SFS Update
A tool for phpbb forum administrators Hi 10 months ago, I started hosting a friend's phpbb forum. Of course, I'm the administrator of the technical side of the forum 6 months ago, in order to try to...
View ArticleSFS Update 0.1.1
A little upgrade Hi. Here is a new minor version of SFS Update, which is now in version 0.1.1. It appears that I wanted to stop using grep in order to remove a requirement and to make this tool faster....
View ArticleSFS Update 0.1.3
Two new features Hi For reminder, SFS Update is a bash script which synchronises the "banlist" and the "disallow" tables of a PHPBB 2.x forum with the file provided by the stopforumspam website. The...
View ArticleSFS Update 0.1.4
A new version with plenty of new developments. Hi. After an update last week, SFS Update continue to evolve and now has his version 0.1.4 released, with a good changelog. This is the version which has...
View ArticleSFS Update comes back with a 0.2 version
And the 0.3 is announced. Hi A new version of this useful little shell script. The major new feature is the support of phpbb 3 forums (the connect strings evolves to set the forum engine used) It...
View ArticleSFS Update 0.3pre : a sneak peek of the 0.3
Hi. Few weeks ago, SFS Update 0.2 was released, with some promises for the 0.3. In order to contain your impatience and to show what the 0.3 will look like, I decided to release a preliminary version...
View ArticleThe ultimate Debian/Ubuntu package building system
Here is a "small" article which crosses the border between personal stuff and work but may be useful for many people. In my current job, making Debian and Ubuntu packages takes me a lot of time. At...
View ArticleOWFS : Debian and Ubuntu packages
Hello. OWFS is a free software suite, licensed under GPL. It's an easy and reliable way to use the 1-wire system from Maxim, which controls a widespread range of devices (sensors for temperature,...
View ArticleSome news
Hi. After few months of inactivity, there's some news. So you might see it now, I wrote a new template for this website, less colored, more readable. Then, the Debian/Ubuntu repositories I'm...
View ArticlePbuilder and tmpfs can be friends
A way to speed up Debian/Ubuntu package builds using pbuilder. Hi everybody. After the last article about the installation of the package building machine, I was still hacking and searching around this...
View ArticleBackports and some moments of joy
Good evening everybody. A month after proposing the backport to Debian Squeeze of audacious 2.4.4, when I was starting to think it won't be accepted in the backports, I received 3 mails from Kilian...
View ArticleDebian/Ubuntu package building using virtual machines
Hi. As you know, I often work on Debian package building. For some months now, the DDB provides packages for others architecures (powerpc and mips). For the basic architectures (amd64, i386 and...
View ArticleThruk + NGINX + authentication
Sometimes, when one line is missing, the whole system seems broken. Hello. As you know it, I use NGINX on a daily basis. And yesterday evening, I worked on installing NGINX on the last server which...
View ArticleMy pbuilderrc using qemu-debootstrap
Hello everybody. First, I'm sorry for this late translation. I had a quite bad and busy period of time, so I was unable to take time to perform this translation. As you are already aware of, Debian...
View ArticleDDB lenny-backports discontinued
Hello everybody. As Debian discontinued the support of the 5.0 "Lenny" release, I decided to do so in the DDB. I will continue to maintain the squeeze-backports, and lenny-backports will be moved into...
View ArticleDebian Wheezy has been frozen
And it's the first time I actually live a Debian freeze. Hello. Yesterday evening, automatic migrations of packages from Unstable to Testing were stopped. Only packages waiting to be migrated from...
View ArticleIncorporate a file in another with AWK
Hello. Recently, I had to replace a string of characters by a text file content. Example : I want to replace "##__youpi_tralala__##" by the content of the text file called "youpi_tralala". I tried...
View ArticleUse XZ with logrotate
Hello.XZ is a compression format which I like to use, mostly for its good results when compressing text files. And I was seeking to use it with logrotate.And it's done now with these 3 lines added in...
View ArticleImapsync
Hello.A quick article about imapsync, a great tool when we need to move emails from server to another.This tool has switched license and it costs 50€ now. The developer asked the Debian project to...
View ArticleZimbra mailbox backup script
Hello.Over the last 2 weeks, I tried a Zimbra Collaboration Suite (Open Source Edition). And before going into production mode, I wanted to perform some mailbox backup/restore tests.After some...
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