2011

Highlight your logs

       54 words, 1 minutes

Logs are great. Logs are cool. Logs are helpful. But logs are monochrome. Unless you ask the camel to colorize them:

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Search Active Directory from the desktop

       195 words, 1 minutes

That day, at work, I had to check if an application has been implemented as it should have been. The application was supposed to use Active Directory groups to filter users access to some data. I’m no admin on my desktop ; but I had to find a “standard” way to query the corporate Active Directory. Here’s the trick.

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WordPress permalinks with Apache

       155 words, 1 minutes

The permalinks have been configured to work with Lighttpd here . Now, if you want to do it with Apache (here the 1.3.29 OpenBSD patched version), here are the directions.

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Back to the sea ; the Open Source Groupware (SOGo), episode XI

       1099 words, 6 minutes

Quoting SOGo: Open Source Groupware homepage: SOGo is groupware server with a focus on scalability and open standards. SOGo provides a rich AJAX-based Web interface and supports multiple native clients. It is a set of access tools to your Mail, Calendar and Address book. It provides Webmail, a CalDAV and a CardDAV services. It also enables integration with native clients, like Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook and Apple Mail. The difference with M$ Exchange is that it is Open Source software. The difference with Zafara or Zimbra is that it doesn’t come with its own backend ; it sits on top of some already running SMTP and IMAP servers.

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Backup LDAP entries with ldapsearch

       84 words, 1 minutes

I have a LDAP instance running the OpenBSD’s ldapd. I installed the openldap-client package so that I get ldapsearch, but there doesn’t seem to be any slapcat-like tool ; which may be used to backup the LDAP content in LDIF format. Here’s a trick to dump the ldapd content using ldapsearch:

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