Recently, I wrote an article about amavisd not running with Postfix, and getting a “Connection refused to 127.0.0.1” error message that wasn’t easy to diagnose. Yesterday, I ran into another problem with amavisd refusing to start properly, and I wasn’t readily able to figure out why. By default, amavisd logs to your mail log, which …
Tag: networking
May 20 2015
Amavisd isn’t running with Postfix – connection refused to 127.0.0.1
Late last night, I decided to apply some needed updates to my personal mail server, which is running Gentoo Linux (OpenRC) with a mail stack of Postfix & Dovecot with AMaViS (filtering based on SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and Vipul’s Razor). After applying the updates, and restarting the necessary components of the mail stack, I ran my …
Mar 21 2014
Linux – RHEL 6 / CentOS 6 two NICs in the same subnet, but secondary doesn’t ping
Recently I ran into a problem with RHEL 6 (and any derivatives, like CentOS 6 or Scientific Linux 6) where having two NICs (network interfaces) in the same subnet resulted in strange behaviour. In RHEL ≤5 (or CentOS ≤5), one could have two interfaces with IPs in the same subnet and there weren’t any problems …
Thought for the Moment
