Trying a free SSL cert from Comodo and had some difficulties with an error message:The CA certificate does not sign the certificateSo downloaded the following CA... » More
I had a few stumbles when setting up Sophie, so for future reference:v3.05 checking for DllGetClassObject in -lsavi... noHave you downloaded the correct version of Sophos? There are a few versions available (AMD64 etc)v3.0 checking for SAVIsweepFile in... » More
I found that the sweep command would show a file as a virus yet some of these files were still getting through our mail system past Sophie. There wasn't much on the web describing this problem so I am posting here for future reference. In the sophie.savi... » More
Slight problem today with emails stuck in users' outboxes in Outlook and for OWA users their messages were moving to the Drafts folder without being sent. Problem was that a few services on the server hadn't started automatically after an update.... » More
Simple powershell script to remove old IIS logs (or any other file for that matter).$pathToLogs = "C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1";$LogAgeTarget = 183; # Number of days of logs to keep$dteNow = Get-Date if (Test-Path $pathToLogs){ ... » More
A few issues today with a machine that had been left to boot with its swap space on the SAN. So I wanted to tell the machine to use the swap space on the local disk so I could refer to it in /etc/fstab by its label. So I tried:e2label /dev/sdf3... » More
Some old database tables needed to be converted. This can be done at the mysql command prompt with:ALTER TABLE tbl_name TYPE = MYISAM;Or using the script 'mysql_convert_table_format' which is located in the MySQL bin folder.... » More
Setting up the email account for Outlook results in the message: "The action cannot be completed. The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action."The server address I had used had an... » More
I found the following perl snippet here to convert a squid log file into one with readable times:#! /usr/bin/perl -ps/^\d+\.\d+/localtime $&/e;It can be used like this:./timeconvert.pl inputfile.txt > outputfile-withhumantime.txt
