Openbsd
I wanted to share users authentication and permissions between the QNAP TS-453mini and my OpenBSD servers. An option is to enable and manage LDAP server on the QNAP and configure OpenBSD 6.0 to authenticate the users on the remote LDAP service.Continue reading...
Maintaining OpenBSD up-to-date is quite easy using the Errata Patches. But this requires using cvs and make to download, compile and apply thoses patches. In some cases, this is also true pour ports. There is a way to deal with binary objects only: openup by M:Tier. This is how to do it.Continue reading...
I don’t fancy much Munin’s default look. I tend to like layouts that fit on a single screen. That’s mainly why I used to use Xymon. But there is a Munin’s theme that turns the Web interface into something very clean to my eyes. And great news, it’s done so well that it also works on OpenBSD. Ready, steady, go!Continue reading...
It’s been a while since I used Munin monitoring system . I felt like I was going to have a look at the (not so) new 2.0.x branch ; running on my brand new OpenBSD 5.7. As usual, everything is quite well documented in the man pages and readmes. So here are simply my notes with particular directions regarding my installation.Continue reading...
I’ve just discovered than compression can be applied on Dovecot mail storage. Truth is I used to run the delivery via Postfix. Now that I use OpenSMTPD and Dovecot LMTP to deliver the mail, those can be compressed for write (LMTP) and read (IMAP) process. Here’s how.Continue reading...