Announcements • Pine on Shell Servers
Posted on July 3, 2019 One customer, who was migrating from centos6 to ubuntu, brought it to my attention that pine was not present on ubuntu and alpine had an unworkable default configuration. I have...
View ArticleAnnouncements • Guacamole
I'm banned from x2go-users list because I dared to disagree with Lord King Master Stephan Baur, the project owner. What will I do with the rest of my life? I know, I'll install Guacamole on all my...
View ArticleAnnouncements • Debian Upgrade Completed
Posted on July 8, 2019 The Debian upgrade has been completed. The shell server debian.eskimo.com is now “buster“, otherwise known as Debian 10. It seems generally crisper. I only had to sacrifice two...
View ArticleYour Products and Services • Writing assistance from Essays Chief
The common assignments that are mandatory for the students are essays, research papers, dissertations (for college), thesis (for college), etc. However, managing time to finish those assignments...
View ArticleAnnouncements • Tonight 11pm to ~4AM Interruptions
Posted on August 3, 2019 I will be performing maintenance activity tonight after about 11PM that will involve the reboot of various servers and taking some down for backup imaging. This requires about...
View ArticleAnnouncements • Manjaro / Social Maintenance
Posted on August 4, 2019 I did not complete all the maintenance I had intended last night so manjaro and social are presently down for maintenance. Expected down time less than one hour.Statistics:...
View ArticleAnnouncements • Maintenance Completed Aug 5th 4:30AM
Posted on August 5, 2019 Maintenance was completed around 4:30 AM this morning. Anything down is broken. Please report anything down using either https://www.eskimo.com/ -> Support -> Tickets or...
View ArticleAnnouncements • Web Server Upgrades
Posted on August 18, 2019 We are always trying to improve the speed, reliability, and functionality of our products. To this end we’ve made the following upgrades to our web server: Upgraded to Apache...
View ArticleAnnouncements • OpenSuse Down
Posted on August 26, 2019 OpenSuse.eskimo.com is going to be down longer than I thought, days, maybe weeks. 15.1 is installed but I can’t get into any of the graphical tools I need to complete the...
View ArticleAnnouncements • NextCloud
Posted on August 28, 2019 Presently a large number of NextCloud applications are unavailable. This is because in a recent update something went wrong breaking one or more of the apps. With all of the...
View ArticleAnnouncements • Sending Mail – Postfix
Posted on October 2, 2019 I have discovered that what happened is that last night I recompiled postfix in order to add a needed feature to make it work in some situations that previously it did not. I...
View ArticleAnnouncements • Sending Mail – An Update
Posted on October 2, 2019 Authentication was broken, that is now fixed. Sending mail will work from local shell servers, from web mail, but NOT from devices off of our local network with encryption. I...
View ArticleAnnouncements • FTP Server Firewall
Posted on October 3, 2019 At some point, Canonical, the folks behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution that we use on most of our servers, opted to move where firewalld looks for iptables,...
View ArticleAnnouncements • Server Reboots / Mail Lists / New Mail Server
Posted on October 4, 2019 I will be rebooting all Intel-based servers later this evening or very early Saturday morning (near midnight), in order to load new kernels that address yet another newly...
View ArticleAnnouncements • Mail Server Replacement
Posted on October 6, 2019 I am going to replace the existing Centos6 based system powering mail.eskimo.com with a brand new Ubuntu 19.10 based system. This brings with it immediately only some minor...
View ArticleAnnouncements • New Shell Server – centos8.yellow-snow.net
Posted on October 6, 2019 We have a new shell server available for your use. Centos8.yellow-snow.net. This is not available via the web yet but is available via “ssh centos8.yellow-snow.net” or X2go...
View ArticleAnnouncements • New Mail Server
Posted on October 6, 2019 Our client mail server, “mail.eskimo.com”, has been replaced with a newer server based upon Ubuntu 19.10. I am having difficulty getting smartlist to work right but not only...
View ArticleAnnouncements • Client Mail Server Status
Posted on October 9, 2019 I got part of but not all of what I had hoped to accomplish done tonight. Our client mail server is now chroot’d as are the incoming servers. Our client mail server now signs...
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