Software Issues

einstein LDAP crash

Einstein said that service ldap was running, however, nothing could reach the server, not even local ldapsearches. It turns out that the Berkley database was corrupted due to a bad shutdown earlier in the day.

In case this happens again, follow this procedure. There should be physical copies of this in the server room in case the wiki is unavailable

Mail Chain Dependencies

When updating any one of these, it is important to shut down all of them beforehand. More

Postfix

Mail transfer agent that routes and delivers e-mail

SpamAssassin

Filters out junk mail sent through it by postfix

User Software

Firefox