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In the past few days my Postfix server has been having occasional problems talking to the mail gateway. They problem would come and go. The Postfix server would timeout trying to connect to the gateway and keep …

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Find Command with Multiple Exec Statements

February 10, 2011 – 12:32 am | 2 Comments
Find Command with Multiple Exec Statements

This is a very simple one, but somehow I always forget the correct syntax. I want to use the “find” command to locate files and then use several “exec” statements to perform various operations on whatever “find” finds. In the following example I am making sure that all /etc/*.conf files are owned by root and that they don’t have permissions greater than 644.

How to Really Kill Computer Viruses

February 21, 2010 – 6:34 am | 13 Comments
How to Really Kill Computer Viruses

How do you know if your computer has a virus? Is it connected to the Internet? Then it has a virus. Many computer viruses and other malicious applications are very resilient and will actively resist any attempts to deactivate and remove them. Some viruses can even delete your antivirus application or prevent it from working properly. Many viruses cannot be effectively removed once they are loaded in memory and active.

Protected: Notes on Electronic Security

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Protected: Notes on Electronic Security

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Find largest files

November 19, 2005 – 11:17 pm | 3 Comments
Find largest files

How to find the largest files in the directory tree on Solaris.