> Friends,
>
> My QmailToaster has been running happily for months.
>
> I was wondering if there were any regular maintenece things that one
> should be doing to keep it happy.
> Are there any Dir that might wish to be emptied? Logs that should be
> pruned?
> anything like that. - Also I am running on Centos4 - I have not done the
> updates on the OS because - well,
> it has been working and I do not wish to break it.
> Is it safe to do the OS updates ?
>
> Are there any " best" practices for keeping it going?
>
Not really. The logs will autorotate, and any dirs that need to be emptied
are already doing that. Pretty much forget about it.
I personally move my logs off-site so I can keep long-term logs (I think
the logs get deleted after 30 days), and I manually perform a yum update
once a month - I do it manually so I can see what is being updated and
make notes but that's mainly for development purposes.
As far as the Toaster packages - unless there's a security update or you
NEED one of the new features, I'd suggest leaving it alone. Most of mine
are a few versions out of current, but I'm an avid believer in "if it's
not broke, don't break it." I have a client that did a firmware upgrade on
an IBM eServer that went badly - cost them the whole machine (IBM wanted
$800 to fix it on-site, $900 for a new MB, or I replaced it with a generic
P4 server for $600) and when the IT guy was asked why he tried to update
the BIOS said "because there was a newer version".
Oh, the only thing I do on a weekly basis is check the HD free space to
make sure everything is alright.
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