useful linux commands for non sys admins

Posted by Adrian on Dec 31, 2007 in Open Source | 0 comments We just had a minor crisis with our dedicated server (thanks to Fasthosts sceurity breech and the subsequent roor password changes) and I’ve learnt these new shell comands: postfix flush flushes the mailqueue du --max-depth=1 /home/ | sort -n -r lists the sizes of folder when you cannt work out where all the massive log files are located! find...
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RIP Outlook, the whole company has completed its migration to Zimbra!

Posted by Adrian on Dec 12, 2007 in Open Source | 7 comments The title says it all, December is a quiet time of year for us and so we planned and executed a smooth transiation to Zimbra from Outlook 2000.  It went very well, and whilst there are changes for the users and some learning, there are benefits as well as drawbacks in the move. As we are SILL on v4.5 (come on Zimbra team, we want 5.0!) our users are currenly missing the following...
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How to add a new hard disk drive to an ubuntu desktop

Posted by Adrian on Dec 5, 2007 in Open Source | 2 comments My home PC is an old Dell machine with a 40GB IDE hard drive.  Having just bought a new 160GB drive for backups from my laptop, I couldnt work out how to install and configure it in Ubuntu as it dosnt recognise the presence of a new drive on startup. So, I again used GPARTED , and booted up the machine using GPARTED and formatted the drive that way as a new ext3 format.  Now its recognised...
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starting to migrate all users to zimbra

Posted by Adrian on Dec 5, 2007 in Open Source | 0 comments We’ve started migrating individual users across to Zimbra, despite V5.0 still not being released (I’ve got fed up of waiting).  So far all is well, but there are some problems that I hope to resolve when we do move to v5.0 later this month. users signatures are limited to 1024 (or thereabouts) characters.  This is a problem, as we cannt fit our disclaimer in it.  There is a...
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