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id: cannot find name for group ID 10034
Warning: If you do this you can kill your Samba Install. I take no responsibility if you damage your installation if you action anything on this website. Problem: id: cannot find name for group ID 10034 Background: I think the above error message was from deleting...
Does your IP Address have a Bad Reputation?
I recently moved my company's Administration Offices from one site to another. Simple I thought. Purchase a new internet connection move the email server and reconfigure email to be sent and received on the new internet connection Apparently not. A few days after...
wxPerl Fedora 11
Update: See comment from Dave Cross below for a safer method of installing CPAN modules on an RPM system. The current wxPerl shipped with Fedora is Broken (version 0.91-1.fc11)... Still. /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error:...
Internet Explorer 6 on Linux Cleanup Script
This is a quick and dirty hack I use to kill the zombie processes left after running an ies4linux install of Internet Explorer 6. #!/bin/sh ps -ef | grep wineserver | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -9 ps -ef | grep explorer.exe | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -9 ps...
Google SMTP Settings in Thunderbird 3 Beta
If you are using Google Apps IMAP Mail in Thunderbird 3.0b2 you might have trouble sending email until you set your secure SMTP settings to look like this: I followed the online info Google posts but it looks like the new tb3.0b2 has some mislabelled settings. Once I...
Cisco 877 – Squid Cache
I recently went from having a Linux CentOS release 5.3 gateway firewall running Squid Cache: Version 2.6.STABLE21 to a Cisco 877 ADSL gateway. Very quickly my users complained of r_e_a_l_l_y slow internet. With only the Cisco 877 in place every single request was...