This is a simple backup script using a batch file, it writes to a log file, sends the log file by email and then renames the log file by date and time.
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Orange GPRS settings (Email/Web): Homepage: http://orange.multimedia/ Access Point: orangeinternet Access Point (Old PAYG): payginternet Username: user Password: pass Authentication: Normal Email SMTP server: smtp.orange.net Prim. DNS Server: 158.043.192.001 Sec. DNS Server: 158.043.128.001
About a month ago an intrusion into Fedora servers was detected, and while the signing key for all packages was not compromised Fedora still decided to resign all packages with a new key as a security measure. A few days ago repositories with the new key were enabled. That leads […]
Acer has interwoven Firefox 2 with the rest of the system, that’s why a quite unusual approach is required to install the newest version. The benefit of using an official release is a working update feature, which is disabled in the version already installed on the system. Press Alt+F2 to […]
The below is instructions on how to install VLC on an Acer AA1 running Linpus, these deatails and credit were found at http://macles.blogspot.com/ Acer ships a media player named Media Master, which is in fact just a rebranded version of CyberLink PowerDVD, with the pre-installed Linux. Also included is a […]
Outlook 2003 – Lost Unread Mail Folder In Outlook 2003, on the left-hand side at the top there is ‘Mail, Favourite Folders’. It contains a number of ‘shortcuts’ – it is possible to accidentally delete and lose these.
VMware server installation on CentOS: 1. Log in the server as ‘root’. It’s not best practice but for now it’s easier. 2. Run all the software updates and reboot, you’ll be prompted about them in the upper right corner. It’ll take a while. If you’re not on dhcp you’ll have […]
1. Go to the Webmin Download page and note the download link for Centos. Currently its http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.450-1.noarch.rpm 2 .Login via SSH to your server. 3. At the SSH prompt type: yum -y install perl-Net-SSLeay 4. use wget to obtain the webmin package for Centos that you got the link for […]
hosts file By default, if you try to modify your hosts file in Vista, it will not let you save it. It tells you that you don’t have permission. To successfully modify the hosts file, run notepad.exe as an administrator and open the file
Will’s Note: I am not the orginal author. I have updated some of the info:file scanning exceptions for your Anti-Virus software where applicable: Consider the following NOTE: the %systemroot% variable will not work as an exclusion for some OSs. So make sure to spell out full path in your exclusion files […]
I have found a great site if you are having trouble with file extensions. http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm The files listed here are all ZIP files, which contain a REG (Registry) file. Download the ZIP and open it. Extract the REG file to your hard disk and double click it. Answer yes to […]
I eventually solved this problem. Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall.up After the section on “# Allow packets that we know about through …” Add: # Allow packets from green to green /sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i $GREEN_DEV -o $GREEN_DEV -j ACCEPT Create: /var/smoothwall/ethernet/staticroutes with this in route add -net 192.168.122.0 netmask 255.255.254.0 gw […]
Setting System Time To set the system clock under Linux, use the date command. As an example, to set the current time and date to July 31, 11:16pm, type “date 07312316” (note that the time is given in 24 hour notation). If you wanted to change the year as well, […]
1) Do a TCPIP fix first TCPIP fixes reset NIC and TCPIP What I like to do on any network problem….Is to reset it ALL…. netsh int ip reset reset.log netsh firewall reset netsh winsock reset Then remove ALL NIC’s from the device manager.. In the Device Manager, select View>Show […]
I just installed the latest version of webmin on my CentOs 5 server. I have not used webmin in about 2 years, I can not believe how much the interface has improved. Webmin is a GUI control panel that lets you administer a Linux box. Here is all you need […]