We had a bit of difficulty yesterday with LDAP / Active Directory authentication within Exim. Sending mail via SMTP with authentication was timing out and it looked like a TLS error. 2013-10-01 14:39:12 [17013] TLS error on connection from blahblahblah (ehloname) [192.168.1.3]:52031 I=[192.168.6.51]:587 (SSL_accept): error:140760FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:unknown protocol We got to the bottom of the problem… Read more »
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HaiPai i9389 MTK6589 Android Phone
WARNING: I AM NOT RECOMMENDING THIS PHONE, THE SELLER OR ALIEXPRESS I am adding an update to this original post as there have been some developments. I bought two of these phones (one for me and one for my sister-in-law) and we have had nothing but difficulty since. The phones regularly seize up and require… Read more »
Manipulating Image Metadata for Stock Photos
On a Linux desktop one thing I miss is the ability to easily add metadata (exif / iptc) to the images I upload to stock photo websites. Adding this metadata makes it much easier to submit the same photo to multiple websites. The ‘File Info’ command in Photoshop does what I want but I haven’t… Read more »
Automounting Netgear ReadyNAS CIFS Shares
I wanted to use Autofs to auto-mount the shares on my Netgear ReadyNAS upon entering specific directories so… Install pre-requisites: sudo apt-get install cifs-utils autofs sudo gedit /etc/auto.master Add the line: /mnt/nas /etc/auto.nas –timeout=6000 –ghost sudo gedit /etc/auto.nas And added the following lines: pictures -fstype=cifs,rw,noperm ://nas/pictures videos -fstype=cifs,rw,noperm ://nas/videos music -fstype=cifs,rw,noperm ://nas/music documents… Read more »
wine cmd.exe /c echo ‘%ProgramFiles%’ returned empty string
I had this problem today: wine cmd.exe /c echo ‘%ProgramFiles%’ returned empty string When I was trying to run Winetricks: sh winetricks msxml6 gdiplus gecko vcrun2005 Until I realised that I was trying to run winetricks as root rather than as my normal unprivileged user. Just in case it helps anyone else.
Shell Script Example Squid Logs
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 each log file…. Read more »
Postfix with Amavisd-new on Plesk & Centos
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 amavisd-new I had some error messages starting amavisd and it was necessary for me to install the Mail::SPF… Read more »
Windows 2008 Disk Space and CBS.log
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 the C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log file at almost 18GB:… Read more »
Delaying Dropbox Start in Ubuntu
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 choose Applications > System Tools > Preferences > Startup Applications and add a… Read more »
PHP Accessing an IMAP Mailbox
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 = ‘honeypot’; $password = ‘topsecret’; $inbox = imap_open($hostname,$username,$password) or die(‘Cannot connect to Mail server as… Read more »
