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I’ve been using mutt for reading my emails for some time now.

Basically, something is broken while attempting to install SVN module for PHP via “Modules installer” option.

This should be a short article mentioning few options I generally change in sshd_config and recommend that you change them too.

Day or two ago I encountered a customer that had their server partitioned in a way that there was around 250GB of non-allocated space on disk.

Annoyed by that auto-rotation icon on your Fedora desktop when using GNOME?

Since pecl extension is compiled against PHP 5.6 in official FreeBSD repositories you’ll need to manually compile this PECL extension to have it included in PHP 7.0.

So recently Firefox added section “Recently bookmarked” on top of the list of your bookmarks.

I’ve been in a fight with tmux on how to create new session under certain name, but if it already exists to attach to that current one for a very long time.

Recently I’ve had a situation that on one of the servers with Plesk panel installed on it SSH service was not working.

cPanel “CURRENT” release tier just got bumped to version 11.64 which brings few things and resolves few issues and oddities.

Ever wanted to have tmux session inside of tmux session?

This post is intended to share list of Firefox extensions I use.

Pretty neat little command that I wasn’t aware before, but quick check of the manpage would bring it to my attention. :-) To check current disk activity stats on your zpool you can use: zpool iostat -v POOLNAME You can of course omit pool name, without it

Securing R1Soft Server Backup Manager (CDP) with SSL/TLS encryption sounds like a good idea.

This is more of an reminder for myself when trying to install cPanel system on cheap, low memory system, just to test something out.

After update to newest Firefox version on Fedora 25 my gnome shell integration stopped working.

I’ve spent some time tweaking and playing around with my .tmux.conf.

This one is pretty simple, and if you properly set up your network settings when installing server it should work automatically, if not go to the Basic setup window: Navigate to the IPv6 settings section and enter your server main IPv6 address.

So, there’s this CloudFlare HTTPS traffic memory leak that happened and it is good idea to change passwords for all of your sites that are using cloudflare.

If you’re using cPanel DNS only you probably know that AutoSSL feature isn’t available on it.

To install and run PostgreSQL in FreeBSD jail you’ll need to enable allow.sysvipc system tuneable on that specific jail: List jails: jls Note jail ID and use following command to enable it for that running jail: jail -m jid=JAILID allow.sysvipc=1 This c…

This one is quite simple to be honest.

Instead of adding all IP addresses statically to your server via host’s /etc/rc.conf file you may instead leave them out and specify them on per-jail basis.

On FreeBSD top(1) utility, although having much less command line switches and options is in fact much more powerful than one that comes with your favorite Linux distribution.

On FreeBSD 11 sendmail is not enabled by default.

So, app was connecting from jail’s public IP to the MySQL and that didn’t worked since I had user created like: USER@localhost Instead of: USER@% or USER@JAILIP And that got me confused badly.

Recently I had to discover custom SSH port on the server so I needed to come up with a somewhat quick way to check for open ports on the server.

In previous article I’ve explained how to add IPv6 to your server, now it’s time to show you how to assign IPv6 address to Jail running on your IPv6 host.

This article will be one of the few to come in the near future.

Recently I have started thinking about backups on my personal web server (on which this blog is hosted on).

If you were fast on a trigger and upgraded to Fedora 25 as soon as it was available and you use Owncloud client for your syncing needs you may found yourself that Owncloud client doesn’t start.

Are you in search for an simple monitoring service that will provide you with status updates for your service and don’t want to pay in gold for it?

If you are, like me, using keyboard for your tab manipulation needs inside Firefox you may find yourself in a same situation where I was.

It is wise to protect your private SSH keys with a strong password so in case somebody manages to get your private key somehow he will still need password for it to be able to use it and that should hopefully give you enough time to change your keys.

There are many reasons why would somebody want to host their own email server.

Have you ever wondered where man pages are located and can you include some other folder with man pages?

Peek is an animated GIF recorder.

I used to use AwesomeWM back when I was still running an Arch Linux.

Rainbowstream is simple command line based Twitter client.

Thing that I miss with Apache on CentOS 7, and in the matter of fact, every SystemD based distribution is running service httpd status and immediately seeing full Apache status along with number of active connections, server uptime etc.

I just conveniently placed referral links for DigitalOcean and Vultr cloud VPS providers in the sidebar of my website and would appreciate if you used those links to sign up for their service if you planned to buy VPS from one of those two.

Here’s an article on how to change your current Apache MPM on CentOS 7 machine.

Great article by Jos Poortvliet of NextCloud on how to upgrade to NextCloud 9.

During the start-up of my Fedora powered laptop I noticed in the boot messages list that some service has failed to start.

Have you ever messed around with GNOME shortcuts and ended up with all of the shortcuts turned upside down?

Since I try to use vi/vim editor for almost everything related to editing text and I use it for writing emails too.

Today I noticed weirdly high disk space usage on my / partition.

If you want to hide which nginx version are you using from HTTP headers you can use following directive in some of your nginx configuration files: server_tokens off;

Well, like the title says, this is my setup update for February 2016.

Protecting your ownCloud instance from bots pawning on its login form is certainly a good idea and fail2ban can help you with that.