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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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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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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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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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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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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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