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Made the switch to Fedora 15 from Kubuntu 10.10

10/5/2011 – 4:10 pm

Finally happened. I made the switch to Fedora. I’d been a Kubuntu user since 2006, but since the switch to Pulse Audio I have had serious problems with sound under Kubuntu in 10.10, 11.04, and 11.10 beta. I have no such trouble with Fedora 15.
I’ll likely be moving all systems I manage [...]

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Chef and dbconfig-common: A world of hurt

5/8/2011 – 9:57 pm

In constructing a Chef cookbook for managing dspam, I happened upon dbconfig-common, a framework that allows a package to manage database backends somewhat transparently. However, it has no affinity for preseeding. Another approach is necessary for the libdspam7-drv-mysql package.
In the relevant section of the recipe below, the file created to cache relevant database [...]

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Exim4 with DKIM and conditional greylisting

11/30/2008 – 8:50 pm

Exim4 in recent Debian GNU/Linux Lenny — Debian testing as of this writing — is quite easy to configure to use DKIM. The original implementation, DomainKeys, you’ve probably heard of. DKIM is the recent incarnation of DKIM and the one you’d want to implement today.
Building DKIM aware Exim4
First, you’ll want to build a [...]

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