LarryTheCow and RoundCube

Two short things today. First I’d like to write a (very late) hello to Planet Larry. Planet Larry is a Planet for Gentoo-Users and since arround a month I think I am subscribed to it… Hello Planet Larry!

Second, do you know RoundCube? It is just awesome, even an ebuild is available via bugzilla (though I installed it manually anyway ;-) )

From their Website:

RoundCube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking. RoundCube Webmail is written in PHP and requires the MySQL database. The user interface is fully skinnable using XHTML and CSS 2.

It is arround 100000000 times faster than squirrelmail, easy to set up, very nice and clean interface and very promising!

Siemens Gigaset SE515 DSL Router

Hm, hab mich gerade das erste mal in meinem Leben richtig mit der Konfiguration unseres privaten DSL-Routers hier zuhause auseinandergesetzt, und siehe da: das Ding hat SNMP-Support! Steht nix von im Handbuch u auch nirgendwo in der Webconfig-Oberflaeche zu finden. Die Adresse zum aktivieren ist http://123.123.123.123/adm_snmp.htm Cool! Da kommen ungeahnte Moeglichkeiten des Traffic-Monitorings auf den Tisch :-)

Saving SSH options for specific host

Who doesn’t know that problem. You are working on a bunch of different hosts via ssh, and on all of them you need specific SSH Options. On the first the port differs, on the second you need to login with a different user than you are connected right now, on the third you need X-Forwarding and on the fourth you want to redirect a remote port to a local one. I knew that it is possible to save host-specific options in a ssh config file, but I never got arround to take a look at it. Now I found exactly that question – and the answer – in the popular german computer magazine CT. The file is

~/.ssh/config

The structure is rather simple. You specify a connectionname via

Host CONNECTIONNAME

and the belonging host via

HostName HOSTNAME

After that you can specify any options you want to for the connection (see man ssh_config). You can do it for as many hosts as you want. I just set it up and it is just to cool how much time it saves not to type all the stuff all the time.

Example:

Host stiffmaster
HostName 192.168.6.112
User prego
Port 33
LocalForward 6312 localhost:631
ForwardX11 yes

Now you just type ssh stiffmaster instead of ssh -X -L 6312:localhost:631 -p 33 prego@192.168.6.112. Isn’t that cool?? :-)