New Mail Server

So now the new mail server is up, though not accepting mail. I played around w/vinum last night and this morning from home (Let's hear it for OpenSSH!), and broke it -- but figured out what to do next.

The problem came in the way I'd laid out disk space w/the first install. Okay, so four drives; 128M for /, the rest for vinum. Only instead of setting up all the partitions on all the drives as I wanted them to be in the end (equal in size for raid5), I'd made a big /usr partition, then hoped I could juggle /usr over to a raid partition, re-disklabel the first drive to make the partitions the way I wanted them, add another subdisk/partition/slice each to the existing raid5 drives -- gah. No wonder it fell apart. The obvious solution was to make the /usr partition smaller (didn't need it as big as I'd originally set it), and go from there.

Got excited at this realization, so went into work an hour early (such a geek) and worked on it all day. Got it into the server room, up and running, even set up Sendmail for the first time (tested it for relaying, hands sweating), and got it all up and ready for tomorrow.

One weird thing was that I couldn't figure out how to get FreeBSD's port of net-snmpd (formerly ucd-snmpd) to work w/tcp wrappers and hosts.allow -- it would only allow connections with ALL : allow ; anything else would just refuse connections. Weird. I'll have to figure it out tomorrow.

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