Monthly Archives: October 2014

CentOS 7 on MD-RAID 1

Posted on 25. October 2014 by #!/bin/blog

Figuring this out took me quite a bit of time. In the end, I approached the starter of this hilariously useless CentOS mailing list thread, who assured me that indeed he had found a way to configure MD-RAID in the … Continue reading →

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Overriding the Mozilla Thunderbird HELO hostname

Posted on 21. October 2014 by #!/bin/blog

I found that when connecting through a SOCKS proxy (e.g. SSH dynamic forward), Mozilla Thunderbird tends to leak its local hostname (including the domain of the place where you are at that moment) as a HELO/EHLO header to its SMTP … Continue reading →

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What does the slash in crontab(5) actually do?

Posted on 17. October 2014 by #!/bin/blog

That’s a bit of a stupid question. Of course you know what the slash in crontab(5) does, everyone knows what it does. I sure know what it does, because I’ve been a UNIX and Linux guy for almost 20 years. … Continue reading →

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