Something that I get to do occasionally at work is review old code to fix some random bug. I actually enjoy doing this because I rarely get to program anymore (since I have never been a developer) and it’s nice to brush up on it again. The other day, I ran into some [...]
In many operating systems, you can find the connection between a specific process and an open port using lsof as I mentioned here. What if you don’t have lsof, like in Solaris 9? Well, if you have pfiles, you can do the same thing by looping through the current processes and checking what [...]
I got tired of the small width columns of the original template that I used to build this blog, so I finally went in and modified the CSS to make the columns bigger. This should make it so that the code is easier to read and copy. According to Google Analytics, 99.7% of [...]
This weekend I got the joy of rebuilding a Solaris 8 server from scratch with backups. I had another server of the same hardware available to use for the restore, except it had Solaris 9 mirrored across 2 hard drives. Someday, I’ll go through and document the whole process, but basically I broke [...]
So I had a problem with a RHEL5 clone (OEL5) Linux VM that would not shutdown postfix correctly on either a powerdown or on a reboot. Here’s the error I saw:
Dec 15 16:43:01 testvm postfix[3160]: fatal: could not find any active network interfaces
Dec 15 16:44:04 testvm postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
Dec 15 16:44:04 [...]