Month: August 2012

Trying to understand why mail is not being sent ? [For Sendmail] If your  tail -f /var/log/maillog logs are showing something like this: Aug 30 22:43:06 netman sendmail[8100]: starting daemon (8.14.4): SMTP+queueing@01:00:00 Aug 30 22:43:06 netman sm-msp-queue[8109]: starting daemon (8.14.4): queueing@01:00:00 Aug 30 22:43:11 netman sendmail[8102]: q7SIq1Kk011256: to=<david.saliba@jial.com>, ctladdr=<root@netman.lan> (0/0), delay=2+04:51:10, xdelay=00:00:05, mailer=esmtp, pri=3720580, relay=alt4.jial-smtp-in.l.gogglee.com. [XX.125.142.26],…

Assuming you want to NAT the network on eth1 and route the traffic to eth0 this is the spell: Create the forwarding rule: /sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE and then enable IP forwarding  echo “1” > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward OR sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1   Permanent setting using /etc/sysctl.conf If we want to make…

Creating a time-stamp  in windows can be usful for the automated backups we all SHOULD be doing 🙂   pkzip c:\<source>\*.* c:\<target>\TempZip.zip ren C:\<target>\TempZip.Zip c:\<target>\TempZip_%date:~-4,4%%date:~-7,2%%date:~-10,2%.zip   Or simply to create a directory for copying open files (Lawrence 🙂 ) set backdir=%date:~-4,4%%date:~-7,2%%date:~-10,2% mkdir %backdir% cd %backdir% etc..