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		<title>Backup MX with Postfix &amp; MySQL</title>
		<link>http://www.somerandomstuff.com/archives/344</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>srg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[backup mx]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to configure a backup MX or mail relay with Postfix, using a MySQL back-end.]]></description>
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		<title>rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries</title>
		<link>http://www.somerandomstuff.com/archives/329</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>srg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SysAdmin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I encountered this today when trying to query a package on a Red Hat server: rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries error: db4 error(22) from db-&#38;gt;close: Invalid argument error: cannot open Name index using db3 &#8211; Cannot allocate memory  (12) This happens when an operation involving the rpm db gets interrupted and <a href='http://www.somerandomstuff.com/archives/329'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>ServerSignature and ServerTokens</title>
		<link>http://www.somerandomstuff.com/archives/164</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>srg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SysAdmin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apache]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ServerSignature and ServerTokens are two variables that determine how the Apache server describes itself, which makes it useful to keep some secrets.   While obscurity is not security, it&#8217;s nevertheless a good idea not to save a potential attacker time by giving them the exact versions of everything you run on your server. ServerTokens ServerTokens describe <a href='http://www.somerandomstuff.com/archives/164'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Plesk 9 mchk failure</title>
		<link>http://www.somerandomstuff.com/archives/212</link>
		<comments>http://www.somerandomstuff.com/archives/212#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>srg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SysAdmin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under Plesk 9.2.3, mchk fails.  Here's how to fix it]]></description>
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		<title>qmail: disable SSLv2</title>
		<link>http://www.somerandomstuff.com/archives/170</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>srg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SysAdmin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pci compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[qmail]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to disable SSLv2 in qmail for PCI compliance]]></description>
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		<title>DBmail configuration gotcha</title>
		<link>http://www.somerandomstuff.com/archives/80</link>
		<comments>http://www.somerandomstuff.com/archives/80#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>srg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SysAdmin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dbmail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[latin1_swedish_ci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently decided to move my enormous mail archive from my trusty Courier-imap/Maildir setup to DBmail. The reason is simple.  I have several mail folders with 100,000+ mails in.  That means several directories with upwards of 100,000 files in.   And that means bad performance.    There is another reason:  I can execute far more powerful searches <a href='http://www.somerandomstuff.com/archives/80'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Plesk and Squirrelmail &#8211; the elegant way.</title>
		<link>http://www.somerandomstuff.com/archives/56</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>srg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SysAdmin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From time to time,  Squirrelmail gives this error on a Plesk machine: Error opening /var/lib/squirrelmail/prefs/default_pref Could not create initial preference file! /var/lib/squirrelmail/prefs/ should be writable by user apache Please contact your system administrator and report this error. Squirrelmail depends on safe_mode being off.  Let&#8217;s see if this is the case: # grep ^safe_mode /etc/php.ini safe_mode <a href='http://www.somerandomstuff.com/archives/56'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Konsole and the console font</title>
		<link>http://www.somerandomstuff.com/archives/58</link>
		<comments>http://www.somerandomstuff.com/archives/58#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>srg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SysAdmin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[console]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[font]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[konsole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After doing some updates on my Debian Lenny workstation, I noticed that KDE&#8217;s Konsole is no longer able to find the &#8220;Console&#8221; font, and upon trying to install it, I&#8217;m greeted with an error saying: Could not install console8x16.pcf.gz into fonts:/Personal/ Fortunately, this is easily fixable. As root, run the following: # dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config Choose <a href='http://www.somerandomstuff.com/archives/58'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>SMTP status codes</title>
		<link>http://www.somerandomstuff.com/archives/9</link>
		<comments>http://www.somerandomstuff.com/archives/9#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>srg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SysAdmin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[codes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[postfix]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sendmail]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered what all those SMTP status codes mean? It’s not that hard to read. Each code consists of three numbers. The format for this is]]></description>
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