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Agreed. I have a script that synchronizes all of our 19 VMs. However, yesterday it copied our old resolv.conf and I don't use FQDN on the automount maps :-) Easy fix. Just a minor detail I forgot in our move from Newton to Littleton. On 08/28/2012 02:26 AM, David Kramer wrote: > 1) Getting postfix/dovecot to do SSL/TLS and to share auth is a BITCH! > The docs at https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/postfix.html are > both insufficient and incongruous with the files acutally installed in > 12.04. Welcome to open source. > > 2) If you want to fool around with putting /etc in version control, do > it BEFORE you muck things up so you can use it to restore and diff. I've > thought about this before but never done it. > > I'm very familiar with Subversion and mercurial, but decided on Git > because (1) you can't go on the internet on a non-porn site for 10 > minutes before someone mentions it, and (2) It puts it's dot control > directory in one place, instead of putting one in every directory under > its control, so I felt it had a lower likelyhood of causing problems. > We'll see. > > 3) There are several descriptions out there on how you can get kubuntu > into text mode and only start X when you want it. Most of them are > wrong. (1) There is no option to do this from the login screen. (2) > Removing kdm from /etc/init.d/, remarkably, does not prevent it from > running on startup, which is a clear violation on how upstart is > supposed to work. (3) You can, however, let it start, then do "service > kdm stop". Disappointing. > > 4) I am in very short order, happy with KDE. I have configured it to do > everything that I want with no problem. The only exception is some > equivalent to "gnome-do". > > 5) Once you get your SMTP system working, restore your spam filtering > system FAST. About 10% of my inbox was in Russian and Chinese, and > another 50% was selling me drugs or women, within a few hours. > > 6) Keeping my systems and backups simple really paid off, especially > twice-daily database dumps with a simple mysqldump means they can be > easily imported onto any system. Backups in .tgz format simply work. > > 7) I *really* need to get back to a regular sleep schedule. I've gotten > more than 3 hours sleep a night only three or four nights in the past > week and a half trying to get things working. And the resulting errors > have been a big problem. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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