I have to say 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.
SUSE Studio allows you to build/create your own Linux distribution based on SUSE linux.
“Build an appliance — or your own custom Linux distro — with a few mouse clicks. Customize it to your heart’s content, and share it with the world!”
We have been having an issue with our HP DL160 G5 servers lately. After a BIOS update (and on one occasion it occurred without any other updates, just a power outage and a reboot) when the server boots the system fans spin at top speed (sounds like a jet engine) and the server screen shows
BMC Updating… Please Do No Shutdown or PowerCycle System!
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This is something I have been thinking about recently, I was driven to actually set it up because of another project I am working on at the moment. There is a fairly simple set of instructions to use over at NetTuts – Build a ‘WordBurner’ Email Newsletter Manager using WordPress and FeedBurner. I skipped the steps about creating a single category as for what I need all posts would be candidates for emails.
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 load and generating a lot of WAL traffic the secondary server has been tripping and going active.
After checking all the logs and putting pg_standby in debug mode there was still no clue as to why this was happening.
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:
Aug 18 07:53:53 marvin postfix/smtpd[23938]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to Courier authdaemond: No such file or directory Aug 18 07:53:53 marvin postfix/smtpd[23938]: warning: localhost[127.0.0.1]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: generic failure
After consulting with Google for at least an hour i finally hit upon a page that helped me.