So, for several weeks now, I’ve been struggling with disk naming and UDEV as they relate to RHEL or CentOS Kickstart automation via PXE. Basically, what used to be a relatively straight-forward process of setting up partitions based on disk name (e.g. /dev/sda for the primary disk, /dev/sdb for the secondary disk, and so on) …
Tag: servers
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 …
Nov 12 2012
WordPress FLV plugin WP OS FLV slow
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been designing a basic site (in WordPress) for a new client. This client needs some embedded FLVs on the site, and doesn’t want them (for good reason) to be directly linked to YouTube. As such, and seeing as I didn’t want to make the client write the HTML for …