Out of Control®

Just a quick note to say that I have started making some custom plugins for WordPress. I have found this to be a fast way to get what I really want in a website. So impressed am I with WordPress, that as of today I will offer starterBlog(tm)’s to anyone interested, starting at $9 US [...]

For a couple of years now I have been using Spamassassin with great success. Over time I occasionally would teach Spamassassin what spam is with the ‘sa-learn –spam mboxdata’ command. It has been awhile since I did this and figured it was time once again to teach Spamassassin a thing or two about spam. Locally [...]

What to do if you get this in your cron.daily file: Reloading httpd: [ OK ] /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: usage: kill [ -s signal | -p ] [ -a ] pid … kill -l [ signal ] usage: kill [ -s signal | -p ] [ -a ] pid … kill -l [ signal ] Using a [...]

This morning I noticed for the first time in my nightly cron jobs, that Makewhatis on my RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) box, was giving ‘zcat: stdout: Broken pipe’ errors. A quick search on EV1Servers forums showed that skeeter1jd had the solution: Edit /etc/cron.weekly/00-makewhatis.cron: change the this line: makewhatis -w to: makewhatis -w -u What is [...]

Occasionally I get a server that starts tossing out emails with no message body–blank emails. Today I noticed that I also get a ‘Failed to link message body between queues’ error in my daily (nightly really) LogWatch. After a little research I re-discovered the fix to the blank email message body… I hope. The solution, [...]