Linux and PHP web application support and development (Bromsgrove, UK)
If you’re having spam trouble with qmail [edit – 2019; new fork, qmail.org is offline] based Linux servers (in our customer’s case – Plesk based) then perhaps you need to look at using SpamDyke Installation is pretty easy – wget http://www.spamdyke.org/releases/spamdyke-4.3.0.tgz tar -zxf spamdyke-4.3.0 cd spamdyke-4.3.0/spamdyke ./configure make && cp spamdyke /usr/local/bin Then, assuming qmail is […]
With the increasing prevalence of virtual machines, cloud servers and so on, performing systems administration is becoming more time consuming (more servers = more work!). One approach at solving this has been through the use of system management tools like puppet, cfengine and chef. In our case, when we’ve looked at these in the past, […]
We and others have sponsored the “kickstarter” campaign for Geary (a new desktop email client for Linux). “Geary is a new email reader for GNOME designed to let you read your email quickly and effortlessly. Its interface is based on conversations, so you can easily read an entire discussion without having to click from message to […]
Below is a simple shell script which can be used to control execution of tasks on a Linux system based on the systems current load value – with the intention that if the 5 minute load average is greater than a given value the script exits with an error return code (1) or completes without […]
Some time ago, a new customer approached us (thanks to a referral from Bytemark); they were using a virtual machine to host their website. The machine itself was RedHat 9 (from 2003ish) and was used to take online bookings for events. Here’s a summary of what we found, which may prove to be interesting/useful for […]