Monthly Archives: July 2004

Whoo!

Posted on 7/30/2004 by Mike

Happy Sys-admin day to me! Thanks for the mushy popsicles that you guys bought. I’ll be sure to get you all something nice for virus-dude day, programmer-man day, windows-tweaker-guy day, email-forwarding-manager day, design-fu-master day, PR-chick day, T-shirt-orderer-person day, or crazy-idea-nut … Continue reading →

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New Styx Interface

Posted on 7/27/2004 by Mike

I started on a new interface to styx, and it’s looking pretty good. It has the ability to pick the time ranges to rank students in. It’s also pretty. I added a new column that shows the highest rate they … Continue reading →

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Follow up on qmail + SMTP AUTH + TLS

Posted on 7/20/2004 by Mike

To answer Bart’s question about that Incredibly Informative Error Message from qmail, here’s how I got it working: The file /var/qmail/bin/config-sanity-check checks that your configuration is setup right. If not it simply prints Some error detected, sleeping for 30 seconds … Continue reading →

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Fake DNS

Posted on 7/10/2004 by Mike

So to properly do the fake DNS with selective forwarding requires 3 nameservers. That is going to be a pain to pull off with the limited number of servers we have. DNS servers only work on one port, UDP 53. … Continue reading →

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distfiles mirror

Posted on 7/8/2004 by Mike

So we already have a single location where all gentoo machines store their distfiles. We have most of the latest distfiles for all popular portage apps. If we served the distfiles up on a webserver with an alias to it … Continue reading →

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OMG FIRED

Posted on 7/7/2004 by Mike

demaram, joseph, and rock just got fired. I’m not sure why rock had his account for so long. He should be pretty set with his gmail account.

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