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Just a few notes for myself here today. about the robocopy command: Command that makes sure all rights are preserved and changed/new data is monitored and copied every 10 minutes: robocopy "\\source_servername\d$" "\\destination_servername\d$" /COPYALL /E /V /NP /ETA /XO /MON:10 /MOT:5 /LOG:logfile.txt another command I used once, forgot what is special about this one: robocopy…

De meest eenvoudige manier : start regedit – Ga naar HKLM\System\MountedDevices Daar heb je alle drives, een voorbeeld: "\\DosDevices\\C:"=hex:ea,c5,5a,0c,00,7e,00,00,00,00,00,00 De eerste 4 waardes is een disk identifier. De twee waardes daarop geven het begin van de partitie aan, maar in omgekeerde volgorde: dus 7E 00 (32256) Dus op byte 32256 begint onze partitie. Elke sector…

Just had a problem with Freenas Bittorent deamon: Error on the webpage: The changes could not be applied (error code 1). Error in the logfile: transmission-daemon: transmission-daemon Error loading config file — exiting. (daemon.c:401) Solution: /usr/home/transmission/.config/transmission-daemon# rm settings.json AND Set the User Mask permissions to Default (0002)

Just officially released two days ago: Fedora Core 13. I installed it in a VM and I'm hosting this website from it. I ran into an annoying problem: vmtools wouldn't install. I had installed the kernel headers, kernel-dev and the latest kernel. Still I got this error: "The directory of kernel headers (version @@VMWARE@@ UTS_RELEASE)…

I’m using a 1TB disk on Freenas 0.71 that I will divide into several partitions. #unmount partitions created earlier umount /dev/da1p1 umount /dev/da1p2 umount /dev/da1p3

The command that manipulates mailboxes from CLI is zmmailbox. The following features are very usable:   Place user account into maintenance mode. This will prevent delivery of new mail messages until we finish with the backup procedure: zmprov ma <user> zimbraAccountStatus maintenance Archive user's mailbox in tar.gz format: zmmailbox -z -m <user> getRestURL "//?fmt=tgz" >…

My Speedtouch 780WL has an option called NAT Loopback that allows you to access the external IP address from inside your home network. This is useful because if you run a server inside your network you can use the same IP address (and so hostname) to address the server both at home and when you…

The full sequence of commands  for adding and removing LUN's on an HPUX system : ioscan -Cdisk insf -eCdisk powermt display paths powermt restore powermt check (remove dead paths) powermt config powermt save powermt display paths

  Article writen by David Mair (Novell), it's interesting enough to store it in my own knowledgebase. Most major Linux distributions, SuSE ones included, feature some user interface for firewall configuration. There's nothing wrong with them but I couldn't get quite the configuration I wanted and chose to create configurations manually. The iptables man pages…

Log in on gssftp server without the need of using Kerberos authentication: -bash-3.00$ vi /etc/xinetd.d/gssftp # default: off# description: The kerberized FTP server accepts FTP connections \#              that can be authenticated with Kerberos 5.service ftp{ disable = no flags           = REUSE socket_type     = stream wait            = no user            = root server          = /usr/kerberos/sbin/ftpd #server_args    =…

Since 1999 I've been working in the Information Technology business. In these years I've seen a lot of bad software that makes you go crazy. That really makes you appreciate the great software that's out there. For instance VMware and Quovadx Cloverleaf software. I haven't written any articles about Cloverleaf because it's really a niche…