{"id":102,"date":"2004-12-31T16:47:54","date_gmt":"2004-12-31T16:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=102"},"modified":"2004-12-31T16:47:54","modified_gmt":"2004-12-31T16:47:54","slug":"why_cant_this_be_easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Why can&#8217;t this be easy?!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-1104533264.72-0.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>I run a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\/\">Debian<\/a> box at home.  It runs a web\/mail\/file server.  I have been having problems with sendmail.  Well, today, I have finally become tired of hacking sendmail to get it barely running each time I upgrade it.  I reinstalled Debian.  I copy some important configuration files over from my backup.  I switch to using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exim.org\/\">Exim<\/a>.  Is it quick and seamless?  No!!!  But I think I finally have it running.  I hope.  We&#8217;ll see&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Well.  I woke up on New Year&#8217;s Day and was greeted with a dead system.  On the console window I found disk I\/O error messages.  Argh!  So, I broke open a spare 60 gig hard drive and installed Debian from scratch.  After that task, I shutdown and plugged the old drive back in as a slave.  I then booted up and checked to see if my data was still there.  Fortunately, it was and I copied it all off.<\/p>\n<p>My system is back up and running.  I will see if it holds up.  The only good thing about this experience is that I have documented exactly what changes need to be done to convert a fresh install into my configuration.  I have already learned to perform backups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I run a Debian box at home. It runs a web\/mail\/file server. I have been having problems with sendmail. Well, today, I have finally become tired of hacking sendmail to get it barely running each time I upgrade it. I reinstalled Debian. I copy some important configuration files over from my backup. I switch to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phone-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}