sysadmin

This post originated on a question from a colleague about how to make your services restart automatically upon automated certificate rotation and replacement.

Recently I encountered a problem with mounting NFS filesystems at boot. In my case – and that of a few people who have asked related questions at various fora – the issue had to do with boot dependencies and race conditions. In this post I am explaining my issue and how I resolved it.

This is a quick post documenting the most recent Sendmail setup that I’m testing for a project. It differs slightly from my typical setup on Debian systems, so I’m documenting it here mostly for the sake of keeping notes.