A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
Today I’ve setup a cold backup routine to backup my Zimba installation running on my Debian (Etch) 4.0 server that is in full production now for my private domains. This is a slightly modified backup script for the Open Source Edition of Zimbra from the Zimbra Wiki. Please note that the script does a full […]
This post describes most of the steps I did to make a clean install of the open source edition of Zimbra on a little Debian test server including importing e-mail from a Dovecot IMAP-server. Downloaded the Debian 4 installer from the Open Source Edition Downloads page. Unpacked it and started the installer as root tar […]
For Red Hat Linux if you receive your IP address from a DHCP server, you may update the local DNS name by adding the following line to the correct ifcfg file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, such as ifcfg-eth0 or ifcfg-eth1: DHCP_HOSTNAME=”myhostname.example.com” If you are running Debian, edit /etc/network/interfaces as follows (adding the hostname line) iface eth0 inet […]
If you have many servers to manage and want to perform the same tasks on each of the machine every day, then you should look at the package named clusterssh. Install the clusterssh package apt-get install clusterssh Perform the same command on the three servers server1 server2 and server3 cssh server1 server2 server3 This opens […]
As I write this post my last Gentoo Linux server is about to be converted to be a Debian Etch server. This is a sad decision I’ve made since I’ve used Gentoo Linux running web, mail and databases since version 1.0RC1 december 2000 both in stable and unstable versions. This is a result of less […]