Category Archives: SysAdmin
Fixing the flashing red alert light on an Altus 1600 SS
Don’t know how many of them are still out there, but my school had a couple of Penguin Computing Altus 1600 SS 1U servers when I arrived. One was offline and the other was being used as a sendmail/dovecot email system. They might have come shipped with Fedora back in the day. I setup the [...]
Problems with Lacie iamakey USB Flash Drives fixed
I really like the design of the Lacie iamakey and related USB flash memory sticks that look like actual keys. I was thinking about moving off the consistent performers I issue to employees, faculty and staff from Sandisk. So, I got an 8 gig and 32 gig to test over the last couple of months.
I [...]
IPCop and Intel Quad PT Gigabit Ethernet Card
IPCop is a great little Linux-based firewall distro I use for many reasons. It is really easy to work with and some modules are really great to have around for minimizing bandwidth waste and handling content-filtering as needed. The distro is designed to work on older, basic hardware and it does a great job with [...]
Using kmsrecover in Kerio Mailserver (It works!)
Recently, we had an issue with our Kerio Mailserver where we had to restore data for a couple of users from a backup and kmsrecover worked well. Kerio Support directed me to the manuals. A direct link is here. The server does need to be shutdown prior to the restore. I recommend using the flags [...]
Open Directory Replica doesn’t connect to Open Directory Master in Leopard 10.5 server
A possible fix Leopard Server 10.5 Open Directory Replica issues