Morning Sleep Report.

Well, I is awake again. It took me until nearly 2:00 am to fall back asleep, but I decided to leave my alarm set at 6:00 am anyway. This means that I had a total of about 10 hours sleep last night, but since it wasn't all together, it doesn't feel like it. (I've never figured out why, but if I sleep for 6 hours, am awake for 4 and sleep for another 6, my body insists I've only had six hours sleep the night before. Why can't it ADD????).

So, I don't know how awake I'll be today, but I REALLY didn't want to have my hours rotate further so that I never got to the point where I was getting up in the morning and getting things done. And who knows, I feel more like I've had 7 hours sleep this morning, rather than 4, so I may even manage to wake up enough to get some real work done today. We'll see.

Mail Woes

Does anyone out there know how to debug a buggy postfix configuration? I ask because I am trying to get our web server to also be a mail server and the default configuration doesn't work. I've done some googling for Linux manuals on mail systems but most of them say insipid things like 'it just works'. This is useless info, since a) it doesn't just work and b) there are things I need to do to set things up that clearly AREN'T going to just work. For example, how to I set up a recieve-mail alias for postmaster, since there is no account by that name???

Grumph.

(Oh, the immediate problem I have, I should say, is that any attempt to use 'mail' to send mail to my user name on the system results in a postdrop error saying 'unable to look up public/pickup: no such file or directory'.  There are postfix docs that I've found, but they are both huge and arcane.)

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Addendum: It turns out that the Postfix wasn't being started. Now all I have to do is read all those arcane docs to figure out how to configure it. Whoopee

Bon Voyage

I'm just posting to wish _sps_ a
Bon Voyage!
on his vacation that starts today. He should be heading to the airport now, even as I post.