If your are creating a custom log and would like to use logrotate, then this tutorial is for you. In this example I will show you how I am using logrotate to rotate a custom log created during Unison File Synchronization. The log file I will be rotating is at: /var/log/unison.log. We will also create… Read More
Angry IP scanner is a very fast IP address and port scanner. It can scan IP addresses in any range as well as any their ports. It is cross-platform and lightweight. Not requiring any installations, it can be freely copied and used anywhere. Angry IP scanner simply pings each IP address to check if it’s… Read More
If you have ever done work with the Government or Military, then you know all too well that in order to access nearly any Government website you need a CAC card. Beyond needing a CAC, your machine needs to have the DOD Root CA’s installed on it as well. There are many sites that provide… Read More
Post revisions in WordPress are a great feature, however some users might not need them especially if they have limited database space, or are using WordPress as a CMS and don’t need auto-save. If this is the case, you can totally disable the post revisions feature in WordPress. This process requires editing wp-config.php located in… Read More
If you have ever patched a software package, for example Postfix using this tutorial, then you probably noticed that on the next apt-get update, apt reports that the package needs updated. Of course we don’t want apt to update the package we just patched so in comes the package hold. You probably know there are… Read More
Google’s web browser Chrome thrilled with extremely fast site rendering, a sleek design and innovative features. But it also gets criticized from data protection specialists, for reasons such as creating a unique user ID or the submission of entries to Google to generate suggestions. SRWare Iron is a real alternative. The browser is based on… Read More
If you are working with VMware ESXi Server, you are probably aware of the ability to export your entire virtual servers into handy little packages called OVA Templates. Occasionally we need to restore a server from an OVA Template but when you go to deploy the template you get the following error seen below. What… Read More
If your shop is in a situation where you have multiple admins working on group policy from different machine’s then you are most likely aware of the problems that may occur. The Microsoft management console GPO editor by default will pull the policy definition files from the computer it is being run on. On the… Read More
Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other. Unison shares a number… Read More
This is an extended Powershell script that will allow you to send an email based on my original article Send Email With Powershell. With that said, this script has been extended to allow for input parameters and SMTP authentication. The input parameters allow the script to be called from other powershell scripts.