Category Archives: Linux

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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tomcat on port 80

You might know the situation: You’d like to run tomcat from a privileged port, but the bloody thing just won’t start. Of course, it’s java-specific. Usually, a daemon gets its port from root. Not with Java. Your possibilities are therefore … Continue reading

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recursive md5 hashing with Linux

The problem: You need a md5sum of a directory. Unfortunately, md5sum just accepts files as input. The solution: Let’s use find! Okay. Here we go: find DIRECTORY -type f -exec md5sum ‘{}’ \; | md5sum – | awk ‘{print $1}’ … Continue reading

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icecast and awstats

Not much has yet been written about this topic and it really is no big deal but some sentences more would have made me feel more secure. Therefore, I tell what to do. We need icecast and awstats (definitely) and … Continue reading

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gentoo and kde4

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

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lighttpd and awstats

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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bringing awstats and mod_vhost_alias together

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