Tag Archives: gentoo

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

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Direktion

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 →

Posted in howto, Linux, Software, Webserver | Tagged ebuild, gentoo, howto, Linux, nginx, overlay, portage, server, Webserver | Leave a comment

dovecot: remove maildirs

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Direktion

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 →

Posted in howto, Linux, Mailserver | Tagged bashscript, code, dovecot, gentoo, grep example, howto, imap, ldap, Linux, mda, openldap, pop3, Software | Leave a comment

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

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Direktion

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 →

Posted in howto, Linux, Software | Tagged gentoo, howto, https, multiplex, openssh, openvpn, sslh | Leave a comment

ProFTPD with mod_dnsbl as gentoo ebuild

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Marcus Pauli

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 →

Posted in Linux, Software, Verschiedenes | Tagged blacklist, dnsbl, ftp, gentoo, Linux, mod_dnsbl, overlay, portage, proftp, proftpd, security, server, setup, spamhaus | Leave a comment

SFTP only and SSH only OpenSSH system with gentoo

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Marcus Pauli

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 →

Posted in howto, Linux, Software | Tagged chroot, gentoo, howto, jail, Linux, openssh, scp, server, setup, sftp | 2 Comments

rebuilding Cyrus indexes

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Marcus Pauli

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 →

Posted in howto, Linux, Mailserver, Software | Tagged code, cyrus, gentoo, howto, imap, index, indexes, layman, overlay, portage, recover, rescue, Software | Leave a comment

Request Tracker 3.8.2 on gentoo

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Marcus Pauli

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 →

Posted in allgemein, Linux, Software, Webserver | Tagged gentoo, layman, overlay, portage, request tracker, rt | Leave a comment

our own gentoo portage overlay

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Marcus Pauli

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 →

Posted in Linux, Software | Tagged gentoo, layman, overlay, portage | 1 Comment

gentoo and kde4

Posted on March 31, 2008 by Marcus Pauli

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 →

Posted in howto, Linux, Software | Tagged gentoo, Software | 1 Comment

ATI SB600 and gentoo

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Marcus Pauli

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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