Testing End-to-End and how this all works. This is part three in the series, and part one is here, along with part two being here. Purpose:Configure Postfix and Dovecot to use OpenLDAP for alias resolution and mailbox delivery, allowing one Read more…
Postfix + Dovecot with LDAP Integration: Continuation Purpose:Configure Postfix and Dovecot to use OpenLDAP for alias resolution and mailbox delivery, allowing one real mailbox (testuser@example.com) to receive mail for many virtual addresses (e.g., admin, webmaster, postmaster). This is part two Read more…
There will be three articles in total on how to create an LDAP back end and using that with Dovecot and Postfix. This article covers the setup of LDAP and adding email addresses and aliases to LDAP. Purpose:Configure Postfix and Read more…
How-To: Secure Nginx Proxy Manager Admin UI with Your Own SSL Certificates This article walks you through using Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) to secure its own administrative interface (port 81) with a custom SSL certificate, instead of using Let’s Encrypt. 1. Read more…
Post 4: Training a Variational Autoencoder for Anomaly Detection Welcome to Part 4 of my series on building an intelligent log analysis system. In Part 3, I focused on parsing raw logs into a structured format for machine learning. Today, Read more…
Text often needs to be encoded to safely traverse different systems and character sets. This article explores common encoding methods and presents a universal decoder script that can handle multiple encoding formats.
In this part of this series on building a smarter log analysis system. In this post, we’ll focus on the crucial step of parsing logs for machine learning. This step transforms raw log files into a structured format that can Read more…
Quick Definitions Frequently Asked Questions Q1: Why use a VAE for anomaly detection? VAEs are well-suited for learning patterns in high-dimensional data. By compressing data into a latent space, they can reconstruct normal patterns well but struggle with anomalous data, Read more…
Introduction In the first post of this series, I looked into the idea of using machine learning to detect anomalies in server logs and the benefits it might bring.In this post, I’ll guide you through setting up a Python-based environment Read more…
Introduction Like many system administrators, I’ve relied on pflogsumm to keep tabs on my email server through daily summary reports. While these automated emails have served me well, I’ve always wondered if there was more to learn from this data. Read more…
Original Question Problem Statement:I am trying to change the URLs for my WordPress posts to use “post names” instead of “page numbers” by modifying the permalink structure. However, after making the change, my posts and the post page are not Read more…
Resolving the File Attachment Conflict in Roundcube If you see the following error when setting up Roundcube’s Enigma plugin for encryption the following article should solve the issue. Error: PHP Error: Can use only one plugin for attachments/file uploads! Using Read more…