Friday, May 8, 2009

sendmail to exim

So, I've had it with sendmail. And I'm pretty proficient with it -- my first "real" job was partially devoted to keeping it running for CSU. Exim looks like a pretty good replacement that a lot of people http://smtpsurvey.stillhq.com/smtp-survey.cgi?dashboard=1. I had to remove an 'exec' out of my .forward to spamassassin, and then just removed the .forward as exim knows enough to look for a .procmailrc anyway. To see the queue, do 'exim -bp'; to forcibly flush it, do 'exim -qff'. In sendmail, it was 'mailq' and '/usr/lib/sendmail -oQ/var/spool/mqueue -q -v'

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Multiple USB drives with the same name but different mount points and udev

http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2006/12/06/how-to-always-mount-removable-drives-in-the-same-place-ubuntu-6061-610/

http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html

lsusb -v | more

$ udevadm info --name=/dev/sdc1 --query=all
P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-8/5-8:1.0/host6/target6:0:0/6:0:0:0/block/sdc/sdc1
N: sdc1
S: disk/by-id/usb-Maxtor_OneTouch_2HAAE8JF-0:0-part1
S: disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:8:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1
S: disk/by-uuid/798610cb-bde3-4d9d-8773-675d1255ea59
S: block/8:33
E: ID_VENDOR=Maxtor
E: ID_MODEL=OneTouch
E: ID_REVISION=0121
E: ID_SERIAL=Maxtor_OneTouch_2HAAE8JF-0:0
E: ID_SERIAL_SHORT=2HAAE8JF
E: ID_TYPE=disk
E: ID_INSTANCE=0:0
E: ID_BUS=usb
E: ID_PATH=pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:8:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
E: ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
E: ID_FS_TYPE=ext3
E: ID_FS_VERSION=1.0
E: ID_FS_UUID=798610cb-bde3-4d9d-8773-675d1255ea59
E: ID_FS_UUID_ENC=798610cb-bde3-4d9d-8773-675d1255ea59
E: ID_FS_LABEL=
E: ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=
E: ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=

$ udevadm info --name=/dev/sdb1 --query=all
P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-2/5-2:1.0/host4/target4:0:0/4:0:0:0/block/sdb/sdb1
N: sdb1
S: disk/by-id/usb-Maxtor_OneTouch_2HAABRGC-0:0-part1
S: disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1
S: disk/by-uuid/838eeab8-95c8-4ceb-a571-bc17aaa8a7a4
S: block/8:17
E: ID_VENDOR=Maxtor
E: ID_MODEL=OneTouch
E: ID_REVISION=0121
E: ID_SERIAL=Maxtor_OneTouch_2HAABRGC-0:0
E: ID_SERIAL_SHORT=2HAABRGC
E: ID_TYPE=disk
E: ID_INSTANCE=0:0
E: ID_BUS=usb
E: ID_PATH=pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
E: ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
E: ID_FS_TYPE=ext3
E: ID_FS_VERSION=1.0
E: ID_FS_UUID=838eeab8-95c8-4ceb-a571-bc17aaa8a7a4
E: ID_FS_UUID_ENC=838eeab8-95c8-4ceb-a571-bc17aaa8a7a4
E: ID_FS_LABEL=
E: ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=
E: ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=