I own a Synology DS211j. As i wanted to use an alternative DHCP mechanism to support custom nameservers i ran into the Synology DHCP Server package, straight-forward and easy to use. Additionally i’ve the Synology firewall configured to deal with a few ports that are opened to the Internet. This quick howto gives you tips on how [...]
Zabbix 1.8.6 has been released on August 4th. Within this relase several new features have been added and even more improvements are implemented: On-demand reload of configuration cache Added ability to force configuration cache reload of a running server and proxy, which, in the case of active proxy, will also force config re-read from the [...]
See this howto to get access to your shell (over SSL) without a password. This howto generates a certificate which is imported at both local and remote profile. See http://wouter.borremans.nl/howto-ssh-login-without-password/
In some cases it may come in quite handy to empty your mail queue’s right away, this script which executes at your prompt clears (deltes) the messages which are in the queue. See this http://wouter.borremans.nl/computer-related/how-to/empty-postfix-mail-queue/
Another small howto: rsync two (remote) folders See: http://wouter.borremans.nl/computer-related/how-to/rsync-two-remote-folders/
I’ve added another quick how to on how to hide your user input while asking for a password fromout Bash. See http://wouter.borremans.nl/computer-related/how-to/bash-scripting-password-hiding/
This is a quick howto to enable you to relay all your Postfix mailtraffic to either your ISP’s SMTP gateway or to forward your outgoing mail to a corporate centralized gateway. This can even be done on a non standard SMTP port. See http://wouter.borremans.nl/computer-related/how-to/postfix-mailrelay-howto/
As of today Zabbix 1.8.5 has been released offering new interesting features and fixes of bugs: New trigger functionality Zabbix performance monitoring Download Zabbix here.
As of today my websites are hosted fromout a cloud environment at OVH. I was interested in what way cloud computing could offer me cost savings and flexibility. I will test the current environment for a few weeks to see if it can offer the same performance- and uptime characteristics as my local VMWare ESXi [...]
I’ve added a quick howto on how to fix a PATH_MAX error during compilation, please refer to the following page: http://wouter.borremans.nl/computer-related/how-to/make-error-path_max-not-in-a-function/
