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...
e-mail indexing with Solr FTS Engine
Solr is a Lucene indexing server. Dovecot communicates to it using HTTP/XML queries. With this indexing server, you can do text searches in your emails. Download latest version: v. 9.10.1 Solr documentation page Solr FTS Engine documentation page for Dovecot Configuring the FTS plugin in dovecot Changelog Feb 8, 2026- upgraded to v 9.10.1 Mar...
Wrapper scripts for LXC unprivileged containers
Index Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Basic configuration files Part 3: Creating an unprivileged container on Slackware Part 4: Scripts overview Part 5: Natting example Part 6: Migrating to Slackware-current - LXC-7 - cgroup2 Browse the scripts' folder Changelog A common use of the LXC containers is to isolate services like...
Converting a Linux installation to Slackware in an OVHcloud server
This article explains how to convert a given Linux distribution to a Slackware one in an OVHcloud server. I wrote in the past an article about doing the same for OVH kimsufi. It is inspired by the Slackware wiki page Install Slackware...
Natting between host and LXC containers
Index Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Basic configuration files Part 3: Creating an unprivileged container on Slackware Part 4: Scripts overview Part 5: Natting example Part 6: Migrating to Slackware-current - LXC-7 - cgroup2 Browse the scripts' folder Changelog Here is a quick example of a natting tool, that you...
Creating an LXC unprivileged container on Slackware
Index Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Basic configuration files Part 3: Creating an unprivileged container on Slackware Part 4: Scripts overview Part 5: Natting example Part 6: Migrating to Slackware-current - LXC-7 - cgroup2 Browse the scripts' folder Changelog lxc-my_template is a modification of the default LXC template for Slackware by...
Basic configuration files
Index Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Basic configuration files Part 3: Creating an unprivileged container on Slackware Part 4: Scripts overview Part 5: Natting example Part6: Migrating to Slackware-current - LXC-7 - cgroup2 Browse the scripts' folder Changelog Save to lxc.conf your system wide configuration settings. Put there the directory...
Wrapper scripts for LXC unprivileged containers: overview
Index Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Basic configuration files Part 3: Creating an unprivileged container on Slackware Part 4: Scripts overview Part 5: Natting example Part 6: Migrating to Slackware-current - LXC-7 - cgroup2 Browse the scripts' folder Changelog This is an overview of my LXC scripts. As already said...
