I’m running a slave DNS server on the machine that runs this website. It is one of three DNS servers (one master, two slaves) that I have running for my multiple domains. I recently noticed from my Logwatch output that it was having issues with IPv6 lookups and these were causing timeouts and putting [...]
At work we run a number of Red Hat Enterprise machines and CentOS servers. After finding a large number of machines that were grossly outdated I decided to add a weekly cron job to notify us of available updates. I used something along the lines of:
#!/bin/bash
yum check-update | mail -s “Weekly Errata Report for [...]
I mentioned in a recent post regarding postfix smtp via Gmail that I use the logwatch utility for monitoring my systems. Ever since I found this utility I have really enjoyed the daily snapshot that it gives me of each of my systems, whether local or remote. Everything from package installed and removed, to security [...]
First of all I need to thank Daniel for turning me onto this tool. I’m administrator on more lists than I’d prefer and this has been a godsend!
If you happen to be one that missed his post recently on the planet, or if you’re just finding this via Google, Listadmin is a tool to [...]
Last nite I sat down and configured AWStats on my Ubuntu 7.10 server. I had previously been using statcounter, a free stat service, but I had noticed that it was one of the causes of slowdown on my page loads. Having to access an external site and javascript wasn’t helping. I also [...]
