Category: Linux Tips


  • I recently had to configure a Linux machine to require SMTP AUTH so that we could test a new product at Codonics. So I wanted to provide a little guidance and some insight that I gained while working on this task. The requirement was “basic” SMTP AUTH… so PLAIN/LOGIN functionality, no need for TLS, and…

  • I had another friend get bitten by this *feature*, and felt it was worthy of a note on this site. : “Note for Perl 5.8 Users (incl Red Hat 8) Redhat 8 and 9 changed the default LANG to something with utf8 and this causes all kinds of problems with installing various modules and software.…