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Qnap re-launch process smbd and stunnel

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While setting up a QNAP NAS server, I cam across an unusual problem.

Apparently its quite common to have the server generate warnings that say:

  • Re-launch process [smbd]
  • Re-launch process [stunnel]

This happens every minute, so it makes it difficult to monitor for “real” problems.

At first, I decided to just re-install the firmware, and that got rid of the warnings until I restored the configuration backup file… then it was generating the usual of warnings again.

I didn’t want to re-enter all the settings manually, so I tried deleting and re-created the RAID system (didn’t help)

I saw a brief mention on a forum, that a bad RAID setup can cause these errors.

So I tried the following:

  • Restore to factory defaults
  • Initialise the drives (and wait until the initialisation is complete… it can take hours)
  • retore configuration backup file

That worked!

It looks like I might have done some important configuration changes while the drives were initialising… I guess patience is the key in this case!

spambayes helps eliminate email spam

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In my fight against email spam, I have tried my hosting company’s spamassassin, gmail, but some spam still gets through.

I’ve now tried spambayes, and I find it works well. http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

The main problem I had was getting my email client to talk to spambayes, and then gmail (spambayes doesn’t support gmail-level pop security (yet?).

I found a great workaround by following: http://www.engelassociates.net/email.html (and using stunnel).

Although gmail seems to catch the vast majority of my spam, spambayes adds a nice extra layer, for the spam that slips past gmail.