Author Archives: Direktion

Gentoo ebuild: Nginx With Support For Upstream Fair Proxy Load Balancer

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 … Continue reading

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dovecot: remove maildirs

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 more comfortable, I created this little script here: Continue reading

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Locate all Apple serial numbers in a subnet

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 a whole network of Macs, this can become very boring. … Continue reading

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SVN: search all repositories for file

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

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sslh: let https,ssh and openvpn share a single port

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 … Continue reading

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