Archive for the ‘Admin’ Category

A favorite site for setting up a system

Tuesday, October 12th, 2021

https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Fedora_34&p=initial_conf&f=4

Idea for a small home server

Tuesday, October 12th, 2021

https://www.ionos.com/digitalguide/server/configuration/vpn-server-set-up-via-raspberry-pi-and-openvpn/

Configuring no-ip

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

Working with Dynamic IP Address & Your Server

Enable the postfix Mail Transfer Agent

Monday, May 7th, 2012

I want to use git’s mailing capabilities on OS X Lion to send out patches. How do I configure the MTA?

This Enable the postfix Mail Transfer Agent looks interesting, but old:

  loghyr:postfix root# head /etc/hostconfig 
  # This file is going away

But I think we can control all of this from the postfix(1).

  loghyr:postfix root# postconf -d | grep etc
  alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
  alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
  config_directory = /etc/postfix
  sample_directory = /etc/postfix

I’m going to need a version for my home network and my vpn network:

loghyr:postfix root# cp main.cf home.cf
loghyr:postfix root# cp main.cf work.cf
loghyr:postfix root# cp main.cf default.cf

Edit the config files and start it:

loghyr:postfix root# cp work.cf main.cf
loghyr:postfix root# postfix start 
postfix/postfix-script: warning: group or other writable: /Library/Server/Mail/Data/mta
postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system

How do I get it to stay launched? What’s the correctly way to make Postfix run permanently on Lion (not server)

I can switch my config files as needed.

Hmm, it works. I can’t show you, but it works.

The main thing I changed from the article I linked in was the relayhost:

relayhost = [mail.internal.excfb.com]

My setup assumes that I am connecting to an already working mail server in the domain. I.e., my iMac isn’t going to be receiving mail, just sending it.

Some cool mutt links to getting it working on OSX

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
  1. Using mutt on OS X
  2. Using Mutt with Gmail

Ha, mutting again

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

I get tired of Outlook messing with my space alignment when I cut and paste code. I don’t care if I turn off HTML or not, it still does it. And even if I turn off HTML, the Linux-NFS mailing list rejects my posts.

So, back to mutt. The big thing people complain about when I switch back and forth between mutt and something else, is that my “From” flips from “Tom Haynes” and “Haynes, Tom”.

I tried setting gecos_mask in my .muttrc, but no joy.

This worked for me instead:
set realname=”Haynes, Tom”

I don’t care what format it is in, as long as people don’t gripe. :->

Netgear WN3000RP and iPhone

Saturday, August 13th, 2011

Just had a weird experience with my Netgear “Universal WiFi Range Extender WN3000RP”.

It seemed pretty evident I wouldn’t be able to automatically add it to my Airport network, so I whipped out my iPhone and quickly connected to the NETGEAR_EXT network. And I quickly got it connected to my home network. I even told it to use the same password as my home network.

And just as quickly, it was not useable. I could not connect the iPhone to the new network and when I got out an old laptop, it wasn’t working either.

So, I got out my trusty paper clip and reset the Netgear box. And this time, as I was installing, I paid more attention. The issue turned out to be a nasty interaction between the iPhone browser automatically making the first character in the data entry be upper case and the Nethgear being case sensitive for the password. I don’t know that I’ve ever encountered the case sensitivity, but maybe I’m just super cautious with that normally.

I also can’t figure out why with an unobstructed view of my Airport Extreme Base Station I’m loosing 31% connectivity and through one wall, I’m seeing 48% loss.

Overview of installing Arch Linux

Monday, June 27th, 2011

Build a Killer Customized Arch Linux Installation (and Learn All About Linux in the Process) has a good overview.

But in all honesty, Arch Linux does a pretty good job. The main point I got from the above link was to make sure to edit /etc/rc.conf.

VMware upgrade might blow away your networking

Monday, June 27th, 2011

If you have customized your Fusion networking, be sure to make a copy of /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/networking to your home directory before upgrading.

And then copy it back and before you start up a VM, do sudo ./boot.sh –start in that directory.

ctags and cscope

Friday, May 27th, 2011

ctags and cscope