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Improving Mailserver Reputation

Submitted by h2b on
System
Alle
Symptom
Mails sent from your server go into the recipient's spam or junk folder.

It is quite easy to set up a mailing system on your own server, but more often than not the recipients of your mails find them in their spam or junk folder – if at all. The reason is that most mail providers establish procedures to block unsolicited mails we have to deal with nowadays.

Web Server in a Sandbox

Submitted by h2b on
System
Debian GNU/Linux
Version
7
Symptom
A web server and related services as a database server shall run in jailed environments, so that they have no or or only limited access to other processes or filesystem paths of the operating system.

There are different methods to get a sandbox environment. Here, we use the  Firejail Security Sandbox, which allows to assign a private sealed scope to a service and all associated processes; this includes resources like network access, process table or filesystem. Therewith, the service only sees its own processes and can only access the part of the filesystem that has been assigned tio it.

Updating a Drupal-6.x System

Submitted by h2b on
System
Drupal
Version
6.x
Symptom

A Drupal system shall be updated within the 6.x series – core, custom modules or both.

This howto is a short description for experienced Drupal administrators who want a check list for system updates. Thus, it is assumed that the basic update mechanism including the server directory structure is known. Furthermore, it is assumed that all administrative actions on the website are performed with appropriate permissions.

adminviews (Drupal module)

Submitted by h2b on
Name
adminviews
Version
6.x-1.0
Date

This module is only useful in conjunction with the Drupal content-management system.

The adminviews module provides a collection of blocks for administrative purposes: