfix/pipe[2208]: 88FD22BC84: to=<user@domain>, relay=maildrop, delay=1180, delays=1180/0.02/0/0.04, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied /usr/local/maildrop/bin/maildrop.bin: Temporary authentication failure. )

I had previously installed maildrop from source, but, decided to change it [...]

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Was trying to add a database user via the control panel and received the above error message.
Fix by running:
mysql_upgrade -uroot -ppassword
Or add the table servers in database mysql:
CREATE TABLE `servers` (
`Server_name` char(64) NOT NULL,
`Host` char(64) NOT NULL,
`Db` char(64) NOT NULL,
`Username` char(64) NOT NULL,
`Password` char(64) NOT NULL,
`Port` int(4) DEFAULT NULL,
`Socket` char(64) DEFAULT NULL,
`Wrapper` char(64) NOT NULL,
`Owner` [...]

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“XCache is a fast, stable  PHP opcode cacher that has been tested and is now running on production servers under high load. It is tested (on linux) and supported on all of the latest  PHP cvs branches.”
What we did to install it…
First, made sure that php-devel was installed from the Atomic repository.
# yum install php-devel
Running [...]

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Needed to add 64 IPs to a CentOS 5.4 system and it was going to be a pain adding individual files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:X
There is a nice way to alias a range of IPs to your interface automatically when the network comes up.

Configure your eth0 interface as normal
Create a new file: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0-range0
In the ifcfg-eth0-range0 file you [...]

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Installed Gnokii from the standard Ubuntu lucid repositories, however, it installed Gnokii 0.6.28.  This was fine, but, upon testing came across an issue.
Notes: Phone Nokia 7250, Cable CA-42
Running in debug mode:
# gnokii –sendsms +MOBILE_NUMBER
….
debugging information
…
Please enter SMS text. End your input with <cr><control-D>:
would work fine to this stage.  On entering a message it would some [...]

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