While cleaning out some old papers, I came across a brief email from lhdadmin@datapower.com congratulating me on registering at the Linux Hardware Database. The email was dated July 4, 1999. Upon checking, the LHD is still active and anonymous reports of your computer hardware can be accomplished by installing the hw-probe script and running it as root, $ sudo urpmi hw-probe $ sudo -E hw-probe -all -upload This will generate the report and transmit the info to the LHD. Very simple. Very cool. For all the potential options, open /usr/bin/hw-probe in a text editor. RESOURCES Linux Hardware Database
In an earlier blog post, I described how to use mail with Mageia Linux to send system messages to your Google Mail account . At the time, sendmail was the default MTA (mail transfer agent) of choice and was overkill for what was needed for a simple messaging of security status ( from msec ). It still works. By Mageia 8, postfix became the default MTA, so it seems it would be easier to configure postfix to use the Google Mail smtp relay server. Postfix and all necessary dependencies are installed by Mageia by default. Mageia builds their RPM of postfix with specific options, which are: Smtpd multiline greeting: --%{with_TXT multiline} Virtual Delivery Agent: --%{with_TXT VDA} Munge bare CR: --%{with_TXT barecr} TLS support: --%{with_TXT tls} IPV6 support: --%{with_TXT ipv6} CDB support: --%{with_TXT cdb} Chroot by default: --%{with_TXT chroot} If you need other options for some other purpose, you can rebuild the source RPM (which is beyond the scope of this post). It is necess