ipmitool

stuff to do on a dell server to see what the hardware says… apt-get install ipmitool modprobe ipmi_msghandler modprobe ipmi_devintf modprobe ipmi_si ipmitool sel list You should probably also put those modules into /etc/modules

perc 5/i

This seems to be the equivalent of a megaraid 8404E from LSI, it’s a great in that it’s compatible with SAS and SATA disks, and is available for cheap on ebay. using it on linux you’ll want to get the megaCLI from LSI and for ubuntu, you’ll want to convert Read more

qmail on ubuntu

basically the qmail package in ubuntu kinda works, but things are in really unusual places, so for your sanity you should probably hand crank your qmail install. If you don’t, you’ll want to replace the defaults in /var/lib/qmail/aliases for .qmail-default .qmail-postmaster and .qmail-root as the automagic install tries to do Read more