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GroupWise 2012 not receiving mail

This is a strange error!!! I updated my OES server Sunday with the latest patches, everything seemed to be running fine after the system rebooted.  I found out this morning the users were unable to send mail to Internet addresses, even though everyone was receiving mail. To explain the system in is a GroupWise 2012 running  on an OES2 SP3, SLES10 SP4 Linux box, with GWAVA for mail security.  I checked the system and it looked like everything should be working.  So I stared by restarting Continue reading

MySQL new install

Installed MySQL in a OES2 server this week, install went fine. YaST install was fast and seamless. Used the Linux client to setup the users and the databases, creating the databases and users was straight forward once the syntax was correct, thanks to google made finding the syntax fairly painless.
Once created this is where problem started, getting the users access to the databases for a workstation. Mostly this issue Continue reading