Archive for February, 2006
ldp, the _LDAP Distributed shell-Profile_ has been updated to version 0.6 with a number of bug fixes (including one very embarassing one). Go get it!
On OSNews is a pointer to a short tutorial entitled Develop your own filesystem with FUSE. FUSE is _Filesystem in Userspace_, a module with which a filesystem, probably any kind of file system, can be developed in a user space (contrary to kernel space) program. There is also a list of filesystems based on FUSE.
That [...]
I've written before about del.icio.us. It allows me to save, organize and tag bookmarks to Internet sites in such a way as that I can access them from any browser and wherever I may be located, as long as I have an Internet connection. No more remembering that I have to take a copy of [...]
For those who may not know, freshmeat.net is a huge repository of announcements for Open Source (and a few proprietary) programs. The main page carries the latest announcements. The site allows me to search for projects, keep track of submissions, etc., and it also makes these available via RSS. A typical submission entry looks like [...]
As a systems integrator, designer & part-time system administrator, some of my capital lies in configuration files I have created and tweaked to get one or the other package of software up and running. Be it OpenLDAP's slapd.conf for the LDAP directory servers, Exim's exim.cf or whatever I named it, or some magic with Apache [...]
Instead of flying to Venice, Italy for a short holiday, like I was scheduled to, I'm at home working. I've got quite a workload at the moment, so I suggested my family go, while I remain at home.
I purchased and read The Book of Postfix because I'm always interested in learning something new. This certainly is one _hell of a book_!
I'm an Exim guy myself, and I swear by the magic that Exim lets me do with a piece of mail. Ralf Hildebrandt and Patrick Koetter have certainly done a fabulous job [...]
ldp (LDAP distributed profile) will read a user-specific shell profile (.profile) from an LDAP directory server upon login, allowing users (including multiple people operating as _root_) to always have the same settings irrespective of which machine they are working on. ldp also operates correctly when logging in via SSH via public key auth.
Used properly, any [...]