Some of the scripts that run to check for certain conditions use sendmail to “file” a report to me. Unfortunately, on many upgraded machines, sendmail was not configured correctly, so the report never left the machine on which the script was run. Since I don’t want to log into each machine to get the reports, I have to change who gets the reports. This is done with /etc/mail/aliases. This used to be sent out from the head node to all other machines, but that no longer will work. Mailman also uses the aliases file to store its information. So, I decided to simply send out a new aliases file once, to update all machines. Then manually go to the mailman server and fix the aliases file. (Then have to run newaliases for them to take effect.) When I get some time, I’ll write a script that does this all automatically (or that uses cfengine for it, which would be even better).
Archive for February, 2007
Sometimes the installation wizards in windows don’t install all the drivers that you want. In these cases, you have to force the installation of the driver. Mark found out how to do that. Go to the inf file that you want to install, right-click it and choose INSTALL. This will avoid the installation wizard and install the driver.