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Samba shares on NFS mounted filesystem - bad idea

Today I implemented a strage server at a customer… the result wasn’t satisfying. I shared the files with NFS to the other servers. Samba shares of NFS mounted filesystems are NOT recommendable! It makes Outlook fuck up if you have your pst files on a samba share and the finacial system C5 can only have one user logged in because NFS make some locks on files (at least I think that is the reason).

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Migration from old 8-bit locales to UTF-8 locales

Several times I have had “great fun” converting filenames from the old 8-bit locales to use the new UTF-8 locales. Everytime, I used some time to find find a tool for it because everytime I forget the name of the tool convmv. The fuckup usually shows itself on the file server (Samba) where the users happily uses æøå for filenames.

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Logging software installation/removal on Debian based systems

At work we have several servers running Debian anb because we are multiple persones maintaining them we end up having software (packages) installed that no one remember the reason for. I thought I would be of great if apt/dpkg had some build-in preference you could enable so people had to ad a comment why they install the software which they are about to, and the comment would be saved along with a list of the packages installed. Perhapes if using sudo you could also log who is installing what. You cannot trust that people always will leave a name for a number of reasons. I think the two greatest reasons would be:

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