This year, for my birthday I have a very nice Media Player M3100. This stuff is really usefull, no need to use a noisy computer to watch recorded Divx. It’s pretty kool to watch films from beds you know.. The … Continue reading
tag: diy, dvico, firewall, openwrt, rs232, sysadmin, WifiWhile running my access point in public mode, i want to know when people log in. This can be a good way to find intruders too, but not my purpose. I decided to run arpwatch on my linksys access point, … Continue reading
tag: Network, openwrt, sysadmin, wrtTcpdump is clearly one of my favorite tool. Here a little example to filter the traffic of my OSPF router. tcpdump -i eth0 ip[9] == 89 And the result: 12:43:48.219432 IP p2b.soif.fr > OSPF-ALL.MCAST.NET: OSPFv2, Hello (1), length: 48 12:43:48.560817 … Continue reading
tag: Network, sysadminIn a recent post Ian explain he get a lot of trouble w/ the configuration of his mail system. I ran into the same issues a little time ago. Now i’m using postfix and courier-imap and maildrop to dispatch the … Continue reading
tag: mail, Python, spam, sysadminThe thing every blogger likes: Comments ? No ? Really ? Anyways, i just added a RSS comment Feed to this blog. (No I won’t put the url somewhere since NewsAggregators eat a bunch of bandwith only to see nobody … Continue reading
tag: imap, mail, mutt, sysadminI’m using spambayes for a long time now. But when i decide to install it for all the curent users of my setup (w/ some virtual domains..), i just discover that spambayes don’t have a system-wide deamon like spamassasin (spamd). … Continue reading
tag: bayesian, mail, Python, server, spam, sysadminSince i totally switched my mail system to imap, i’m looking for a way to keep the folders ‘small as possible’. I talked w/ Phil about this, and he (http://base-art.net/wk/Article/3.html) hacked a existing python script. The main difference between his … Continue reading
tag: mail, Python, sysadminI spent part of the day to install a virtual mail server, and i discover that there is a really simple way to secure courier-imap. By defaut when you use this kind of server the auth is made against the … Continue reading
tag: imap, mail, sysadminI get it! I managed to use mutt w/ my imap folders, with hooks and everything fine. This is not really hard, but : libsas-modules break the SSL certification (without any error message) mutt really lack of header cache for … Continue reading
tag: imap, mail, sysadminPam_USB is a pam_module that allow you to log in w/ a usb-key (or a cdrom/ floppy .. any removable device w/ a serial number or a free space to hold DSA keys.) This is pretty kool since, this kind … Continue reading
tag: linux, security, sysadmin