A few tricks using vi for increased? productivity:Global Search and Replace :% s#changefrom#changeto#g Delete from the cursor to the end of the line: D Replace from here to the end [...]
Sep
2010
Exporting Active Directory Data
I had a need to export particular data of users from a specific group in Active Directory. Windows has two tools for this: cvsde and ldifde – the de stands [...]
Sep
2010
Send Faxes From Linux
PamFax offer a service for sending documents and scans to fax numbers worldwide. Paymeny by PayPal which is handy. Linux installers in Deb, Rpm and tarball.
Sep
2010
Red Hat CentOS Yum Repositories
This is my summary of Yum repositories for future reference. Yum (and apt on Debian systems) is an easy way to install software on Red Hat/CentOS systems and to keep [...]
Sep
2010
Enhancing ClamAV with Extra Signatures
We use ClamAV mainly for scanning incoming email for malware and phishing scams. ClamAV comes with a default database usually stored in /var/clamav or /var/lib/clamav . To get up-to-date malware [...]
Sep
2010
Exporting Global Address List
I was thinking of trying to export/convert the Exchange Global Address List GAL so that I could then import this into other email client address books such as Evolution or [...]
Sep
2010
Refreshing ARP table entries
Taking an IP address down on one host: /sbin/ifconfig eth0:1 down Taking the IP address up on another host: /sbin/ifconfig eth0:1 111.222.111.222 netmask 255.255.225.0 up Use arping to update the [...]
Sep
2010
Tunnel Web Browsing to Remote Server over SSH
So I want to be able to test web access from outside our network. On my private server I have Squid running on port 3128 so: ssh -L 3128:localhost:3128 jonny@myprivateserver.com [...]
Sep
2010
Blocking Attackers in ProFTPd
To manually block an IP address accessing ProFTPd you can use the following in the ProFTPd config file:<Limit LOGIN>Order deny,allowDeny from 111.222.111.222Allow from all</Limit></Global>Of course it would be better to [...]
Sep
2010
Convert bin/cue to iso with bchunk
On Ubuntu install binchunker with: sudo apt-get install bchunk Then create the iso at the command-line with the following: bchunk myfile.bin myfile.cue newfile.iso More info here

