Just a short update for the previous (initial) version, the changelog is as follows:

1.0:
* Initial release.
1.1:
* fixed pre width.
* added versions (and also what original version we're based on).

You can download the new version here. Enjoy

The Fantastic Flowery theme by iSoftwareReviews was my blog’s default for the past few months. I like it, it’s clean, and leaves plenty of room for the content. Too much, apparently , as I found myself in need for more items on the sidebars. So I decided to flex my HTML/CSS/PHP muscle (and a little bit of Gimp) and I produced the 3 columns version that you can see below:

You can download the theme here.

Enjoy

This post is in English because it might interest other people than just Romanians.

Based on my previous Xmail password decrypter, this little script will read Xmail users and will output the list in the format understood by Dovecot’s passwd-file option, with the PLAIN password scheme. It’s fairly easy to change it to support other schemes, like MD5.

If your Xmail users file is not /etc/xmail/mailusers.tab, you need to edit the file and change the path. Then you can use the script to overwrite the Dovecot’s passwd file, for example:

./xmail2dovecot.py > /etc/dovecot/passwd

Download: xmail2dovecot.py

The UPSes from Inform are pretty decent and cheap. They even come with Linux, BSD and Unix drivers. The Linux ones – at least – don’t work, though. I bough a Guard LCD 1000 VA and played with it a little until I made it work with my Debian server.

The shipped drivers are garbage – however, the UPS works perfectly with Network UPS Tools (nut in Debian), with the driver megatec. Here is the magic to include in /etc/nut/ups.conf:

[InformGuardLCD]
driver = megatec
port = /dev/ttyS0
desc = "My UPS"

To check that it works, you should run upsdrvctl -DDDDD start and watch what happens. You should also try to plug out the UPS from the power socket to force it to go to batteries.

If everything is ok, the rest of the config is pretty straightforward, nut has working samples. After you start the daemons, you can check the UPS status with upsc InformGuardLCD.

Enjoy

This post is in English because it might interest other than Romanian speaking people too.

Here is a tiny little password decrypter for Xmail. It will output all passwords in the format username@domain -> password. It tries to open /etc/xmail/mailusers.tab, if your users file is somewhere else edit the script and change the path.

Download: xmdecrypt.py