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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. 9.1.0 Solr documentation page Solr FTS Engine documentation page for Dovecot Upgrading to version 9.1.0 More info here Before starting check that your java is...

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 Browse the scripts' folder A common use of the LXC containers is to isolate services like sql, ftp, httpd, mail etc. in an host...

Converting a Linux installation to a Slackware one in an OVH Kimsufi server

This article explains how to convert a given Linux distribution to a Slackware one in an OVH kimsufi server. It is inspired by the Slackware wiki page Install Slackware on an online.net Dedibox BareMetal Server, which explains the same for a Dedibox...

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...