As a linux administrator I utilize cron jobs whenever possible to automate periodic tasks. This is a great tool to handle backups, data pulls, etc but I don’t like that the results of these jobs are locked up in the local account of my system. Luckily, there is an easy way to handle forwarding these […]
The other day I found an old Olympus VN-480PC Digital Voice Recorder and thought that it could be useful. The first thing I did was put some new batteries in it and connect it to my desktop (running Ubuntu 12.4). Nothing…! A quick Google and I found this page and installed the software from the odvr […]
I have used my Asus ux31 Ultrabook for over a year and I really enjoy the form factor, especially when I am traveling. I work with a lot of Linux servers and have traditionally used Windows on my client machines and I use a lot of Adobe products but here recently I have been working […]
Service Name: postfix Config File: /etc/postfix/main.cf Add the following at the beginning of the config file and set appropriately: myhostname = [hostname].[domain] mydomain = [domain] myorigin = $myhostname inet_interfaces = $myhostname To add a relay host add the following line under “INTERNET OR INTRANET” relayhost = [relay hostname].[domain] (example: mailx.domain.com) Source: http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_an_RHEL_6_Postfix_Email_Server
Recently, I had an issue where a service would not start because there was a conflict on the port that it was trying to use. This command made it easy to identify which service was already using the port: netstat -lnptu Here is the explanation of each argument: -l = Show only listening sockets. (These are […]