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Category Archives: Sys Admin
Setting user expiry with ‘chage’
Learned about the chage command today. Can be used to set the expiry of a Linux account. There’s some more information about disabling user accounts.
Export Firefox bookmarks to an HTML file to back up or transfer bookmarks
FreedomBox talks
Lot’s to watch! FreedomBox talks.
Openfire
Planning to check out Openfire.
Eben Moglen and Bdale Garbee on the FreedomBox
Watched this presentation today: FreedomBox 1.0.
Also, there’s more information about the FreedomBox.
Adobe’s EchoSign
I used EchoSign for the first time today. It’s Adobe’s online electronic signature system, pretty handy.
Subscribing mailman list members via the command line
Found this article which shows how to subscribe list members via the command line:
/usr/lib/mailman/bin/add_members -r - my_list <<-EOF >sue@foo.com >bob@bar.com >EOF
Single Sign On: integrating Postfix/Kerberos/LDAP
Some reading to do concerning integrating Postfix/Kerberos with LDAP:
http://www.postfix.org/LDAP_README.html
http://www.boobah.info/howto/postfix-ldap.html
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-devel/doc/admin/conf_ldap.html
Using grep (not sed) to grab IP addresses from Apache web logs
Today I ran the following command to see how many people accessed the ProgClub wiki over the previous 5 hours:
jj5@charity:/var/log/apache2$ grep "GET /wiki/" access.log |
grep "13/Jul/2013:0" | grep -Eo '^([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}' | sort | uniq | wc