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using grml to prepare LVM surgery

One of my dedicated servers was in bad need of major LVM surgery today. Since the rescue system delivered with the server by the housing provider suffers from lack of LVM support, I needed to pull a creative stunt with grub and grml to accomplish this.

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DPotW: swaks

Description: SMTP command-line test tool
 swaks (Swiss Army Knife SMTP) is a command-line tool written in Perl
 for testing SMTP setups; it supports STARTTLS and SMTP AUTH (PLAIN,
 LOGIN, CRAM-MD5, SPA, and DIGEST-MD5). swaks allows to stop the SMTP
 dialog at any stage, e.g to check RCPT TO: without actually sending a
 mail.
 .
 If you are spending too much time iterating "telnet foo.example 25"
 swaks is for you.

A very important tool which makes debugging e-mail a breeze. A must for every mail admin.

Recovery pur

Ich sitze hier gerade in einem Vortrag über Open Source im Auswärtigen Amt. Der erste Satz, den ich - knapp zehn Minuten zu spät kommend - auf der Folie sehe, ist "Debian als führendes Betriebssysem".

Auf der nächsten Folie steht dann "Nagios, Munin als Ablösung für HP OpenView". Ich glaube, mein Tag ist gerettet.