Archive for March, 2008

March 18, 2008

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Updated the RequestTracker file that controls the body of the message used for the outgoing email, when a new ticket is created. The file was called "vubuntus:/etc/request-tracker3.4/initialdata", and the comment area began around line 228. Now it looks just like I want it to. And totally unrelated to technology, CNBC's Jim ...

March 17, 2008

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Migrated my vmWin2k3 host from my vm380num1 VM server to my vm580num1 VM server tonite, after reducing memory footprint from 192Mb to 128Mb.   This was so that I could make room on my vm380num1 host to bring vmConfWiki back up for some testing.  The copy took a while, ...

March 16, 2008

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

... sorry, had to edit this - too many spam mail crawlers were finding this, and spamming my blog - so just remove the underscores from the variables below .... Finally resolved a pending issue for months ... fixed the email sending from my wiki box. It required edits to ...

March 15, 2008

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Resolved issue with Request Tracker today - where I now allow new email features to work for this.  A requirement was the firewall change that I made recently, and now I can accept specific addresses only, for this.  This change was needed in vubuntus:/etc/postfix/main.cf : mydestination = $myhostname.$mydomain relay_domains=$mydestination That resolved my mailing ...

March 14, 2008

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Completed firewall modifications, and now new sites are enabled.  Took a bit of mods on dns addresses, plus port mappings - but this should be much better now. Also recovered from house power failure tonite - so spent the better part of an hour getting things running again.  At this time, ...

March 12, 2008

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Added new virtual interfaces to my firewall policy and recompiled.  This will help me enable new services from my internal network by exposing more address:port combinations.  That way I can enable additional features in Request Tracker , and expose my Wiki to the world.  That however, will require the installation ...

March 05, 2008

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Figuring that there have been enough hits now to review statistics, I was right. Found a few tweaks I needed to make. Notably, the big brother "bbnet" program that checks url's for availability is generating alot of hits to my sites that shouldn't be counted. So I ...