Uninspiring.

I suspect a once-great thing was murdered before my eyes tonight; reduced to formulaic, expected one-liners and stiff performance.

Disappointing.

Learned hotswap as well, lately. Mainly when ‘make’ complained about ‘device full’.

Oh, the joy was felt.

cat /proc/scsi/scsi
(figured out adapter ID 4)
Plug in drive
echo “scsi add-single-device 4 0 2 0″ >/proc/scsi/scsi
(Adapter 4 channel 0 device 2 (third bay, so 0 1 … 2 is the new drive I assumed, and I was right)
fdisk /dev/sdc
mke2fs -j /dev/sdc1
mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt
mv /var/www/* (website files, and where the largest amount of space was being used) /mnt
umount /mnt
edit /etc/fstab
mount /var/www

Not bad for 10 minutes figuring and doing. Haven’t tried taking one out that way, though. May have to mock up a simple perl script for it.

… someone else with the same issue.

Setting up another system, and this time going through the various changes I had to figure out individually last time. (procmail, sendmail, apache, bind, etc)

Come to mimedefang 2.63. Made and all flawlessly, only the included examples/init-script or init-script.in fail with errors:

./rc.mimedefang: line 346: unexpected EOF while looking for matching “’
./rc.mimedefang: line 366: syntax error: unexpected end of file

(So I use slackware and I’m following the convention for startup scripts…)

Anyway, it seems the reason is, on line 246, it’s missing the last left-leaning apostrophe that the other lines have.

Figured that out after some caffeine and dutiful commenting until I narrowed it down.

Comment if you find this helpful. (my stats for this blog comes up on some strange search results).