Michael King - Work

Hubconnect

nospam@example.com (Michael King) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:38:00 -0700

http://www.mpking.com/uploads/HUB-Connect.exe

Color LS

nospam@example.com (Michael King) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:00:36 -0700

Note: I think this changed in later releases of Debian (Verison 4.0) but I'm keeping it just in case

In Debian, if you want to have the ls command return it's results in color, you have to type it ls --color. Since I'm not one for more typing, this wouldn't do. There is a bunch of info on the Net this all misleading and contridictory on how to best enable this on Debian.

Not to be left out, here's my contribution

First, edit your .bash_profile file in the username you log into.

At the top of the file include the line export TERM=xterm-color
Then uncomment the following section

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi

Then in your .bashrc file

* Make sure that this section is uncommented (Should be by default)

# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
if [ "$TERM" != "dumb" ]; then
eval `dircolors -b`
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical'
alias vdir='ls --color=auto --format=long'
fi

That should be it. Just log out and log in again. Later on I'll figure out which of the /etc files you edit to apply this to the new user template.

Print Info from Meridian Mail

nospam@example.com (Michael King) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:59:42 -0700

Part of my Job is adminstering a Meridian Mail Voicemail system. Occasionally I have to print information that I'm searching for.

Using Procomm Plus, It's possible to print this infromation.

   1. Create a Generic / Text Only Printer. Do this (on Windows XP)by:
         1. Select Add a Printer
         2. Hit next on the Wizard, Select "Local Printer Attached to this computer", Deselect "Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play Printer" and hit Next
         3. In the "Use the Following Port:" dialog, from the drop down box, select FILE: (Print to File) and press Next.
         4. In the next screen, From the Manufacturer select Generic and in the Model box select Generic / Text Only and hit Next.
         5. Hit Next on the rest of the dialog boxes, and you should be done. You might want to change the Default printer question to No.
   2. In Procomm, select the Generic Text Only Printer in the Printer Setup dialog
   3. In Notepad, type out the path of the file you want to save it to, and put copy it to the clipboard.
   4. Select Print from Procomm
   5. A box will pop up asking for the filename. Paste the filename you prepared in step 3 into this box. You have to do this VERY quickly.
   6. Leave it alone until Meridian Mail stops saying Working.

Finding Stale Mailboxes in Meridian Mail

nospam@example.com (Michael King) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:55:49 -0700

Sometimes when you have a large enterprise, and a old installation you lose track of mailboxes. Other times, people just stop using them, and leave, and never tell you they're gone.

Here's a quick way to print out a list of mailboxes that the system has marked "Stale"

Open up Meridian Mail and login.

   1. Select System Status and Maintenance
   2. Select System Event and Error Reports (SEERS)
   3. Select SEER Retrieval
   4. In SEER Class, put in 91, this is the only info you need to enter, unless you have more than one report. (Small Systems may have multiple reports)
   5. Either select show report, or Print it.

That's all there is too it. It will actually show you how many days it's been since someone logged into the mailbox.

Cisco Clean Access DNS Rules

nospam@example.com (Michael King) — Thu, 05 May 2005 14:43:00 -0700

Back by popular google index demand:

This list is no longer necessary, since around version 4.0 Cisco has included this list by default.

Here's a list of DNS Rules that we the user community have determined thru our own testing.

Allowed Host	Match	Description
update.microsoft.com	ends	Windows Update
activeupdate.trendmicro.com	ends	Trend Micro updates
grisoft.com	ends	AVG AntiVirus
grisoft.cz	ends	AVG AntiVirus
www.howtotell.com	equals	Legal Microsoft Software
security.symantec.com	equals	Symantec Live Scan
www.spreadfirefox.org	equals	Firefox Downloads
mozilla.org	ends	Firefox Downloads
mcafee.com	ends	McAfee AntiVirus HTTP Update
pccreg.antivirus.com	equals	Trend Micro Update
trendmicro.com	ends	Trend Micro Update
activex.microsoft.com	ends	Microsoft Windows Update
codecs.microsoft.com	ends	Microsoft Windows Update