Need to send email from Solaris box? It’s very easy…

Just configure SMTP server on

/etc/mail/sendmail.cf

or

/etc/mail/local.cf

depend on your sendmail conf will be use. And then edit DS part into DS[your smtp hotname or IP] like

DS192.168.1.1

*without space*

After that restart sendmail service using command :

svcadm restart sendmail

Now we can use mailx…

echo "This is test email" | mailx -s "Test Email" test@test.com

or

cat file_name | mailx -s "Test Email" test@test.com

Wew… Stay on data center until the next day on Ramadhan really fascinating for me even it’s need more patient.

My task is to migrating Oracle BIEE server from RedHat AS 4 platform into Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 on Sun X4600 machine(with another added tasks as usual off course ) with one of my colleague. Changing bad disk from Sun X4500 server, which consist of 48 disks over there. Just a note from me, even Sun x86 server’s can be installed with Windows platform it need additional things to do. You need a floopy drive… yes that’s really surprise me, what the hell is this we need primitive technology to install this. It just to recognize the SAS drives. Some folks on internet said we can use nLite but haven’t tried that solution yet. Anyway I break my fasting with only 3 dates and small bread without any drink at all (take real food 3 hours later after changing the disk) caused no food mart or any groceries store open nearby. After creating RAID and format the disks (this is done by my colleague actually) installing the OS are very easy just same with the gimmick that says “Just click next.. next.. and next..”. I also create some script on other machine to monitoring some running process , re-run the process if was being killed, logs and send it by email to everybody needed (unix shell script is awesomely useful for many things). After configured SMTP on 2 machine I try my scripts and it works, rocks dude, now no need to check the process manually just see emails and log on to machine if we see errors notification. After done with 3 tasks now installing the Oracle BIEE part which is very easy loooool. Done all task at 4 AM I guess, call taxi and go back to home. Phew, just reach home before “sahur” ends.

Bad things come in the morning, I got office call regarding to my tasks… It’s time connect to the machine now…. Damn, cannot connect using 3G … what happen… I just pay my bill 3 days ago and still far away from my credit limit… Tried to call call center and I got crazy notification “Your cannot make a call caused insufficient balance…” What….!!!! Something wrong here right now… Just rushing go to customer service nearby to fix this… 2 hours wasting my time and got so many calls from office to fix something *sigh*

Got another bad thing again…  to many active connection on server, cannot log on… hiks..hiks…