Upgrading a mail server from Debian Wheezy (7) to Debian Jessie (8), the following errors were observed in the mail.error log: dovecot: master: Error: systemd listens on port 143, but it’s not configured in Dovecot. Closing. dovecot: master: Error: systemd listens on port 993, but it’s not configured in Dovecot. Closing Looking for solutions, I […]
I was recently asked for a way to do this, and since I figured more people might like to know, here’s how: Go to Tools => Web Developer => Developer Toolbar (check it), or simply press Shift+F2, then at the command line that appears in the bottom of the browser window, type “screenshot –fullpage” followed […]
noah.org has an excellent writeup on this. Link here, archive here.
I recently had some issues with a flaky VPN service. I wanted to make a little script I could run on a different machine that would restart the VPN connection, should it break. This particular VPN connection included a DNS service for the remote .local-domain, which I decided to use for testing, but you could […]
Just learned something neat: In XChat, if you hold ctrl and shift, and then press “u”, followed by “a”, you get a weird character that signifies a line break. This can be used to put several commands on one line in the configuration, or to type several lines before spamming them all at once into […]
This works on a Norwegian keyboard, but may apply to others. So, your terminal says something like: Connected to foo Escape character is ^] So, ] is easily typed using “Alt Gr + 9” on my keyboard, but “Ctrl + Alt Gr + 9” does not produce an escape character. However, “Ctrl + 5” does, […]
When configured to send all mail through a smarthost, exim4 on Debian will not respect your /etc/aliases file, nor will it care about your users’ ~/.forward files. This is due to the numbering, and consequently the sorting, of the files in /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/. If you look at 200_exim4-config_primary, you’ll see it handles smarthost routing in smarthost […]
sshfs is a neat way of mounting a file system from one machine to another over an encrypted ssh channel. However, for machine CLIENT to access a file system that resides on machine HOST, CLIENT must generally be able to log in to HOST. In addition, CLIENT must be able to connect to HOST in […]
It seems VMware has removed the GUI for the disk shrink feature in VMware Tools, but the good news is it’s still available from the console. The following command will shrink the disk image for drive C: “C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\VMwareToolboxCmd.exe” disk shrink c:\
The simplest way I’ve found so far: Edit /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart to append: @xset -s off @xset -dpkm @xset s noblank