Monthly Archives: January 2012

Had a problem with a slave database being a different (newer) version of MySQL than the master. After downgrading to the correct version of MySQL, the replicated data was no longer consistent with the master. ( For a good tool … Continue reading →

I was moving some services to a different server and the postfix configuration wasn’t working right. The /var/log/mail.log had a bunch of repeated messages about Jan 18 15:44:42 HOST postfix/trivial-rewrite[30797]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/sender_maps.db: No such file or directory Jan … Continue reading →

this was harder than it should have been! Tried to follow this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EC2StartersGuide But could not get apt-add-repository to work no matter what. apt-add-repository: command not found Just lot’s of ‘command not found’ errors, even after installing the python-software-properties. Finally … Continue reading →

So we have a bunch of random aging servers doing various tasks. One of them needed to mount to a NAS unit with samba, but smbmount was not installed. Tried ‘apt-get install smbfs’ but got a bunch of errors about … Continue reading →

I’m using Open-E DSS V6 for a NAS solution and tried to install on a brand new 3ware RAID configured to use 15 X 2TB drives in RAID6. It would not install no matter what I tried; the instructions weren’t … Continue reading →