Linux

Make your blogs RSS feed mobile phone friendly

By using the Google Reader you can make your RSS feed mobile/cellular phone friendly and easy to read. All you need to do is add you RSS feed address to the end of this address http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/[you RSS feed address] Example http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed//feed/ Result The RSS feed links are clickable and you can continue reading them in […]

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chkrootkit: false positive on port 465

On my Debian Etch server I’ve got Zimbra Open Source Edition mail solution installed and when I use chkrootkit to scan for rootkits it reports the following Checking `bindshell’… INFECTED (PORTS: 465) After a quick research I realized that this port 465 is SMTP over SSL on a Zimbra installation. Further investigation reveals that port […]

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Alias root mail to an Zimbra account

To receive root mail from the server I’ve had to make a change in the /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.4.3.4z/conf/aliases file. Uncomment the following line root: user@example.com The postfix daemon have to reread it’s config files before this change is recognized. Do the following as zimbra user /opt/zimbra/bin/postfix reload

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Thunderbird: Check all IMAP folders for new mail

This is a little trick to make the Thunderbird e-mail client check all folders for new mail without activating the “Check this folder for new messages” manually on all my folders. This is useful since I have my e-mail filters run on the server using procmail. Add the following line to your user.js (create the […]

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Upgrade from Debian Etch to Debian Lenny

To upgrade a Debian Etch (stable) installation to testing Debian Lenny (unstable), you can do the following steps Edit sources.list sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list change all occurences of the word etch for lenny, or stable for testing Do the update and upgrade sudo apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade That is all that is needed to upgrade […]

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