Efficiency vs. Inefficiency, in a no-holds barred fight.
On servers where fail2ban has been working for a long time, you might notice the size of its database eating up your disk space. I just found one that had ballooned to over 2Gb over the course of a year. You'll find it hiding in /var/lib/fail2ban/ If its causing you anguish, then you can easily … Read more
Its a bit of a departure from my usual area, but as the Raspberry Pi runs Debian, I agreed to help a friend get his Pi set up to run his robotic kit. However he arrived with the Pi Zero alone: no power and no monitor. How to get into it …? So first of … Read more
Quick one … your system probably uses logrotate to keep a fixed number of logs, and which stops your disk filling up. Trouble is, that systemctl doesn't write logs in the normal way so you can't rely on logrotate any more. Check out your current systemctl log usage with journalctl –disk-usage Wait, whaaaat? Its using … Read more
I just found this feature of CSF, and it occurred to me that not only was it useful for changing the firewall config of your computer from one state to another (Home vs Office vs Coffeeshop for eg), but it could also be used to copy the config to a similar server: you'd just load … Read more
File locations are a bit all over the shop in this version, so this is how it works out. For reference the actual program files are downloaded to /usr/share/roundcube/ the config happens in /etc/roundcube the web directory is in /var/lib/roundcube, which contains symlinks to the above locations. This is the one you add to your … Read more