Month: August 2013
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pidof moving to procps
pidof is a program that finds the PID of a named program. In some ways it is like a cut-down pgrep found in the procps package. pidof currently sits in sysvinit-tools. There are plans to move all utilities that use the proc filesystem under one package which will make the maintenance of them simpler, which…
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postfix transport with smarthost
Dear lazyyweb, Has anyone got a way for postfix to use a transport map such that it sends email to the given MX host for some specified domains then default to a smarthost for the remainder? The logic would be: IF domain in (‘example.net’, ‘foo.bar’,etc etc) THEN use the relevant MX host ELSE send to…
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Careful with apache upgrades
You might (or not if you don’t visit) notice all my websites were down. A rushed apt-get dist-upgrade and I found two problems: PHP5 got removed, which is bad if you run a wordpress site that uses PHP to run The apache configuration has changed. Yes, the NEWS entries did warn me, if I read…