Dependency Addict :: The KN Admin Blog

I swore I’d never blog again.  That was–when?–late July 2006.  Oh, well, there go my mid-year resolutions: out the window, onto the street and driven over by a gasoline-chugging Hummer.

This blog has one single purpose: to keep you up-to-date with all things tech peculiar to Krimson News.  If something’s down, you’ll read about it here (provided you’ll decide to keep reading this particular corner of the KN Blogs); if something’s not running the way I’d like it to run, I’ll most likely gripe about it here (provided you’ll decide to keep reading this particular corner of the KN Blogs); if I’m tackling some exotic and esoteric software project that’ll help Krimson News advance, you’ll find out about it here (provided you’ll–you know the drill).

Over the course of last night and several repetitions of Yello’s Essential, many cans of Coke Cherry as well as too many break-neck software compiles later, we are now happily stuck with an e-mail server setup that not only allows us much better control of users without muddying up our Linux user table, but also runs much (MUCH!) faster than the old Sendmail setup.  The new system also filters out spam and all of those nasty, virus-laden attachments that are roaming around the ‘net these years.  A CentOS-specific tutorial for Postfix and Courier e-mail services using MySQL, SASL and Amavis seems in order.  But not here–that’ll be part of my Sliced Suitcase infotainment project.

And why the stupid name for this blog?  Well, over the course of the last three years that I’ve been working on Linux projects, I’ve finally come to the point where I’m more interested in modifying source code rather than stupidly and morosely installing pre-compiled packages.  I like the freedom of source installs, but hate dependencies.  Nevertheless, since I love creating custom packages to keep, cherish and occasionally ask out on a dinner-and-a-movie date, the blog title seems appropriate.  Plus, it’s a nice word play, but I don’t have to tell you that. 

Cheers, then!  I hope some of you might be interested in reading about what it takes to keep this server up and running and alive and kicking.  It’ll be a fun project to ensure the server doesn’t puke all over the exquisitely upholstered furniture again.

Nadim