Akom's Tech Ruminations

OK so I have special needs. (Either that or I am just oblivious to a working example of this).

My needs are:

1. Do not receive inbound mail
2. Do not deliver mail locally at all
3. Send all outbound mail through an upstream relay (ISP's smtp)
4. Qualify local addresses with a valid domain name (ISP's smtp will reject invalid domains)
5. Map some local addresses to convenient aliases (distribution lists in the real mail system - google apps in this case)

Doesn't seem so hard, right? So I started with the postfix "Satelite System" option in ubuntu installer, and then...

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I am writing this down because it was somewhat hard to figure out how much of the HOWTO's out there are out of date. This is not particularly difficult, but it's my first RAID setup and this blog is my notepad. I am setting up a RAID1 on a Dell Precision 490 with two brand new 500GB SATA drives.

First I tried using BIOS RAID. My system doesn't have a true RAID controller card and after some trial,error and googling I decided to forget it and go with an industrty standard (MD) Linux software RAID. I reset my drives to non-raid in the BIOS, popped in Ubuntu server x64 CD and went on ahead.

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