27
Sep
2013

Shell Script Example Squid Logs

shell, squid

I was trying to explain to a colleague a few days ago how a few shell commands can be really useful, when today I came across an example to try to illustrate. My problem was that I had 245 log files each about 70-80MB in size - roughly 4 million lines in... » More

25
Sep
2013

Postfix with Amavisd-new on Plesk & Centos

spam

For future reference: I installed Amavisd on CentOS and configured it to be used within Postfix following instructions here and here. I had also configured ClamAV and Spamassassin but those instructions are for another day. yum install... » More

24
Sep
2013

Windows 2008 Disk Space and CBS.log

windows

CBS.log Disk Usage Analyzer I noticed one of our Windows 2008 servers running low on space on the C: drive and used Disk Usage Analyzer to scan the disk. I had been suspecting the winsxs directory as this has been a culprit in the past: However, this time it turned out to be... » More

23
Sep
2013

Delaying Dropbox Start in Ubuntu

ubuntu

Edit Startup Program Dropbox The length of time it was taking after logging in to get Dropbox started was beginning to get on my nerves. The following worked for me: Open the Dropbox Preferences dialog and disable the option for "Start Dropbox on system startup" Next... » More

20
Sep
2013

PHP Accessing an IMAP Mailbox

php

This week I started playing around with PHP and a honeypot mailbox I had created some time ago. The following PHP is what I have been using thus far - plenty more work to do:   $hostname = '{imap.domain.uk:143/notls}INBOX'; $username =... » More
20
Sep
2013

Testing Proxy.pac Files

linux, shell, squid

I decided to do a bit of checking on the proxy.pac file we were using. I grepped through our Apache access log files to pull out all of the IP addresses accessing the file over the year: zgrep "proxy.pac" ./2013-??-??.access_log.gz | awk '{print $1}'... » More
20
Sep
2013

Coloring Bash Output

linux, shell

Colour bash shell script output I wanted to add some colour to the output of my bash shell script and was able to do so with the following - very simple red and green: if ; then tput setaf 2 echo "OK There are no problems" tput sgr0 else tput setaf 1 echo "WARNING There... » More

02
Sep
2013

Apache Directory Studio (Softerra Alternative)

linux

I was looking for an alternative to the Windows software 'Softerra LDAP Browser'  and I stumbled upon Apache Directory Studio. Apache Directory Studio is based on Eclipse and allows browsing to LDAP directories, searching and editing. I tested it with... » More