errors
Ubuntu 11.10 + saslauthd: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: no mechanism available
You have installed Postfix with saslauthd on Ubuntu 11.10 and get the following error in /var/log/mail.log when you try to send an email: server1 postfix/smtpd[7868]:…
Fedora 15 – Error: Package: glibc-2.14-5.i686 (updates) Requires: glibc-common = 2.14-5
You get an error like the following one on Fedora 15: Error: Package: glibc-2.14-5.i686 (updates) Requires: glibc-common = 2.14-5 Installed: glibc-common-2.14-7.x86_64 (@updates-testing) glibc-common = 2.14-7…
Debian/Ubuntu – unable to make backup link of `./usr/sbin/sshd’ before installing new version: Operation not permitted
You try to upgrade OpenSSH on Debian/Ubuntu (packages openssh-client and openssh-server) and get the following errors: Unpacking replacement openssh-server … dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/openssh-server_1%3a5.5p1-6_amd64.deb (–unpack):…
CentOS 5.6/Dovecot – Fatal: listen(::, 143) failed: Address already in use
You try to start Dovecot on CentOS 5.6 and get the following error: Fatal: listen(::, 143) failed: Address already in use Solution Open /etc/dovecot.conf……
Postfix/Greyfix – warning: problem talking to server private/greyfix: No such file or directory
You get the following error in your mail log: Aug 26 16:20:00 server1 postfix/smtpd[8471]: warning: problem talking to server private/greyfix: No such file or directory…
CentOS 5.6 – php53-common conflicts with php-common
You have PHP 5.1.6 installed on CentOS 5.6 and want to update to PHP 5.3 like this: yum install php53 php53-cli php53-common php53-gd php53-imap php53-intl…
MySQL – mysqldump: Got error: 1016: Can’t open file: ‘./exampledb/xxx.frm’ (errno: 24) when using LOCK TABLES
You try to create a MySQL database dump and get the following error: mysqldump -u root -pmysecretpassword –opt exampledb > exampledb.sql root@server11:/tmp/mysql# mysqldump -u root…
Postfix/Dovecot – warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: No such file or directory
You have the following error messages in your mail log: Aug 23 15:55:01 server1 postfix/smtpd[15194]: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: No such file or…
SpamAssassin – config: no rules were found! Do you need to run ‘sa-update’?
You run spamassassin –lint and get the following output: [root ~]# spamassassin –lint config: no rules were found! Do you need to run ‘sa-update’? [root…
Nagios/Icinga (Debian Squeeze) – NRPE: Command ‘check_procs’ not defined
You monitor a remote server with Nagios or Icinga and see the following errors in your Nagios/Icinga web interface: NRPE: Command ‘check_all_disks’ not defined NRPE:…
