Technical - Spheron1

March 15, 2010

E-mail notifications from yum-updatesd

After wrestling with yum-updatesd in a rather confused manner for some time, I finally discovered why it wasn’t e-mailing me notifications of updates; it needs the dbus service (messagebus) to be running, even if you are not using emit_via=dbus and with dbus_listener=false. With the messagebus service running so that yum-updatesd could connect to the dbus service it didn’t need to...

Red Hat and CentOS Comments: 0

March 15, 2010

WHMCS v4.2.1 and Google Checkout

The Google Checkout module has been updated in the new v4.2.1 version of WHMCS and the release notes have a slight omission; the Google Checkout module no longer works out of the box with the default settings in your Google Checkout account. In order to fix this, go to Settings and then Integration and then under “Shopping cart post security”...

WHMCS Comments: 0

March 5, 2010

@mail in Plesk 9.3

I recently upgraded a server to Plesk 9.3 only to find that it broken @mail. The list of available webmail clients no longer has @mail in it and trying to remove the psa-atmail RPM failed with a script error. In the end, I had to force the removal of the RPM with the –noscripts option and then go and manually...

Plesk Comments: 0

February 4, 2010

Per-domain/per-account settings for Plesk 9’s greylisting

Plesk 9 introduced the very useful feature of greylisting for the Postfix SMTP server (and presumably the QMail one as well, but I only use Postfix as QMail gives me a headache!). Greylisting basically sends a “resource temporarily unavailable, please try again later” message whenever someone connects and tries to deliver an e-mail. For legitimate SMTP servers, this isn’t a...

Plesk Comments: 0

January 20, 2010

RouterOS v4.x and BGP

Just a quick heads up for those using upgrading from RouterOS 3.x to 4.x and using BGP to announce a default route to any of your peers; you need to set “default-originate” to “always” or “if-installed” for each peer you have configured in RouterOS if want to announce the default route to. This setting is off by default in v4.x...

Mikrotik RouterOS Comments: 0

October 19, 2009

Binding Zimbra to an IP

Zimbra is a fantastic collaboration suite, but it suffers from one major flaw; it really likes to take over your entire server! If you want to run Zimbra and your web site on the same server without moving Zimbra’s web UI to another port then you’ll have to convince it to bind to one IP address you can use the...

Zimbra Comments: 0

October 15, 2009

Windows Server 2008 and Adaptec 1430SA

Drivers for Adaptec’s 1430SA controller aren’t included with Windows Server 2008 for some reason best known to Microsoft. Although you can download the drivers from the Adaptec site, this doesn’t really help you if you are trying to install Windows onto the RAID controller itself… After a bit of fiddling, I managed to get the drivers onto an ISO that...

Drivers and firmware/Windows Comments: 0

September 9, 2008

iPhone tethering

Despite Apple and the assorted carrier’s best attempts to stop people from using the iPhone as a 2G/3G modem by pulling the NetShare App from their online store, it is still possible (and fairly widely documented, if you know where to look). All you need is a Jailbroken iPhone with the BIND (named) DNS server and 3proxy SOCKS proxy server...

iPhone and iPad Comments: 0

August 3, 2008

On the warpath

Hey, guess what? In typical Edward style, it has been ages since I updated this thing and I still haven’t got the site working fully or using a custom skin. I have an excuse… I am busy/lazy (take your pick!) 😉 I got back from going to see “The Dark Night” a couple of hours ago. It’s a bloody good...

General/Mikrotik RouterOS Comments: 0

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