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I complain here a lot about running a mail server. There's a new package out based on Qmail (which is what I presently run, but in a slightly out of date manner,) called Qmail Toaster Plus. I'm very excited about it. It's just the basic Qmail package, but with a whole bunch of patches and add-ons selected and bundled together for you. Or, in other words, it looks like it will take a lot of pain out of installing, and more importantly, staying up to date, as it's now available as a yum repository. Probably the coolest tool that QTP includes is qtp-newmodel which will upgrade a Qmail Toaster installation automatically, but it does it by building the new installation in a sandbox - without touching your current installation. At that point you can do some testing to make sure everything works before you take your still running older installation down and replace it with the new one. That just feels so much safer to me. Why doesn't everything work like that?
Great script for analyzing MySQL my.cnf values: tuning-primer.sh
cd /usr/local/sbin wget http://www.day32.com/MySQL/tuning-primer.sh chmod 700 tuning-primer.sh tuning-primer.sh