Posts By: jonny

Forward Root’s Mail

Forwarding the email sent to root on a system to another email address.vi /etc/aliases # Person who should get root’s mailroot:   myreal@emailaddress.com The run:/usr/bin/newaliases Test it.

OWA Change Password button

OWA allows for changing the AD/domain password but in our case this needed to be disabled as currently password syncronisation back out to the other directories is not possible.EMC > Server Config > Client Access , for each of the Client Access machines right-click the Outlook Web Access – owa option and choose Properties. In… Read more »

Ubuntu NumLock Problem in Hardy

Symptom: The Num Lock key does not seem to have any effect and the number keys do not work. Cause: Upgrading from Gutsy to Hardy Heron 8.04. I keep my home folder on a separate partition and have it mounted on boot so something in my home folder configuration folders/files must be having a conflict… Read more »

Offline Addressbook Problems

I had a customer who was having difficulty sending emails to a user who was given a new mailbox/email address. Updating the addressbook in Outlook (via Tools > Send and Receive > Download Address Book) was failing.I checked the folder (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Exchange\ClientAccess\OAB) on a recently rebuilt Client Access / front-end machine which did not… Read more »

mod_spamhaus on CentOS 5

Trying this module out on Centos 5 and Apache 2 to see how it goes (Debian install how-to here) yum install httpd-devel (if ‘which apxs’ shows nothing) wget http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/m/project/mo/mod-spamhaus/mod-spamhaus/0.7/mod-spamhaus-0.7.tar.gz ln -s /usr/sbin/apxs /usr/sbin/apxs2 tar zxf mod_spamhaus*.tar.gz cd mod_spamhaus make make install touch /etc/httpd/mod_spamhaus.wl LoadModule spamhaus_module /usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_spamhaus.sowas automatically added to httpd.conf vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf {IfModule mod_spamhaus.c}MS_METHODS POST,PUT,OPTIONS,CONNECTMS_WhiteList… Read more »

Active Directory MMC – Object Tab

I keep forgetting how to enable the ‘Object’ tab in the Active Directory MMC to view the location of an object in the tree, so for future reference….In the main MMC window choose View > Advanced Features

Turn off pings

The follwing file can be set to 0 or 1. 0 does not allow pings on any interface and 1 switches it back on. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all

Wheaten Bread

Ingredients: 8 oz Plain Flour 4 oz Wholemeal Flour 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp salt 1 tsp sugar half pint of buttermilk Mix and roll then coat with flour. Bake at 170 for 45 minutes. Cover in tea towels when cooling.

Pancakes

Ingredients: 8oz Plain Flour 2oz Caster Sugar 1 egg 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp salt 1 dessert spoon of Golden Syrup Half pint buttermilk Mix all ingredients well. Coat a frying pan with a little butter. On a low heat (e.g. 2) add a tablespoon of the mixture. Cook and flip.

up2date – unknown GPG signature

I had previously installed lftp – can’t remember from where but it was now stopping up2date due to a missing key. The package lftp-3.7.3-1.el4.rf is signed, but with an unknown GPG key. Aborting…Package lftp-3.7.3-1.el4.rf has a unknown GPG signature. Aborting… I need to sort out the key but temporarily sorted with: up2date –nox –configure and… Read more »