batch file clone

3 May

batch file clone this will backup the c-drive to the x-drive with fast compression -clone,mode=create,src=1,dst=x:\ghost\8t429 -z1 this will restore from the x-drive to the c-drive -clone,mode=restore,src=x:\ghost\84429.gho,dst=1

multidrop fetchmail

30 Apr

multidrop fetchmail You should probably have the following in /etc/aliases: root: robert postmaster: robert music: robert And something like this in your .fetchmailrc: set postmaster=”postmaster@localhost” server pop3.demon.co.uk aka list.of.domains.involved user bdt-home there is * here (I forget the exact syntax, … Read More »

fetchmail multidrop box

30 Apr

fetchmail multidrop box You know what the problem was? Host names on the Solaris box. I think. It couldn’t figure out who the host was, so it couldn’t figure out where to put the other user IDs. Peculiar not to … Read More »

block outgoing (egress) ipcop

14 Apr

block outgoing (egress) ipcop this worked… yea.. root@ipcop:/etc/rc.d # more rc.local #!/bin/sh /sbin/iptables -F CUSTOMFORWARD # /sbin/iptables -A CUSTOMFORWARD -p tcp -s 192.168.33.12/32 –dport 80 -j DROP root@ipcop:/etc/rc.d #

ipcop egress filtering

14 Apr

ipcop egress filtering iptables -A CUSTOMINPUT -p tcp -s $GREEN –dport 80 -j DROP added the above line first, but it killed everything going out of network

dma setup for cd-rom win2000

7 Apr

Win2000 Tricks Hard Drive DMA (Direct Memory Access) DMA, in all of its flavors, is vastly superior to the PIO data transfer method to which most computers default. For those of you who are not familiar with DMA and what … Read More »

Fetchmail and Procmail – the basics

19 Jan

Fetchmail and Procmail – the basics In response to a fair few questions on these two programs (and a desire from Richard to have me do a talk on them) I’ve put together these introductory notes on the subject. http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16/misc/fetchprocmail.html