Posts by scottk:
rebuild postfix virtual.db
adding new info to the postfix virtual file and need to rebuild virtual.db:
postmap virtual
will create the virtual.db file from virtual
good stuff
Looking back over the last year I was thinking about which new application has made the most impact in my day to day work. My first thought was Xen and what it’s done for the servers, but that path had been started down previous to me taking over the reigns as sysadmin. I don’t feel […]
curves
The last six months we’ve been dealing a lot with Rails at work. I wouldn’t say I’m an old school perl guy but it’s what I cut my web teeth on and the language I know best. I have been a perl-ie man for the bulk of the last 10 years. As my current position […]
worm
I’ve been able to get more reading done lately. One book I’ve read is Upping the Anti- by Tom Gillis, this was given to us by one of our Cisco vendors upon request. The book itself isn’t bad, it covers the basics of spam, virus and spyware happenings in the last few years. If you […]
rotate those rails logs
As we come closer to going live with a high traffic Rails apps it’s time to hammer out log rotation. Thus far I’ve established a standard deployment location of /usr/local/sites/sitename for our apps. Following this advice I think I’ll use standard logrotate to move the logs around. I’ve read that log rotation can be done […]
Flat on your face
Tonight’s ponderance is, how long will Facebook last before it goes flat? Don’t get me wrong, I really do like Facebook and I’m very impressed by all the clicky widgetry and modules people have written. I just don’t see how Facebook will manage to support itself with advertising once it becomes yesterdays cool thing (aka […]
Technorati
I decided I’d try to get authorized on Technorati, no real reason to decide to do this other than I was browsing and it fell into my “hey that would be neat” category. Their process looks extremely easy and involves three steps: Create Account Get Code to put in blog post Click a button to […]
text conversion
dos2unix is something I’ve used for ages, converting windows files into something more pretty for my linux machine. Looking for it in my new install of ubuntu I discovered it’s within the tofrodos package, which I must note for later reference.
backwards
So after getting home today I realize that I had my tshirt on backwards all day. I spoke with multitudes of people today, of which nobody mentioned it. While I was wearing a button up shirt over my tshirt, it did not take more than a glance in the mirror at home to notice something […]
rhel5 via usb
So I’ve got my spiffy new HP DL360 G5 unboxed and pieced together and then I realize that they don’t come with CD/DVD drives in the low end package, something I should remember by now. That means the DVD of RHEL5.1 I’d burned yesterday to make sure I was ready, is pretty much useless. I […]