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New version of check_tvh.py allows you to pass options on the command line, power cycles the USB capture device, and drops support for Python 2

How to create a Small Python container for Docker

New howto: cURL and self signed certificates on FreeBSD 13

New version of privatebinc.py, which is a simple Python client for PrivateBin, now supports attachments

New version of s3file.py fixes a highly dangerous error in the examples output (DELETE where GET was meant), and has examples for dealing with metadata

New version of check_tvh.py reloads the cuse kernel module as well

My howto pgAdmin 4 on Gentoo now covers the latest version of pgAdmin 4, and explains how to handle updates of Python

LogBlitz version 9 displays its execution time, and adds the name of the current user to the title of the logout link

If you upgrade to LogBlitz version 8, you might configure a logout url

How to check whether a given text is a valid base64 encoded string in plain (Postgre)SQL

New howto: TSIG authenticated zone transfers with Perl and Net::DNS

New howto: Automatic version numbers with Git

Tvhead2TVB version 1.0.1.0 handles activation through a program's info popup correctly, and uses JGoodies as UI library, which comes bundled with TV-Browser

grapheqd version 5 has 3 new features: It can read PCM data from an external program, e.g. ffmpeg; it reopens the sound device in case of a failure; the RC script for FreeBSD supports profiles, i.e. you can configure multiple instances of grapheqd on the…

New howto: pgAdmin 4 on Gentoo

Older versions of the ConvertFrom-SecureString cmdlet did not have an -AsPlainText parameter.

Gave s3file.py its own page

Gave nextcron.py its own page

New version of s3file.py has command shortcuts for creating a bucket, creating a bucket with object locking, determining if a bucket has object locking enabled, setting object locking in compliance or governance mode, enabling object versioning, determini…

LogBlitz version 7 supports pyre2, highlights non-matching lines in case of an inverted search, and contains several optimizations

LogBlitz version 6 allows you to display lines before and after each matching line, and highlights every found query string

LogBlitz version 5 allows you to display line numbers and to restrict users to certain logfiles and subdirectories, stores your current settings in a cookie, and comes with a performance improvement

graypold version 10 uses a new version numbering, and fixes a bug which was introduced in version 0.8 and prevented you from bypassing graylisting for certain senders and/or recipients

LogBlitz version 4 allows you to select logfiles and directories, which names start with a dot, to show unreadable logfiles, and to specify the logfile's charset in the webinterface

New version of nextcron.py contains a small optimization and can report its version number

graypold 0.9 does not fail the SPF check anymore if the sender's address is empty

New version of s3file.py comes with builtin help and examples, allows you to pass and display HTTP headers, may read credentials from a config file, and supports Python 3 only

How to combine Apache and Fail2ban in order to show a nice "access denied" page without blocking the client's ip address

New version of update_znuny.sh now even updates Znuny on FreeBSD across major releases, e.g. 6.0.38 -> 6.1.2

New version of nextcron.py allows you to specify start date and time.

New version of update_znuny.sh does not proceed if the currently installed and the new version of OTRS/Znuny are the same.

update_znuny.sh updates Znuny on FreeBSD.

New version of nextcron.py now handles environment variables like HOME, MAILTO, etc., and dcron's noauto correctly.

nextcron.py reads one or more crontabs from stdin and displays upcoming cronjobs which are about to run next.

LogBlitz version 3 does not need an external decompressor in order to read xz compressed files anymore.

graypold 0.8 now supports SPF

imapnotes now allows you to delete notes.

My howto "Upgrading PostgreSQL with pg_upgrade on FreeBSD" now covers PostgreSQL 14 on FreeBSD 13.

LogBlitz version 2 allows you to display log entries in reverse order, i.e. latest ones first.

FastCGI with nginx and fcgiwrap on FreeBSD

LogBlitz is a CGI script to search through your (sys-)log files.

New version of rrdquery.pl fixes a bug which accepted aggregate functions written in lowercase only.

New version of kvmlib natively, i.e. without VM_EXTRA, supports UEFI boot, PCI passthrough, USB keyboard and mouse, and ISCSI disks.

New version of zfs-snap is compatible with (Open)ZFS on FreeBSD 13.

New version of kvmlib comes with 3 new features.

If you compile ftp6proxy version 4 with support for netgraph along with ipfw, then it makes use of Capsicum.

You can now deploy ftp6proxy version 3 in a pure ipfw environment without pf.

New version of check_tvh.py supports the commandline option -f or --force in order to restart webcamd and Tvheadend forcefully.

New version of zfs-snap accepts a frequency per filesystem or volume, which optionally indicates the time that must have passed since the last snapshot was taken.

rrdquery.pl now supports trivial aggregates (avg(), count(), min(), max(), and sum()).