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	<title>Ramblings from MostlyChris</title>
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		<title>Blocking Spam With Postfix</title>
		<link>http://blog.mostlychris.com/2011/12/780/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Postfix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.mostlychris.com/?p=780</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I stole this from Here. Also see this. I think it's well worth configuring Postfix with these options (tuned to your exact needs, of course) to block SPAM. Blocking spammers with Postfix alone The battle between email admins and spammers is an ongoing arms race. The spammers are at a disadvantage because by and large, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listing Users in mysql</title>
		<link>http://blog.mostlychris.com/2011/05/listing-users-in-mysql/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 22:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mysql]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mysql commands]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.mostlychris.com/?p=774</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I usually just take a look at the users' table in mysql to determine what users have access to databases and from what hosts. I ran across this nifty command today that will print it all out nicely in an ssh shell. mysql -u root -B -N -p -e "SELECT user, host FROM user" mysql]]></description>
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		<title>Logging from Cisco Firewall to Linux</title>
		<link>http://blog.mostlychris.com/2011/02/logging-from-cisco-firewall-to-linux/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mostlychris.com/2011/02/logging-from-cisco-firewall-to-linux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[logging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[syslog]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.mostlychris.com/?p=765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Logging from a firewall to linux is fairly simple. First, enable logging on the firewall with something along these lines (your options may vary): &#40;config&#41;# logging on &#40;config&#41;# logging standby &#40;config&#41;# logging timestamp &#40;config&#41;# logging trap notifications &#40;config&#41;# logging facility 19 &#40;config&#41;# logging host inside &#60;Your server IP address&#62; Notice that the firewall uses facility [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where in the heck do I get those intermediate/root certs?</title>
		<link>http://blog.mostlychris.com/2011/01/where-in-the-heck-do-i-get-those-intermediateroot-certs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mostlychris.com/2011/01/where-in-the-heck-do-i-get-those-intermediateroot-certs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 06:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.mostlychris.com/?p=757</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am forever trying to find the link to the root/intermediate certificates when I install an SSL certificate on a server. Since the root certificate is now required I spend too much time trying to locate it. To save myself some time, I am putting the link(s) for the certs here so I know exactly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change RAID Battery Learn Cycle (DELL)</title>
		<link>http://blog.mostlychris.com/2010/12/change-raid-battery-learn-cycle-dell/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mostlychris.com/2010/12/change-raid-battery-learn-cycle-dell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.mostlychris.com/?p=751</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The battery learn cycle causes some i/o headaches and slows things down. If you would like to change the times that the learn cycle runs, thus allowing the cycle to run when other items are not needing to use more i/o, throw this in cron. 0 4 1 1,3,5,7,9,11 * /usr/bin/omconfig storage battery action=startlearn controller=0 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>InnoDB Shows Disabled</title>
		<link>http://blog.mostlychris.com/2010/10/innodb-shows-disabled/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mostlychris.com/2010/10/innodb-shows-disabled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mysql]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[error]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innodb]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.mostlychris.com/?p=734</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently ran across a replication error in mysql that looks a bit like the following: Error: 'Incorrect information in file&#8230; &#8230; .frm on query' If you run the command: mysql -e 'show engines' You will see that the InnoDB engine is DISABLED. Since mysql ships with InnoDB enabled by default, this is a strange [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extracting Data from ibdata File Using Second Instance of mySQL</title>
		<link>http://blog.mostlychris.com/2010/10/extracting-data-from-ibdata-file-using-second-instance-of-mysql/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mostlychris.com/2010/10/extracting-data-from-ibdata-file-using-second-instance-of-mysql/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mysql]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[database recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innodb]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.mostlychris.com/?p=724</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I needed dump some data from a restored ibdata file on a production server. In order to do this, a second instance of mysql was started with a separate data directory. Here are the steps to make it happen. 1. Create a new data directory. mkdir /var/lib/mysql2 2. Install the base mysql server files. mysql_install_db [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adding mod_deflate to Apache</title>
		<link>http://blog.mostlychris.com/2010/08/adding-mod_deflate-to-apache/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mostlychris.com/2010/08/adding-mod_deflate-to-apache/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apache]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mod_deflate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.mostlychris.com/?p=712</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[mod_deflate allows apache to compress files and deliver them to browsers that can use compressed files. This saves on bandwidth and renders page loads faster. It's a fairly simple process to do this. You need to have write access to the apache config files and need to be able to create a new conf file. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autoresponder With Postfix</title>
		<link>http://blog.mostlychris.com/2010/08/autoresponder-with-postfix/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mostlychris.com/2010/08/autoresponder-with-postfix/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Postfix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Autoresponse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vacation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.mostlychris.com/?p=700</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To create an autoresponder or vacation notice on a server using Postfix, I use procmail on an individual account basis. In order to do this, first create a .forward file in the user's home directory with the following (quotes are to be included). &#34;&#124;IFS=' ' &#38;&#38; exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- &#124;&#124; exit 75 #tina_fp&#34; Create a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common SSL Commands</title>
		<link>http://blog.mostlychris.com/2010/07/common-ssl-commands/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mostlychris.com/2010/07/common-ssl-commands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SSL]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.mostlychris.com/?p=695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Read the contents of a cert: openssl x509 -text -in &#91;cert file&#93; Generate 2048 bit key and CSR: openssl req -out CSR.csr -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout privateKey.key Creating a self-signed cert with one command openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -days 365 -nodes -x509 -keyout www.example.com.pem &#160;-out www.example.com.pem Verify key and cert match: &#40;openssl x509 [...]]]></description>
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