m2cw – my 2 cents worth

check out this page for some of the most amazing charts:Karl Hartig

unfortunately they all end before 2000! it would be cool to have some of them updated!

i was having an annoying postfix error in my log files:

Mail[260] Unhandled response to command STATUS: * NO Mailbox vulnerable – directory /var/mail must have 1777 protection

the solution: i changed the chmod attributes to 1777! (according to the guys at pine, makers of postfix, it makes no difference! for me it does as it doesn’t fill up my logfile with entries every 5 minutes!)

fire up that terminal and type:
cd /var/
sudo chmod 1777 mail
type in your password and it should work!

update: the only problem: after a “repair permissions” you have to do it again! i guess i will have to install a cron job… stay tuned…

update: i used lingon, the software that lets you edit cron/launchd jobs! with the assistant it was easy to set up a job that must be run at a specific time (5:30 am) as root user with the command chmod 1777 /var/mail. now i only need to wait and see if it really works tonight! 😉

interesting post on productive meetings

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here is how i changed the cron files in mac os x 10.4.5.: because the httpd log files were rotated every week, webalizer only had a weeks worth of data in the statistics. thus i had to change the log rotation to monthly.

i copied the rotation bit out of the weekly maintenance script (/etc/weekly) into the monthly script (/etc/monthly).

now webalizer should have data for the whole month and the log files of the webserver will be rotated each first of the month!