{"id":476,"date":"2007-02-24T06:54:15","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T11:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/24\/sysadmin-adventures"},"modified":"2007-05-23T22:32:34","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T03:32:34","slug":"sysadmin-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/24\/sysadmin-adventures","title":{"rendered":"Sysadmin adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, its been a while since I dirtied my hands in the sysadmin forays. I was wondering why my system was not accepting mail for a domain that clearly pointed to it. Running <code>host<\/code> just pointed to the mailserver correctly, but when I ran it on the mailserver, there was an IP address mismatch. Thinking back a little, it seems that there was an IP change, just something I&#8217;d forgotten about. Oh how the great DNS, comes to bite you in the behind.<\/p>\n<p>MediaWiki these days likes PHP 5 (5.1 being preferred). I&#8217;ve discovered why Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 might suck &#8211; they only ship PHP 4.3.9, which is nowhere near as adequate for modern applications. So if I were a corporation and wanted to run the latest greatest Mediawiki on my corporate wiki, I&#8217;d be in a bind if I&#8217;m on RHEL4. Luckily, this is where the <strong>centosplus<\/strong> repository comes into active play &#8211; its got a modern PHP, and modern databases.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetplanet.org\/\">Planet<\/a> game. After running <a href=\"http:\/\/myoss.bytebot.net\/\">Planet MyOSS<\/a> for a countless number of years, I&#8217;ve just decided that the final migration should happen today &#8211; and it did thanks to a <code>Redirect 301 \/ http:\/\/planet.foss.org.my\/<\/code>. Update your bookmarks, feed readers, etc.. as Planet MyOSS now resides at: <a href=\"http:\/\/planet.foss.org.my\/\">http:\/\/planet.foss.org.my\/<\/a>. (except I checked it just now, and foss.org.my was down&#8230; it seems to be regularly down, why?)<\/p>\n<p>Those having to deal with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mynic.net\/\">MYNIC<\/a>, keep in mind that their online forms differ if you&#8217;re logging in as the Administrative or Technical contact (the latter is where you get to change DNS servers). And no, its not instant, they say its a 24-hr waiting period.<\/p>\n<p>Back to RHEL\/Centos. Why does the Linux Standards Base (LSB) stipulate that servers need to have CUPS installed, to be LSB compliant? I&#8217;ll probably talk more about the recent cleanups I&#8217;ve been doing at another stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, its been a while since I dirtied my hands in the sysadmin forays. I was wondering why my system was not accepting mail for a domain that clearly pointed to it. Running host just pointed to the mailserver correctly, but when I ran it on the mailserver, there was an IP address mismatch. 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