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neglected to mention the upgrade to 11.2 and then the patches. I had planned to add DKIM and DMARC protection to one of my other domains, but having took my laptop realised I had not packed the charger, so decided against making changes I might not be able to complete. A job for another weekend.
Not much to report this month as weather far too nice to spend messing around on the server indoors. Technological updates have really been around the house and finally getting to set up the smart tellies to be able to stream content stored on the server.
Plus just taken possession of a Kindle Fire 10 with Alexa built in so will be interesting to see how much use that gets
My daily and weekly status updates from Root stopped appearing in my main inbox a while back, (probably when I switched from Sendmail to SSMTP. ) but they did appear in my secondary email account as this was the bounce-back address for email failures, as failure reports.
Issue seemed to be that the Root mail box was not reachable anymore. Attempts to amend an alias to have them delivered to a live account failed as most of the method listed for amending Root’s alias are for Sendmail.
A bit of googling found this post http://possiblelossofprecision.net/?p=591 and identified the correct file to edit as /ETC/MAIL.RC and add
set append dot save ask crt
ignore Received Message-Id Resent-Message-Id Status Mail-From Return-Path Via
alias root yournewrootmailboxhere@nowhere.com
to finally restore my housekeeping updates from the system
Had been playing around which Apache to add a new virtual host and somewhere, somehow, the auto update on WordPress stopped working and insisted that I entered the FTP credentials which is not something I have enabled on this server. A bit of googling came across this post highlighted a potential work around in the WP-config.php to allow direct updates. A quick edit with EE and an apachectl restart and WordPress update routine worked flawlessly as it did before, with out needing FTP access.
might actually get around to updating more often now as finally sorted the mobile app to allow me to upload from the phone. Stay tuned!
Finally got around to researching how to automate Certificate renewals on Freebsd and now have the Cron job running to take care of things.
Website has been down a few days as been very busy, so tried to rely on package updates rather than building from ports to keep everything patched as Perl and Python going thru the ‘Flavour’ splitting and packages where supposed to be easier. To cut a long story short, it also downgraded my PHP version and dropped the Database support module in the process. So in order to get the website back up I have had to manually install the port for the DB support, mixing packages and ports which is not a good idea. At least the site is up and running again and I shall stick to ports in the future to ensure the latest patches are always applied.
Its looks like Amazon may have heeded some of the comments around the removal of uploaded MP3’s to your Amazon Library and if you are quick enough can at least save what you have already uploaded once the service is terminated next month.
A quick visit to Your Amazon Account and Music Settings, shows a new option to “keep my songs”. Ticking this should at least retain anything already uploaded. A bit annoying as its means I can’t upload anything new brought via iTunes, but at least the stuff I have already uploaded will still be there.
Note sure what happened to system patches p6, and p7 but system update 11 p8 is now out and been duly applied. Plus updates to Apache, PHP and MySql in recent weeks hopefully means I am up to date on the latest patches.
After being dropped in at the deep end with work and sent on a TOGAF course on my first week as an Applications Architect, it didn’t really all make sense then, but having recently revisit the training and covering various different domains over the years I finally feel my TOGAF badge is warranted.
