Category Archives: Linux

FOG: Deleting all current active tasks

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Jon Smith

FOG is “a free computer cloning solution” found at http://www.fogproject.org/. If your a seasoned user you will no doubt have groups setup so you may run commands on multiple machine without loading each one individually. In my scenario we have … Continue reading →

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SUSE Studio

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Jon Smith

It has been a very long time since something on the web has impressed me to the point of being amazed. But today I found out about SUSE Studio Continue reading →

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pg_standby triggering unexpectedly

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Jon Smith

I have been having a problem with my redundant PostgreSQL setup over the last couple of weeks. I run two Postgres servers with a WAL Logging Warm Standby system using pg_standby from 8.3. When the master server is under heavy … Continue reading →

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Postfix/SASL/Courier AuthDaemon Cannot connect to Courier authdaemond: No such file or directory

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Jon Smith

I have a Ubuntu Virtual Server handling all my mail, recently after an apt-get upgrade I was unable to send email using my Postfix Virtual User setup through Courier and SASL. I kept getting the following error in my logs: … Continue reading →

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Linode Network Stats in Cacti

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Jon Smith

Linode provides a convenient XML data feed that provides information about your CPU usage and Network Usage. The graph for the CPU Usage seems a little useless, but I have included it here as the XML feed provides the data. … Continue reading →

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