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Using Fetchmail to deliver to another SMTP host and user

If you want to fetch mail from several accounts and relay them to another SMTP host and user, you can use fetchmail. Define a .fetchmailrc like this: Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on December 14, 2009, at 16:12 | No comments

Preventing NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts

I often get the "NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts" on my webservers. It seems that every version of every distro has different requirements. My existing Debian config was fine, until I upgraded to Lenny. With fiddling, I determined the solution: Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on December 14, 2009, at 12:12 | No comments

Sending SMS notifications of md device failure

I just wrote a script to send sms from a unix machine and I thought it would be a good idea to add an sms notification to mdadm. Therefore I wrote this script, called handle-md-event.sh: Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on December 12, 2009, at 15:12 | 3 comments

Bash script for sending SMS using Mollie

I signed up for a Mollie account so that I can send SMS's from my machines. To do that, I needed a bash script, so I wrote one: Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on December 12, 2009, at 14:12 | No comments

LDAP search filter for Thunderbird and Zimbra

When configuring an LDAP addressbook, one thing that has given me a lot of trouble, is the LDAP filter. Here are two I use. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on December 10, 2009, at 21:12 | No comments

Debian network bridge setup for kvm/qemu

When you run virtual machines, the most convenient network setup is having a bridge between the virtual machine and your normal ethernet network. In Debian, I use the following config in /etc/network/interfaces to have such a bridge: Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on December 09, 2009, at 13:12 | No comments

Making sure virtual machine guests shut down properly on a Debian host

I just installed libvirt and installed a vritual machine with virt-install. I also used virsh to configure it to autostart on machine start. This way, it integrates quite nicely with the host operating system. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on December 09, 2009, at 12:12 | No comments

Dumping a bunch of MP3s as WAV files

I just used the following command for converting a directory with a bunch of MP3s to WAV. Does someone know a command that is shorter? I find mine a bit convoluted to say the least. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on December 06, 2009, at 22:12 | 1 comment

Adding a recycle bin to a samba share

People are stupid and remove things accidentally. You can partly mitigate that by adding recycle bin functionality to a samba share. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on November 23, 2009, at 16:11 | No comments

XTerm configuration

I just created a gist for my XTerm configuration (separated from the rest of my X resources). Here's a snapshot of the current version: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on November 18, 2009, at 16:11 | 5 comments