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Slackware guest on Linux-VServer

Info: http://linux-vserver.org/ What is Linux-Vserver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-VServer Download only my patch: /files/linux-vserver/linux-vserver_slackware-14.2.patch Download my patch and installer script: /files/linux-vserver/slack_vserver.tar.gz NEW: patch and installer script for current@03.07.2021 (testing) Linux-Vserver is an open source software which acts as a virtual private server implementation done by adding operating system-level virtualization capabilities...

Dovecot vpopmail-auth driver removal. Migrating to the SQL driver

Those who are still using the Dovecot's vpopmail auth driver should consider a migration to another backend, as on January 4, 2021 dovecot-2.3.13 was released and the vpopmail auth driver removed (more info here). I'll show below how to support domain aliases...

Migrating from Linux-VServer to LXC (Slackware)

Tired of the nightmares of remotely compiling the kernel with Linux-VServer, a software that I'm pleased with despite of some lack of documentation, these days I was playing with LXC, which is included and supported by Slackware and for which the Linux...

Running OpenBoard in a window

OpenBoard home page Download my patch Github discussion Slackbuild (Slackware users) These days I'm forced again to do lessons from remote. My school asked me to refer to Google Meet for the videoconferences and one thing I disliked was the Jam interactive whiteboard, which is...

Building your own mozilla-sync-1.1 server

NB: DOES NOT WORK WITH FIREFOX 29 AND LATER More info:  http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/setting-up-your-own-mozilla-sync-server/ (for Slackware users) http://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync.html File synchronization (or syncing) in computing is the process of ensuring that computer files in two or more locations are updated via certain rules. In one-way file synchronization, also called...

How to backup a server with rsync via ssh login without password

Rsync is a fast and extraordinarily versatile file copying tool.  It can copy locally, to/from another host over any remote shell, or to/from a remote rsync daemon.It offers a large number of options that control every aspect of its behavior and...

Running two php/mysql/mariadb versions on the same apache web server

In a web server  very old applications must coexist with new ones. Usually old applications are no more mantained and still require old versions of php and mysql, while recent apps claim to use the latest features of your apache, php...

Setting up Tex on Mediawiki (Slackware)

Texvc allows to insert Tex formulas into your page dinamically creating PNG images for you. This note tries to remaind the required packages and the main steps to follow to have Tex working inside a MediaWiki and a Slackware OS. At the...

SEO friendly URLs with apache mod_rewrite

I assume that the reader is familiar with the "SEO friendly URLs" concept. If not you can start reading these: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=76329 At the cost of beating my own drum, I will consider a real case: http://wildzone.it. It is an image gallery where the...