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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…
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 &…
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 …
From time to time it can happen that websites that used to be on your webservers are being moved by your clients without notifying you. Therefore, you will have to search for «zombie websites». I have the following setup: There is an Apache webserver that has a lot of websites. Each website has at least …
You might know the situation, something happened, and afterwards you get error messages from Cyrus telling you that your databases just have crashed. Then, your Inbox is shown empty while the filesystem does show the correct files. What happened? Every Cyrus folder contains three files «cyrus.cache», «cyrus.header» and «cyrus.index». These are responsible for telling the mail …
There are lots of howtos for running awstats with lighthttpd. Nearly all of them define a subdomain for statistics but miss to add the only line for defaulting to awstats.pl. Here is what you have to do to do it … Continue reading →
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