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Speeding up ProFTPD logins

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One year ago I have switched from PureFTPd to ProFTPD because it runs smoother on the virtual server I am running. The server is really easy to setup and maintain, but with the standard configuration it always takes around 5 to 10 seconds to log on to the server. After searching for a solution to these slow logins, it turns out that there is even a point in the FAQ on how to speed up the login process.

Just edit the file /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf and add these 2 lines:

UseReverseDNS off
IdentLookups off

Lesson learned: I should read manuals more often.

Git hosting with gitolite

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Git LogoNow that Xcode has native support for Git repositories, I finally decided to migrate my private Mercurial repository to Git. I have always been running my source code repository on my own server and I want to keep this practice with Git. When searching for options on how to setup a private Git repository, Gitolite seemed like a nice option.

In this small howto I will describe how I have setup Gitolite on my Ubuntu 8.04 server. Please note, that Ubuntu has included Gitolite in the 10.10 release, so that the installation is even simpler now. I will describe the manual installation procedure for Ubuntu releases prior to 10.10.
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Setting up PureFTPD on a virtual server

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PureFTPD Logo PureFTPD is a secure and easy to configure FTP server. It has all the features you usually need, like TLS encryption, virtual users, quotas and limits. The only downside is that PureFTPD is not easy to install on a virtual server because the default Debian package is compiled with some options that are not supported by the standard OpenVZ and Virtuozzo kernels. Therefore you need to recompile PureFTPD with some reasonable settings. In This post I will explain how to do that and do a basic service setup.

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Setting up a spamsafe Postfix server

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I am currently in the process of upgrading my webserver to Debian Etch. In the past I have been using Debian Sarge with Plesk as an administration desktop. Plesk is very convenient, but it is also a memory hog and a performance killer, so I decided to go on without a web based administration tool and configure every service manually. This has the advantage that the system will be more secure and easier to update. The downside is a little bit more work in the beginning. During the next couple of postings I will document the configuration of the various services I have running on that server.

In this first post I will start with the mail service for which I choose the Postfix daemon together with policyd-weight for spam filtering and Dovecot as an IMAP and POP3 server. Authentication will be done with the SASL daemon against the standard user database. This is not really suited for large mail installations with a lot of users, but if you have to deal with only a couple of mail users, it is really easy to administrate.

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