Author Archives: Iain

Update on FreeBSD Postfix SASL SMTP Authentication

Posted on October 2, 2016 by Iain

After upgrading to FreeBSD 9.3, my was overwritten with postfix-current-3.2.20160925,4. This caused the following entry in my maillog: Oct 2 19:55:04 myhostname postfix/master[1481]: warning: process /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtp pid 90855 exit status 1 Oct 2 19:55:04 myhostname postfix/master[1481]: warning: /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtp: bad command … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Postfix SASL SMTP Authentication Troubles

Posted on January 26, 2016 by Iain

Ever tried sending mail from your own server and ended up on the Spamhaus Policy Block List (PBL)? I have, a couple of times. From my FreeBSD sever, I get daily emails; “daily run output” and “security run output”. I’m not particularly interested … Continue reading →

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Boot Failure After Ubuntu 15.04 Upgrade

Posted on December 25, 2015 by Iain

It’s Christmas time, which is when I get a chance to upgrade my home servers. This year one of them needed a double-upgrade: 14.10 to 15.04 to 15.10. After backing-up (which is essentially a tar command, more on that in another … Continue reading →

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ZoneMinder 1.28 API

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Iain

Over the holidays, I rebuild my CCTV server. Rather than trying to reuse the installation from the previous disk, I thought it’d be easier just to install everything fresh. Hence, I followed the instructions on the ZoneMinder Wiki. Following on from … Continue reading →

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My NAS Server 2 (Part VII) – Construction

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Iain

We already know we’re using one of those eBuyer value cases as a starting point. The first thing to do was strip out all the internals – we just needed the bare case. It was pretty simple to dismantle as … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 12.10 Upgrade Broke AFP

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Iain

Recently I upgraded one of my servers from Ubutnu Server 11.10 to 12.10 (via 12.04). Unfortunteatley, this broke AFP. When connecting, I got the error “Something wrong with the volume’s CNID DB“. I’m pretty sure I’ve had this error before, … Continue reading →

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My NAS Server 2 (Part VI) – Design

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Iain

First and foremost, I want to thank my friend Mat for helping with the design. I couldn’t have done it without you! As you will recall from , I had a second 4U case used only to house drives. This … Continue reading →

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My NAS Server 2 (Part V) – Inspiration

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Iain

Most likely I found it on Engadget, but it did crop-up in quite a few other places. I am of course talking about the Backblaze blog post ‘Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage‘. When I found … Continue reading →

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My NAS Server 2 (Part IV) – Expansion

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Iain

Wow, sorry for neglecting this series for so long – I got distracted by being employed! Hopefully, it’s not so long that I’ve forgotten my trail of thought. So at the end of my last post, I had four 1.5TB … Continue reading →

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Symlinks and Samba

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Iain

Having filled up my first RAID volume, I had to add a new mount and symlink the extra directories into the network share point. This worked absolutely fine for AFP, but when accessing the share in Windows via SMB, the … Continue reading →

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