Tag Archives: Software

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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Locate all Apple serial numbers in a subnet

The command ioreg -l | grep IOPlatformSerialNumber will show you your Mac’s serial number. With this, you can find out when your Mac has been created if you enter this number to https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do For a whole network of Macs, this can become very boring. … 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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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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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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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

<!– @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } H1 { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } H1.western { font-family: “Albany”; font-size: 16pt } H1.cjk { font-family: “HG Mincho Light J”; font-size: 16pt } H1.ctl { font-family: “Lucidasans”; … Continue reading

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