2013-06-26 Discovered automysqlbackup. Just install it, configure the desti- nation directory, and you don't have to care for mysql backups anymore. All those self-written dump scripts should be replaced. Automysqlbackup fulfills two tasks, actually: Dump the database and rotate/delete files. The former is specific, the latter is generic. Rotating files and keeping some defined set is a task often needed. A lot of backup software implements it and logging tools as well. There should be one generic tool to provide this service for all the others. Yes, there's logrotate, which might be a candidate. However, I always found it difficult to use. We need someting truly simply and generic. (btw: I should also have a deeper look at syslog, which should be equally generic.) Came across the OpenIKED paper by Reyk Floeter. [0] Although I don't care much about VPNs, I liked to read the paper. It shows a development philosophy similar to mine. I hope that my master's thesis shows a similar character. The section on portability uses clear words. Maybe the question is whether code is to be run or to be read and edited. Depending on the answer one wants to choose different portability ap- proaches. The Uncyclopedia has had its best days. However, the Wikipedia might have become invaded by Uncyclopedians, at least the Wiki- pedia namespace. The TL;DR page [1] has a style much like the good old Uncyclopedia. [0] http://openbsd.org/papers/openiked-asiabsdcon2013.pdf [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Too_long;_didn%27t_read http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke