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Entries from August 2008

Windows 2003 Update Group Policy

August 29th, 2008 · No Comments

From Microsoft knowledgebase article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298444 To update the group policy, run Gpupdate.exe from a cmd window.  This is refresh any changes in the Group Policy as they apply to that machine.  Run Gpupdate.exe /Force from a cmd window in order to force a full refresh of the Group Policy. You have to check Event Log [...]

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Tags: How Tos · microsoft · windows 2003

How to update qmail relay rules

August 20th, 2008 · No Comments

D. J. Bernstein’s Qmail, now in the public domain, is a powerful yet clumsy SMTP messaging system. One of the most common problems is updating the rules for allowing SMTP relay, or denying the same. If you qmail-smtpd under tcpserver, the following will update relay allow and relay forbid rules. Create a file called /etc/tcp.smtp [...]

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Tags: Email Servers · How Tos · qmail

perl howto push a hash onto an array

August 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments

use Data::Dumper; my @array; push @array, {‘key1′ => ‘value1′, ‘key2′ => ‘value2′}; push @array, {‘key1′ => ‘value1′, ‘key2′ => ‘value2′}; push @array, {‘key1′ => ‘value1′, ‘key2′ => ‘value2′}; print Dumper(@array); Will give you: $VAR1 = { ‘key2′ => ‘value2′, ‘key1′ => ‘value1′ }; $VAR2 = { ‘key2′ => ‘value2′, ‘key1′ => ‘value1′ }; $VAR3 = [...]

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Tags: How Tos · perl · Programming