Here is some advice I found useful when setting up my RPM build environment, and building a basic RPM. The main source I used, to save reading my book again or the man pages, was Linc Fessenden’s blog and some of Linc’s blog is repeated here for completeness. Thanks Linc! These instructions should work fine on any …
This week I was looking into init scripts again, its been a while… Anyhow, I remembered that I had written one for distributed.net’s client app. I thought I would share it, place in “/etc/init.d/dnetc”. It should work fine on current releases of Fedora, RHEL and CentOS. Its designed for the sysadmin to configure dnetc for …
Here is a quick HowTo / TechTip for deleting all the mail from an exim mail queue! After the issue I blogged about the other day, where a webserver was being used to generate spam, we were left with a lot of spam email in the servers mail queue awaiting delivery. Amongst other things, this …
Do you run a squid proxy? I do, and have been restarting squid to apply config changes for ages. Turns out that you can just run “service squid reload”, users have no down time and your config changes get applied. Great. Wish I had thought to check that before now….. 🙂 (This works on RHEL/CentOS, …
This is my quick guide to do an install and basic setup of exim on CentOS. This is not meant as a fully inclusive guide but it will get you on the way. Following this you should get a working exim install. I will assume you have built a CentOS 4 / 5 Server, have …