Emil CHERICHES

Emil CHERICHES

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Error: Can’t open display: localhost:10.0

February 4, 2015February 4, 2015 Emil C 1 Comment

I use X Forwarging over SSH for several things to manage, such as virtual machines with “virt-manager”. Today, when I wanted to run a graphical tool on one of the servers I kept getting this error. Error: Can’t open display: […]

Tips & Tricks linux, ssh

Quick TIP: Postfix Reverse lookup

October 31, 2014January 29, 2015 Emil C No Comments

When your maillog on a CentOS/*EL machine looks like this: mail postfix/smtpd[19345]: connect from unknown[XXX.YYY.ZZZ.QQQ]

Tips & Tricks CentOS, Postfix

follow the logs

August 29, 2014August 29, 2014 Emil C No Comments

Well, on a high-traffic mail server we need to follow the server log, to look for possible issues. The “tail -f” method might just not be as good as we would want, text is going up too fast and web […]

Tips & Tricks Postfix

Per site custom CSS

August 7, 2014 Emil C No Comments

Let’s say you’re on a news website for instance bbc.co.uk, that you read a lot, but each time you look on the website you can’t tell if you already visited that portion of the website or not. Let’s say you […]

Tips & Tricks Chrome, CSS, Firefox

MySQL requires maintenance

May 4, 2014May 4, 2014 Emil C No Comments

Even if you’re running on a tiny VPS or on a huge server when you have a LAMP stack your biggest memory consumer will probably be MySQL. Some even prefer running it on a different machine when it comes to […]

Tips & Tricks MySQL

modern days aliases

February 11, 2014 Emil C No Comments

Asuming we have on a mail server(that hosts domain1.com) some external aliases, like user1@domain1.com has an alias for user1@domain2.com, which is hosted on a different server, probably on a different mail provider. Typically when a mail is sent to user1@domain1.com, […]

Tips & Tricks Postfix

Use wheezy-backports and set it as default

January 4, 2014January 4, 2014 Emil C No Comments

Because Debian Linux distro has it’s way of testing packages before they end up in the stable version, these packages might be sometimes outdated or you just wand to benefit from the newest functionalities for some packages. Debian Backports is […]

Tips & Tricks backports, debian

OpenVPN and Android

October 28, 2013October 28, 2013 Emil C 4 Comments

To be honest I use OpenVPN quite rarely on my Android tablet, and it happens only when I need to access certain locations that tie me to a certain IP address. This type of connection could be more often used […]

Tips & Tricks Android, OpenVPN

TIP: Make Postfix use less SQL connections

August 9, 2013 Emil C No Comments

When you manage Postfix mail servers using SQL connections to find informations about usernames, mailbox/maildir locations on the disk you probably have in your main.cf something like : virtual_alias_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf virtual_mailbox_domains = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_domains_maps.cf virtual_mailbox_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_mailbox_maps.cf relay_domains = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_relay_domains_maps.cf […]

Tips & Tricks MySQL, Postfix

Tip: Assuring users can’t read each others files

March 15, 2013 Emil C No Comments

On a Debian or Ubuntu system, we need to make sure that when a new user is created it’s files are not generally available for reading to other non-root users. By default home folders are created with 0755 permissions (readable […]

Tips & Tricks debian, ubuntu

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