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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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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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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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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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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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