network

If you are using libnss-ldap to connect to your LDAP server it's possible that you get the following message on startup

Can't contact LDAP server udevd[374]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldaps://foo.bar:
Can't contact LDAP server udevd[374]: nss_ldap: could not connect to any LDAP server as (null) -
Can't contact LDAP server udevd[374]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldaps://foo.bar:
Can't contact LDAP server

This is an known problem, please have a look at the debian BTS: #375215, #375077, #375215

To get it working, you have to add bind_policy soft to /etc/libnss-ldap.conf.

Updated features list:

1.) normal eMailaccount

• change there own password


• create/modify/delete autoresponder


• create/modify/delete forward to an other email address (with the option deliver local or not)


• activate/deactivate spamassassin


• create/modify/delete whist- and blacklists for spamassassin


• modify some options for spamassassin, e.g. rewrite subject

Now it would be nice if some volunteer create a nice site layout for the webinterface.

In the past I had some trouble to manage my RSS feeds.

I used Thunderbird for reading my email than the RSS feeds begun to grow up and I used Thunderbird to read my feeds, but it is the wrong program for it. To slow and to big, eats memory.

Today I started my search for an news reader! - I found Liferea.

A small and fast - written in GTK - newsreader. Now I'm happy with the feeds.

My project is neaerly complete! - Web based managment for eMailServers.

My eMailServer framework based on Courier/Postfix/Maildrop/MySQL has got four usergroups:

1.) normal eMailaccount

• change there own password


• create/modify/delete autoresponder

2.) admin for one or more domains

• can do the same like a normal eMailaccount


• create/modify/delete eMailaddresses


• create/modify/delete Forwardings


• create/modify/delete CatchAll Address

3.) superadmin

• can do the same like the admin


• create/modify/delete domains

4.) superadmin manager

• can do the same like the superadmin


• create/modify/delete superadmins

All this actions can be done with the webinterface!

You can find some screenshots here.

Sorry all screenshots in german, but it based on Smarty so you can make your own template.

The Webinterface depends on php4, php4-mysql, php4-cli, mysql-server,smarty, php4-pear and some extra Pear Modules.

Devolo dLAN USB drivers for the devolo network over power module.

If you try to compile the version 2.0 on an higher kernel than 2.6.13 you get the following error:

make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.18'
CC [M] /home/jonas/dLAN-linux-package-2.0/driver/devolo_usb.o
/home/jonas/dLAN-linux-package-2.0/driver/devolo_usb.c: In function `devolo_tx_timeout':
/home/jonas/dLAN-linux-package-2.0/driver/devolo_usb.c:205: error: `URB_ASYNC_UNLINK' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/jonas/dLAN-linux-package-2.0/driver/devolo_usb.c:205: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/home/jonas/dLAN-linux-package-2.0/driver/devolo_usb.c:205: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[3]: [/home/jonas/dLAN-linux-package-2.0/driver/devolo_usb.o] Error 1
make[2]: [module /home/jonas/dLAN-linux-package-2.0/driver] Error 2

The URB_ASYNC_UNLINK symbol is removed from the kernel.

This afternoon Alan Stern submitted a patch to remove the URB_ASYNC_UNLINK
flag from the Linux kernel. Mr. Stern explained, "This flag is a relic
from an earlier, less-well-designed system. For over a year it hasn't
been used for anything other than printing warning messages."

For the complete text klick here!

So remove the lines 204 till 208 in the file driver/devolo_usb.c.

Restart the make, and the driver will now compile fine and work.

I develop an easy webinterface for Postfix and Courier based on a MySQL Database.

Now it get a step closer to the finish.



Main work is done, now some subtleties need to be done.

Yes, and it's using smarty, so everyone can make his own style!

Thanks to Sven he provides me a vserver for testing!

Please use a correct SOA serial number for your nameserver.

Discussed in the RFC 1912:

Decimal serial numbers have been officially deprecated in recent BIND versions. The recommended syntax is YYYYMMDDnn (YYYY=year, MM=month, DD=day, nn=revision number. This won't overflow until the year 4294.

So please use YYYYMMDDnn, so for the first entry on the day: 2006052301. For the second change on the same day use instead of 01 a 02!

Note to myself: mii-tool can't operate with 1Gbit/s and more.

Use ethtool, provides more informtion and has no 100Mbit/s limit.

It's in Debian, so apt-get install ethtool