The Roundcube version (0.3.1) in Debian Squeeze is just too outdated. To create a new Debian package, using the latest version of Roundcube, is fairly easy. Download the latest source (currently 0.8.1) from http://www.roundcube.net/download, and put the TAR image (roundcubemail-0.8.1.tar.gz) … Continue reading
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One way to secure your MySQL backups, is to encrypt the backup file using PGP/GnuPG. Of course you will need to own a PGP/GnuPG private key, which can be easily created using the PGP/GnuPG tools. On a Debian/Ubuntu Linux host, … Continue reading
It can happen that a VMWare virtual machine (VM) runs out of space after a certain amount of time. If the installed Debian Linux (actually any kind of Linux) has been set up with LVM, resizing the partition is fairly … Continue reading
When you are not using Debian unstable or some kind of Linux distro that hasn’t got the latest version of the dmesg command, you will not be able to execute ‘ dmesg -T’ to see human readable timestamp in the output. A … Continue reading
I’ve answered a question on StackOverflow (actually on SuperUser) regarding Finder and Samba shares on Ubuntu Linux. It’s only Ubuntu which has this problem, Finder works perfect with Samba when that Samba is installed on Debian, CentOS, … http://superuser.com/questions/283863/force-finder-to-log-in-as-guest-to-a-smb-share/300382#300382 … Continue reading
Recently I have been asked to write a Syslog event generator, but not just a normal syslog generator, it had to be able to generate events coming from different hosts. The normal ‘logger’ command sends Syslog messages using the machine’s … Continue reading
Introduction OpenVPN is an opensource Virtual Private Networking (VPN) solution which can be downloaded freely on the Internet. It also included in almost every Linux distro to-date, so it can be easily installed using your distro’s favourite package manager tools. … Continue reading
On Debian based distributions, a handy tool called dh-make-perl can be installed to ease the installation of CPAN Perl modules on the system. This tool will create a Debian package of the CPAN module, and can also install this package … Continue reading
This Perl script was initially written about 3 or 4 years ago, but still does its daily job: monitor that certain processes are running and if not, restart them (plus send out a notification). The script should run as the … Continue reading