Well, after having used the go’old mbox format, I have now changed my mail setup to maildir. What a difference. I think the load on my machine is actual less then before the transition.

I used google (mbox convert maildir) to convert my setup to maildir, this was all relatively easy. Both postfix and procmail were “fixed” this way.

After restarting I indeed saw mail being deliverd to my newly created Maildir directory in my homedir. But I couldn’t read it…

Ik beheer mijn eigen DNS en mijn eigen mail/web server op de computer die ik thuis heb staan; gewoon om te blijven leren hoe zulke zaken in elkaar steken. Ik zal hier vertellen hoe ik een site op heb gezet.

Tis wel ontzettend lang geleden sinds ik dit allemaal opgezet heb, dus ik hoop dat ik het nog juist vertel.

voorbereiding

Dit verhaal gaat er vanuit dat je een domein hebt geregistreerd en dat er een A (address) record met de naam ‘www’ bestaan. Dit address record heeft het IP adres van jouw host. Ik zal het hier over het domein miek.nl hebben. Ik ga verder niet in op de details die je moet regelen omdat voor elkaar te krijgen.

I’ve worked with cfengine in the past and really like it. It really cuts down on management for the systems that used it. For my home network I thought I try something else, that something turned out to be puppet.

I must say that I already like it more than cfengine as you can write much smaller manifests.

goals

I want to centralize the management of the files in /etc and I want to keep track of changes of the file. For the management I’m going with puppet and for the versioning I choose git.

more

Compare the following:

$ touch -- -x
$ less -- -x
<control-C>
$ more -- -x
more: unknown option "-x"
usage: more [-dflpcsu] [+linenum | +/pattern] name1 name2 ...

WTF? more doesn’t know what “–” means. Okay, time for a patch.

uniq

$ uniq --help
Usage: uniq [OPTION]... [INPUT [OUTPUT]]

Ah, so we support an INPUT file and an OUTPUT file…that’s not really unix like IMHO. And what you suppose does:

Installing Ubuntu (the modern way)

Right now I’m installing Ubuntu (gutsy) on some PC. The default install CD from ubuntu forces you to do this in X-window. And it all runs from a live-cd…. It’s slow and not usefull, and looking over my shoulder I see it has crashed in ‘Detecting Filesystems’…. Great.

I also hit an issue where the bottom of the installer program (ubuigity they call it) wasn’t completely visible on the screen, so I couldn’t click the forward buttons. I’m downloading the alternate install CD right now. That at least works quickly and ok.