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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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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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creating apache vhosts with style

We decided to have a reverse domain name structure that conatains (beside the htdocs) all vhost-related information like logs, stats and config. The reverse structure is neccessary to get an quick overview not about the subdomains but the domains. Additionally, … 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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ATI SB600 and gentoo

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 everything worked just fine. Here I read that there … Continue reading

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