Grimsy's Blog

Utilising old desktops around the office

So over the years, we have some old desktops in the office which aren't really good enough to use for development any more. I've started breathing new life into them by using them to backup our Subversion repositories by using svnsync.By setting up cron jobs to sync every x minutes or even hours you can have a huge amount of redundancy for next to no cost.The read only mirrors are also handy for other applications that create load on your repositories (build servers etc) so I use a near real-tim...

Erratic Sendmail problems…

I've recently installed Drupal 6, and was having problems sending out emails (specifically for new users and password resets). The problem was that sometimes the mail was coming through, and other times it wasn't (it didn't even appear in our mail server logs). After lots of scouting around, I noticed that in /var/log/maillog (on FC6), the relay kept on changing. On our network, we have 3 domain controllers, one of which is a mail server. Send mail was using it's "Smart" relay to figure out w...