Archive for September, 2008

SpamAssassin sample procmailrc

September 29, 2008

# SpamAssassin sample procmailrc
# ==============================

# The following line is only used if you use a system-wide /etc/procmailrc.
# See procmailrc(5) for infos on what it exactly does, the short version:
# * It ensures that the correct user is passed to spamd if spamc is used
# * The folders the mail is filed to later [...]

Forwarding all incoming mails

September 23, 2008

Forwarding all incoming mails
Typical situation: So far you have used address A. Now you have a new address (B) or are using another address (B) temporarily and you want all mails received at A to be forwarded to address B.
Question:
How do I forward all mails from A to B?
Answer:
Create the file “$HOME/.forward” with only the [...]

change-admin-password

September 23, 2008

change-admin-password– changes the administrator password

 
This remote command is used to modify the admin password. Change-admin-password is interactive in that the user is prompted for the old admin password, as well as the new admin password (with confirmation).

–t ––terse
Indicates that any output data must be very concise, typically avoiding human-friendly sentences and favoring well-formatted data [...]

Reset Lost Password in Sun Application Server

September 23, 2008

Reset Lost Password in Sun Application Server
Happens to the best of us, less with system admins more with developers. But we are all human, and believe it or not we DO forget and loose passwords at least once every so often. Some time ago I wrote a tutorial on how to reset lost root password [...]

Restore/Format USB Flash Drive

September 23, 2008

Who does not have a flash memory USB drive? (128Mb – 16Gb…) Everybody does, even my dog, if I had one, would have it. However, sometimes these little dongles can be tricky to use if they are not properly formatted. The usual format for the flash memory USB drive is FAT16, and it is understood by many operating systems with no problem. But in case the drive is not formatted properly/or you think it is not formatted properly, you can always reformat it, and here is how.
The whole process [...]