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Auto create home dirs with Samba

If you’re using Samba to provide network shares to your users, it might be usefull to autmatically create the their homedir when they access it the first time. This can be done by adding this line to the [homes] directive :

Thesis : anti spam by MTA selection

I’m publishing the Thesis that I and my fellow student Joost Ringoot made for our Graduate training in evening school. It might be useful to someone.

Projectwerk_2008_AntiSpam

Slow DNS resolving

The other day one of our internal DNS needed to be shut down for maintenance. During that time people complained about slow responsiveness of the applications running on our RHEL machines. Because the DNS maintenance was the only change we made at that time we started looking in that direction.

Keep VPN Connection alive

Recently i had a VPN connection with OpenSwan that didn’t stay alive. Adding the following option to the config fixed it

dpdaction=restart

Wordpress on LightTPD

I’m running this blog on LightTPD now. It runs a lot faster now on my 64MB VPS.