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Archive for September, 2010

Overly agressive spam rejection

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

I’ve been getting a few of these emails lately. It’s my own servers rejecting email I’m send to myself.
I’m not sure yet where to adjust these settings. I’m not even sure what software is rejecting it. I suspect amavis.

Return-Path: <dan@supernews.example.org>
X-Original-To: dan@nyi.example.org
Delivered-To: dan@nyi.example.org
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by nyi.example.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B2F350BC6
for <dan@nyi.example.org>; […]

ntp wasn’t running but Nagios didn’t notice

Friday, September 24th, 2010

Earlier today, I noticed the following output from a Bacula job:

24-Sep 14:14 bacula-dir JobId 38548: Start Backup JobId 38548, Job=latens_home.2010-09-24_14.12.38_31
24-Sep 14:14 bacula-dir JobId 38548: Using Device “MegaFile-latens”
24-Sep 14:09 latens-fd JobId 38548: DIR and FD clocks differ by -307 seconds, FD automatically compensating.

That’s 5 minutes. It shouldn’t be varying by that much.
So I started ntp. […]

Rebate!

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

Back in Feburary, I ordered a 720W PSU for $150. There was a $60 rebate with it. When the PSU arrived, I promptly filled out the form and put it in an envelope for mailing. Except, I didn’t mail it.
I found that envelope a few weeks ago. What the hell. I […]

ZFS - how much space do I have?

Sunday, September 19th, 2010

According to this, I have 5.41T available.

$ zpool list
NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT
storage 12.7T 7.28T 5.41T 57% ONLINE -

According to this, I have 3.7T available:

$ df -h | grep stora
storage […]

Sending out a URL for password reset

Friday, September 17th, 2010

Quite some time ago, FreshPorts and The FreeBSD Diary both moved from clear text passwords to password hashes. As such, you are no longer able to recover your password. You had to email me. This is extra work for everyone. Let us automate this.
The first, step, is a table:

create table user_password_reset(
[…]

3Ware RAID issues resolved

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

It seems the RAID issues mentioned in recent posts have been resolved. On Friday, I upgraded the firmware on the controller and rebooted. 5 days later, the status is still OK:

$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/tw_cli info c0 u0
Password:
Unit UnitType Status %RCmpl […]