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HowTo: Ask questions in Bash?

I've been writing some script to configure some firewall and came up with this way of asking a question in Bash. I hope it helps as an example. Feel free to contribute your own:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

ask() {
    local query=$1

    if ( echo $query | grep -qi password ); then
        read …

HowTo: Fixing Dovecot 2.2 in CentOS 7.2

Warning: If you update dovecot on CentOS 7, it will brake! You need to update one of the config files in order for it to keep working:

# /etc/dovecot/conf.d/15-mailboxes.conf
...

namespace inbox {
    ...
    inbox = yes
    ...
}
...

So, basically, you need to add inbox = yes within the inbox namespace.


Far away: A Creative Commons success story

Once upon a time, I made a song for a good friend (Juan Carlos Cano); since he got a good contract from a big label and he was to record an album.

https://www.jamendo.com/track/1298683/far-away

The song was made and I uploaded it to my website …


HowTo: Generate free SSL certificates for Nginx/Tengine with LetsEncrypt

OK, it's fairly easy to get this done on a distro like Funtoo/Gentoo or Fedora, which are the distros I use.

First of all, you need to install this thing on your server:

# Fedora
su -
dnf -y install letsencrypt

# Funtoo/Gentoo
su -
mkdir src && cd src
git clone https …

I'd like my kernel vanilla, please

Yep, vanilla is the flavor of the kernel for me. I like using vanilla in #funtoo. It is nice and it is simple. No patches. No security watch-cha-ma-call-it or anything like that. Just me and that good 'ol penguin; which deals with my hardware, networking and you-name-it systems.

I like …