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Exim4 not acting as a mail submission agent for remote users

I can send emails from my mail server if I am logged into it via a shell session. I can't send emails over an Internet Message Access Protocol session, because I don't believe I have Simple Mail...

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Best way to require a file exists prior to installing an rpm

I'm building an rpm that has to check if the user foo's .bashrc file is present prior to installing. Unfortunately it's not enough to assume just because the account exists, the file does. What's your...

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How do you all manage your home networks?

I have more than a few machines at home, I'm sure we all do. With gadgets I have 14 IP addresses just in my living room.I'm trying to cut down the space and power used at home and thinking of using a...

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sexilog - rename elasticsearch filters?

I've put in sexilog but obviously the name 'sexi' is not appropriate for an enterprise solution. I really, really like the product but I cannot seem to find a way to intutiively manage the filter names...

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Do browsers generate html tags based on content-type?

I had an issue at work where an improperly generated content-type header resulted in a javascript file which was sourced into a web app to actually be incorrectly rendered as an image. The HTML for the...

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Linux to linux fileserver

What would you recommend as a file server on Linux to share files in a Linux only network with about 150 users and using LDAP for authentication? submitted by gvs77 [link][13 comments]

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service migration from a 10 yo server

Hey everyone,I'm tasked with the migration of a 10 year old asterisk fax server at work with no documentation whatsoever. The server is a old Debian 4.0 system with some local changes. As you can...

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Script code to implement locks with files/directories in a restricted version...

Hello everyone, i'm using on several machines openwrt 12.09 . This operating system is very satisfying under certain scenarios.Most comands are provided, on the basic installation, by busybox, a...

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Force outbound IP address by application on multi-homed server (CentOS 6.6)?

I have an application that needs to have clients connect from unique IP addresses (it uses IP to identify user).I would like to have a single multi-homed server, and run multiple clients on that...

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Creating a Virtualbox VM without gui

I want to spin up a VM for my friend on my headless debian server, so that he can play with the instance without me having to wall him in with no sudo and linuxbrew or worrying about him breaking the...

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Web servers other than apache and nginx

So I am working on a paper that should evaluate web servers in terms of module support, speed, memory footprint, features and such specs. Other than apache, nginx, lighttpd what else would you...

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Debian Wheezy - what's the stupid, pre-cooked solution to this IP/port...

EDIT: Thanks everyone, back into the IPtables well I go. For loops ahoy!I'm trying to rebuild from scratch a functionality in an old production box, and I'll need to do this five times over the next...

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Looking for info on Elasticsearch Shield

While working on deploying Graylog 1.0 in our environment, we realized that the access control options really aren't there for what we need. There's no arbitrary user groups which makes managing ACLs...

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Homebrew on Linux

I read that homebrew (http://brew.Sh) the package manager that really makes Mac OS package administration bearable, is coming to Linux and will be the first widespread cross-distribution package...

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Openssl 1.0.1 available for centos 5 ?

Hey guys Like the subject says i am looking for openssl 1.0.1 latest rpm for centos 5 (5.8) Cant seem to find it. any of you installed this ? submitted by ibexmonj [link][10 comments]

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KVM web monitoring tool ??

I'm running some VMs over kvm (libvirt) (RHEL6). I would like to know if you can recommend me any, almost perfect :) (i tried severals, with no really luck showing what i need)... web monitoring tool....

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Virt-install issue using storage pools/volumes

Trying to create a kvm guest using a volume that was created from a storage poolvirsh # pool-list Name State Autostart ----------------------------------------- vg_kvm active yes virsh # vol-list...

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Block mail being sent to root to only localhost/localdomain

I am still getting a bit of spam on my postfix/dovecot server I have running (this is only for testing/learning how to work with mail servers for fun) and it is because mail is being sent to root from...

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What is the status of the MP3 patents in 2015?

I read that Debian is including an MP3 decoder in their repos now? Can anyone confirm if this is true or not? Some research I did shows that there are patents that expire in 2016 and 2017, but they all...

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Trouble coming up with ideas for script

Hey everyone,I'm relatively new to scripting so forgive me if there's a simple solution that I'm overlooking. I've got to do a bunch of work this weekend that involves transferring a file to a number...

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