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Nginx is a powerful web server and therefore our choice. Unfortunately, the Gentoo ebuild is missing one essential extension: a load balancer that is querying the servers not via round robin but by their current load. Therefore, we had to extend the …
We are running dovecot as MDA. Dovecot gets its user details from OpenLDAP and adds new users automatically. But removing a user in LDAP does not mean it gets removed in Dovecot as well. To have this a little bit … Continue reading →
The command ioreg -l | grep IOPlatformSerialNumber will show you your Mac’s serial number. With this, you can find out when your Mac has been created if you enter this number to https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do For…
Say you have shell access to the SVN server of you desire which contains like a million repos. Say you are looking for a file but don’t know where it is, you can do the following: myfile=”FILE.NAME”; for dir in … Continue reading →
Introduction Maybe you know the situation: You successfully logged in to a corporate network and somehow you can’t reach your server. You check all possibilities and realize that some of the ports you desperately need to manage your daily life &#…
There are not many usable open source webmailer. We are running two: Squirrelmail and Roundcube. Besides that this can be really annoying when it comes to server-side filtering, this offers lots of benefits to our users. Some like it simple … Con…
Splitting a sql file containing a whole database into per-table files is quite easy: Grep the .sql for any occurence of DROP TABLE. Generate the file name from the table name that is included in the DROP TABLE statement. Echo … Continue reading &…
For years, we were using Squirrelmail as the default web mail client. Well, it would be a lie to say its design looks good but it offers a lot of functionality that nearly compensates the design deficits. The really basic functionalities … Conti…
On MeyerMillerSmith.com I recently posted this one: Typing ssh commands can be very annoying but it doesn’t has to. There’s a quite nice way to simplify your daily admin life: shell scripts. Okay, let’s say we have a dozen servers …
Recently we realized that proftpd misses several modules that are available but not included in the standard distribution. Therefore, we created an ebuild. As time was short today, we only included mod_dnsbl. In the near future, we will add more modules. The ebuild is available on our SVN repository: http://dev.informations-compagnie.de/svn/gentoo/net-ftp/proftpd/proftpd-1.3.2b-r1.ebuild. Please have a look at …