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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 →
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 &#…
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 …
# Any random options you want to pass to sshd. # See the sshd(8) manpage for more info. SSHD_OPTS=”” # Pid file to use (needs to be absolute path). SSHD_PIDFILE=”/var/run/sshd2.pid” # Path to the sshd binary (needs to be absolute path). SSHD_BINARY=”/usr/sbin/sshd2″ Although there are many ways workarounding the lack of security with ye olde FTP, there …
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 …
We finally managed to release a package for the (currently) recent version of Best Practical’s Request Racker (rt). We added it to our layman / portage overlay. see the following article for information on how to add it to your portage tree. Additional Notes:
There are several packages which are masked at the moment. We …
Gentoo has, is and will be the distribution of our choice. As it is with every love, nothing is perfect. So is Gentoo. We missed the recent packages for Bestpractical’s Request Tracker. Therefore, we created our own Layman overlay. That’s a thing we were thinking of for a long time and now there was …
As it is written in the package information, KDE4 still is masked. Those who cannot wait (like us) have to face a long and struggling road. To ease things up a little bit, we hacked some shell-aid. Like this: while … Continue reading →
I managed to build a working kernel for ATI’s SB600 chipset under gentoo 2007.0 hardened. I tried to use =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r3 but the bloody thing wouldn’t boot. So I emerged =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.24_rc7 and everyt…