Playing with qmail-spp
qmail-spp provides plug-in support for qmail-smtpd. It allows you to write external programs and use them to check SMTP command argument validity. The plug-in can trigger several actions, like denying a command with an error message, logging data, adding a header...
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...
Server Name Indication (SNI) per qmail e dovecot
Server Name Indication (SNI) è una estensione del protocollo TLS che consente a un server di presentare differenti certificati a seconda dell'hostname richiesto dal client durante il saluto TLS. In un ambiente email moderno, molti domini condividono uno stesso indirizzo IP per...
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...
Bloccare gli HELO/EHLO con falso DNS
[NB se si è seguita la 'configurazione veloce' basata sullo script config-all, questo programma è già stato configurato.] Changelog Jan 8, 2026 (v. 10.0.1)- dropped PCRE dependency Feb 9, 2025- clang compat- dropped I and V options Aug 17, 2023- C++ version Aug 13, 2023- v....
daemontools
Info: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html github Autore: D.J. Bernstein Versione: 0.83 daemontools è una collezione di strumenti per gestire servizi UNIX. Monitora i servizi di qmail e salva i messaggi di errore in uno o più logs. Changelog Jan 5, 2026 (v0.83)This release doesn't add any new feature nor fixes...
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...
