Archive for April, 2006
The new server arrived on Monday, but I've only now got around to unpacking it. My daughter assisted in getting it cabled it up for me, and I'm now in the process of getting it loaded up with software.
Michael created a Mantis bug-posting-API which allows us to submit Mantis tickets from Nagios by calling the Mantis API with a carefully crafted _GET_ request.
Very useful indeed and I'll be wrapping that into the odd Nagios plugin shortly.
On a central Dovecot IMAP server it is rather easy to determine which users are currently online: a process list with ps ax displays at least one _imap_ process for each connected user detailing the username and the IP address of the client. That was the basis of what I used for monitoring on-line IMAP [...]
I love savoy (German: Wirsing). Tonight we are preparing it by frying some bacon or lamb salami and adding the savoy cut into strips. Fry the savoy for a few minutes, then add 100ml of stock and 200ml of cream. Boil until the sauce thickens and is nice and creamy.
Serve with lamb filets and wild [...]
The machine I ordered has been built and shipped.
By rights it ought to be delivered on Monday.
It is a long time since I've bought myself a toy, so I opted for a new server "chez Mens".
A Dell PowerEdge SC430 is to be delivered within a week and will replace a number of aging machines. I'll be installing CentOS 4.3 on it and VMware's server will be hosting some other operating systems.
The [...]
According to this posting, the Fedora Directory Server (nee Netscape Directory Server) "blows away OpenLDAP for large scale LDAP deployments".
Is there anybody who can contribute hard facts about that? I find it hard to believe…
The Changelog has a hilarious post entitled Mail Server Comparison:
* Postfix: Your mail can now have the distinction of being deleted by 53 individual subservers
* Sendmail: Priority treatment if you can write, while holding down your Shift key, an m4 macro to calculate the airspeed velicoty of [...]