Author Archives: Marcus Pauli

If Your Squirrel Won’t Keep The House Clean

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 … Continue reading

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Howto split a SQL database dump into table-wise files

sql files containing a single database 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 … Continue reading

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from Squirrel to Crystal

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 … Continue reading

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simplify your daily ssh usage… even more…

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 … Continue reading

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ProFTPD with mod_dnsbl as gentoo ebuild

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 … Continue reading

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find out if your Apache is really serving the right hosts

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 … Continue reading

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SFTP only and SSH only OpenSSH system with gentoo

Although there are many ways workarounding the lack of security with ye olde FTP, there is a quite handy solution: use OpenSSH via SCP/SFTP to handle the file transfers. There are many solutions which all try to restrict the access … Continue reading

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rebuilding Cyrus indexes

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 … Continue reading

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Request Tracker 3.8.2 on gentoo

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 … Continue reading

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our own gentoo portage overlay

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 … Continue reading

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