Using fail2ban it is easy to ban unwanted users from your servers by denying access to it using the local firewall capabilities.
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grub: Re-install from recovery CD
This post describes how to install grub after the computer has been booted from a recovery CD.
Install Activiti on postgresql
To install Activiti on PostgreSQL, the following steps need to be executed.
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VirtualBox: resize disk
This post is a small reminder (for me) how to resize an existing virtualbox disk. Continue reading “VirtualBox: resize disk”
Tomcat: split catalina_home and catalina_base
Introduction
Catalina_home is the tomcat installation (unzipped archive), catalina_base is the folder of a server instance. By default, catalina_base is set to catalina_home. But when it comes to upgrading Tomcat installation, having the possibility to roll back or to run more than one instance of Tomcat on the same server, it is easier to separate those two folders from each other. Continue reading “Tomcat: split catalina_home and catalina_base”
Usage of Sieve
Functionality
Sieve is used to filter messages directly on the imap server. In this way, it can replace local mail filter rules in the user’s email agent. This is very useful, if more then one email agent is used – e.g. if the same server is used from different computers or operatint systems. In my case, the company notebook is Windows driven (using Thunderbird) and my workstation is running on linux using Evolution as a mail client. My mails are filtered by Sieve so I do not need to edit filter rules for each client.
Getting the ink level for epson printers
The current fuel level for Epson printers can be discovered using the escputils. Continue reading “Getting the ink level for epson printers”
Kmail: Emails stuck in outbox folder
After I have upgraded from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 I discovered an issue on kmail – emails were not sent but stayed in the local “outbox” folder. Continue reading “Kmail: Emails stuck in outbox folder”
Maven: update context root in EAR
Introduction
When using Maven3 to build your enterprise application containing an war file, the war file’s context root is set as
<artifactId>-<version>
If you want to overwrite this root context, you can do this in the EAR’s pom.xml. Continue reading “Maven: update context root in EAR”