Category: Server
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Cobian Backup 10 Beta Out
One of my favorite backup programs, Cobian, has just released a new version. There is supposed to be a slew of new features, but the fact that it runs 200% faster is what caught my eye.
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Reset Windows Passwords Offline
It’s been ages since I’ve had to do this, but for those of you in need, check out this bootable iso. You pop it in and follow the on screen prompts which will quickly allow you to clear or change any local windows account. Use at your own risk, though 🙂
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Cacti – Syslog Alert SQL Insert
I was inserting lots of new syslog alerts and didn’t want to do it through the GUI, so I wrote a quick mysql query: INSERT INTO syslog_alert (name,type,message,user,date,email) VALUES("MessageTitle","messagec","MatchMe","ADMIN",1186586067,"[email protected]"),("MessageTitle2","messagec","MatchMe2","ADMIN",1186586067,"[email protected]")
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Apache – IP Address Restrictions
I wanted to protect my web-meetme folder on my trixbox install, so I made a couple of allowances in the apache config file like so. <Directory /var/www/html/web-meetme> #Order allow,deny Order deny,allow deny from all allow from 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 allow from 1.1.1.1/255.255.255.255 </Directory> Note the allow/deny entries.
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Search Files In Linux For Text String
This is easily accomplished via the grep command. grep “find text” /home/greg/*.txt The same search but will go recursively down the structure. grep -r “find text” /home/greg/*.txt The following is recursion and it will also print the file name that the text was found in. grep -H -r “find text” /home/greg/*.txt
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Asterisk Selective Outbound Routing
I had a customer of mine that a single user inside their office needed an 800 number routed to them…not a big deal. What we did was to order an additional DID from their SIP provider Vitelity. The number was provisioned and I forwarded it from the incoming trunk to the users phone. I made…
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Add An AUP(Acceptable Use Policy) To Your Windows Machine
If you are on a domain you can simply do this with group policy. If you are doing it on a machine you just log into locally you use the local group policy editor: Start => Run => gpedit.msc Computer Config => Windows Settings => Security Settings => Local Settings => Security Options Interactive logon:…