Some Bits Of System Administration

… things that I found valuable or that I contributed myself

New and updated stuff

mail_lookuplist: A script to "validate" an e-mail address and to look it up in a list
A simple colorize for the shell
postpone: A script to postpone some action for a given time
showmydisks: A script to report partitions, types, file systems, mount points, and usage

netstat.php: A simple script to show online status of hosts and services
autoreply_deferentially.rc: A procmail based autoreply/autoresponder/vacation script
NoteIt bookmarklet to quickly copy title, URL and some text of a web page
Essential e-mail acronyms
Regexes to filter mail receipts
Oracle plugin for sirc: A simple IRC Oracle bot plugin for sirc
Recommended Web Applications
A captcha hack for Gallery 1.5.x

Partly outdated and in need for an overhaul

mUps: a multi-purpose text database system for PHP ("in progress", or "unfinished")
fullquoteremover: 2 simple scripts to automatically remove full quotes from mail messages. fullquottel (by Philipp Spitzer and Gregor Herrmann) follows a similar concept. Contrary to fullquoteremover, fullquottel is written in C++, and it comes with documentation.

Public key authentication For PuTTY: A step-by-step guide of how to get PuTTY to connect to your Linux/Unix SSH account by use of public keys
Configure c't-Debian-Server For Software-RAID-1 (outdated)
Wie Microsoft Outlook Express 6 eingestellt werden sollte (German only; and no!, I do not use OE)
How to configure Microsoft Outlook Express: A well written explanation of how to set up OE 5 & 6 to avoid HTML attachments, by Barrie McElroy; the link refers to an archive.org version of 2004-11-18.
Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain ASCII Text: For a long time this was the reference, written by Gerald E. Boyd, last updated 2004-03-24; link refers to an archive.org version of 2008-08-22.