For a script I want to build for maintaining WordPress themes & plugins a bit easier I wanted to basically loop through a list of locations of WordPress installations on a single server. This basically means I need to be able to create an “array”. I knew that you could use arrays in a shell […]
Category: Server Administration
Configure exim4 to send mail to other hosts
If you have just installed Debian (or other Linux) you might be stumped as to why sending e-mails from web software (such as forum activation e-mails) is not working. The reason is that by default the exim4 mail software is setup not to forward any mail to any remote hosts. This of course is an […]
Solving “IPv6 addrconf: prefix with wrong length 48” permanently
If you have a recent distribution of Linux, you might find the message “IPv6 addrconf: prefix with wrong length 48” repeated a lot in syslog. If you Google this error message you’ll quickly find that this is because IPv6 auto configuration (sort of like DHCP) is failing. Now if you don’t want to bother with […]
How to prevent cron & PowerDNS clogging syslog
On a default Debian installation both cron and PowerDNS will log into /varlog/syslog. If you are running very frequent cron jobs (like every 5 minutes) or an active PowerDNS server (or recursor), you’ll find syslog will be completely clogged with mostly unimportant messages. The solution of course, is to have these two services output log […]
Supermicro X9SCL/X9SCM: update the BIOS for IPMI
As I mentioned in my previous post, I had not much trouble getting my server to work in the Serverius datacenter with the exception of IPMI. This feature is built-in on the motherboard I used: a Supermicro X9SCL-F (the “F” part apparently indicates IPMI support). IPMI allows a number things for which you’d normally have […]