2015-02-19



Reworked an old PHP website of mine, today. This one  accompanies
me  since  ten  years already. (The code behind it is accordingly
bad ... although it had improved through several reworks  consid-
erably.)  The  website  receives  few to moderate traffic and re-
ceives changes infrequenty. Since I migrated the website from  an
webspace  the a server I more and more switched from the database
storage to  file  system  storage.  Today,  I  did  another  such
transfer. This made it much easier to connect an email gateway to
it.

With about 25 lines of shell script and one MTA alias, I made  it
possible  to insert content by email. This is the first time that
I implemented such a thing, but it is  only  sensible,  as  I  am
really email-centered.

     #!/bin/sh
     # depends: mmh, imagemagick, mailx

     export PATH="/usr/local/mmh/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"

     dir="/var/www/.../`date +%Y`"

     tmp="`mktemp -d`"
     trap 'rm -rf "$tmp"' 0 1 2 15

     cd "$tmp"
     mkdir .mmh
     echo "Path: $tmp/.mmh" >.mmh/profile
     MMH=.mmh mhstore -file -
     rm -f *.plain
     for i in *.jpg *.png ; do
             [ ! -f "$i" ] && continue
             mogrify -resize 400x "$i"
     done
     chmod 664 *
     chgrp foogroup *

     [ ! -d "$dir" ] && mkdir "$dir" && chmod 775 "$dir"
     mv * "$dir" || mail -s "Nothing to store" meillo <<-!
             $0

             I received a message that had no attachments.
             Please check if this was as intended.
     !


This  is  a  good   explanation   of   the   difference   between
/var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog.  [0]


Via TUHS mailing list, I came across this cool blog post.  [1]


I started to copy data (backups) from Molly to Quagga.

[0]  http://wayback.archive.org/web/20101007163324/http://namakajiri.net/complog/the-
difference-between-messages-and-syslog/
[1]  http://garrett.damore.org/2014/09/modernizing-less.html


http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>