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Dec
30

2/4 failed drives in a raid5 array??

Apparently raid arrays don’t like it when you kill power to the machine. We’ve been doing remodeling in the house, and I’ve been turning on and off breakers. Apparently I forgot which breaker the servers were on, and turned it off accidentally a few times. One of the drives apparently did fail for some reason. I accept this. This happens all the time, and that is exactly why I have a...
Dec
25

Virtual Users with Postfix and MySQL

I recently discovered an excellent tutorial on setting up Postfix and Courier to use virtual users read from a MySQL database. This caught my attention because it is a much better setup than having real system users for all email addresses, as it allows much more flexibility. I finally set aside some time to set up a real mail server. I first went through the tutorial installing everything on a virtual...

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