My brother Barry caught this excellent shot last night of a plane passing in front of the moon. I suggest you take a wander over and check it out for yourself, it’s a good one! Well done Barry!
OMG…I’ve just spent a ball busting few hours grappling with SMTP AUTH using SASL on my mail server. I’m running postfix on Ubuntu Edgy, and it’s been doing silly things with chrooting postfix. I’ve read so many articles and how-to’s on what should be a relatively trivial task, and, it turns out I was being bitten on the ass by a simple little problem, as per usual. What’s worse is that I found the solution on a blog comment. More on that later.
The problem I was having was that I was unable to authenticate my users, whilst logging in via SMTP, despite the fact that I was able to authenticate them with testsaslauthd. So, I know I have a working database, that can authenticate my users, and I’ve everything configured as it should be, but, I’m still not able to authenticate users connecting via SMTP. I’ve told saslauthd about the fact that postfix is running in a jail, and postfix knows all about saslauthd. What it doesn’t know however, is where to look for the sasldb. Why? Because of the fact that the postfix init file was not told to copy over the db into the jail on init.
To fix this, you will need to look for the FILES section in your postfix init file, which, as you can see, tells the daemon to copy over certain required files to the jail:
FILES=”etc/localtime etc/services etc/resolv.conf etc/hosts \
etc/nsswitch.conf”
for file in $FILES; do
[ -d ${file%/*} ] || mkdir -p ${file%/*}
if [ -f /${file} ]; then rm -f ${file} && cp /${file} ${file}; fi
if [ -f ${file} ]; then chmod a+rX ${file}; fi
done
It doesn’t however, tell postfix to copy the sasldb over to the jail, resulting in lovely errors like this in your log file:
Mar 8 21:59:07 budvar postfix/smtpd[14746]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such file or directory
So, the trick as you can probably see by now is to include the following in your FILES section etc/sasldb2. Give that a whirl, reload postfix, and you should have a fully functional SMTP server doing Authentication for you. Hopefully Google will pick up on this and rank things a little better, because I found my fix buried deep down (see comment 6) in the depths of the internet.
There was a bit of downtime for some people to this here blog over the past 24 hours or so, bit of a ooppss on my behalf, apologies for that!
How the hell did I miss this up to now?! I know I haven’t been exactly heavily involved in the blogosphere over the past few months, but, I at least thought that I would have heard about headphoneland given that the only blogs that I do really keep a keen eye on are photoblogs. headphoneland last night won the award for Best Photoblog at the Irish Blog Awards, and I don’t think I was the only person in the room who went…who?!
I’ve just checked it out though, and I want to give a massive hat-tip to Gavin for his excellent blog. I’ll be adding it to my list of daily views, there’s some really, really good stuff there.
There is a total lunar eclipse visible from pretty much everywhere in the world tonight. In Ireland, the moon first enters the Earth’s shadow at 9:30pm and will be Totally Eclipsed from 10:44pm to 11:58pm. It then leaves the Earth’s shadow fully at 1:12am. I suggest you get yourself out to a nice dark location, look east and get your camera out to get some nice shots of a dark, red moon. Unfortunately, due to the Irish Blog Awards, I think I’m going to miss it. 
Still looking forward to the Blog Awards though! 
If, like me, you’re a massive Damien Rice fan, you may be interested in checking out this site which contains four exclusive acoustic video performances of Damine doing ‘9 Crimes’ ‘The Animals Were Gone’ ‘Coconut Skins’ and ‘The Blowers Daughter’, which, as well as having him playing the songs, includes a nice little intro about the songs too also.
It’s good to see The Irish Blog Awards are picking up some good PR again, Dave Fanning had a piece on DriveTime earlier, Six One News have an article tomorrow and the various newspapers have been covering things pretty well over the past few days too. I’m honoured that The Dublin Community Blog has been shortlisted in the Best Group Blog category, massive hat-tip to all the contributers to the blog for all their hard work and effort. I’m looking forward to hooking up with some of the gang, as well as various other Irish Bloggers on Saturday night at the awards. I’ve almost completely dropped out of the blogging scene over the past few months, having no time to either read or post, but I still try and keep half an eye on what’s going on!
Good luck to everyone nomintated for an award, and hopefully with all the PR and exposure blogging is going to get over the next few days we get more and more Irish bloggers coming online and joining the club!
So, has anyone in Ireland bought anything from TechnikDirekt recently? I used them last year and it took about three weeks for my parcel to arrive from the shipping date, just wondering if this has improved at all, I’m awaiting delivery on a parcel for over a week already and starting to get impatient!!
Recent Comments