Similar Posts
First message
ByetzionWell, It’s been a while since I’ve considered playing with a blog of my own. I’ve never quite found the convicting reason which will pull me out of my chair, and not-a-single-thing-doing-for-a-whole-afternoon-while-browsing-the-net into the active part of installing my own blog. Well, I did just ten minutes ago. Why? Because during my tech adventures (as…
Why I don’t like GRUB – RHEL4 on system with local and external storage
ByetzionInstalled RHEL4 on a system with both internal storage (HP SmartAray 5i – cciss) and external disks through Qlogic FCS HBA. During install, the local disks were detected as /dev/cciss/c0d0 while the external disks were detected as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb After installation was done, Grub started with incorrect mapping. For no apparent reason, Grub searched…
reason: 550 Requested action not taken: Nonstandard SMTP line terminator.
ByetzionI have encountered this problem on my own personal mail server only once a while. It’s ratehr rare, and happends only when sending mail to some specific domains. My first notion was based on the claim that if it works for anywhere except for these one or two domains, the problem is with these one…
Using yum with SOCKS proxy
ByetzionSSH is a wonderful tool. One of its best features is the ability to pierce a firewall and let you go through it. If you’re using the dynamic port (-D as argument in command line openSSH), you actually get a SOCKS5 proxy over which you can transport all your desired data. This allows you the…
Linux Vservers, and stuff
ByetzionI’ve had the "pleasure" of reconfiguring Linux Vservers (virtual servers, kernel level, etc), to add additional IP addresses to each. Although this setup is old, and I wouldn’t dare change it to anything else (not on a production server, running 3 vservers, each running 400 hosted sites, etc), so I’ve checked the scripts, and so…
Security on the net
ByetzionI am not a security expert. I know my way, and I can use common sense, which is the best practice for a good security, but I get to hear terrible things. Not only the hunt for file sharing people is on full throttle, but media companies try (and succeed) in providing yet better, meaner,…

