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In my previous post I discussed the issue I resolved with Sendmail on FreeBSD 7. Since I am always testing different configurations with my setup on a test box, I discovered the deeper problem which involved a corrupted /usr/src. To resolve, I did the following…

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After years of running a legacy version of FreeBSD, I felt it was time for me to bring my web/mail server up to the latest version (7). At near completion, I had just my sendmail config to complete and was I ever surprised to find the lack of documentation for troubleshooting sendmail and FreeBSD 7!

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Ever run across this one? You install a port that prompts you for configuration options and it fails. You run a “make distclean” or “make deinstall” hoping to get rid of the options you chose or hoping to be prompted again during the install, but you don’t get prompted again.

Simply type “make rmconfig”  and reinstall the port to get the option window during your next install

Problems configuring Apache2 virtual hosts?  Try setting the wildcard character on NameVirtualHost without the port number. Do the same for all virtual hosts in the file. Make sure to use proper document root or server alias directives.
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At work I run a mixture of Server03 with AD and FreeBSD. For network monitoring/alerting I use a combination of nagios and cacti but on two different servers. Since I work for a school district and money was (and still is) an issue when I arrived there in 2004, I set up the nagios system on a spare x86 PC. I did the same for cacti but then moved it to a box that was donated to us recently. In an effort to consolidate multiple systems into the one donated box (a Dell PE2450), I rebuilt nagios and upgraded it to version 2. continue reading…

I had an interesting encounter this past weekend with rebuilding sendmail on freebsd. See if you know this one…