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Sendmail from the command line
echo -e To: 'The Persons Name ' \\n\\n Body of mail \ | /usr/sbin/sendmail -F "From Name" \ -f [email protected] -t [email protected] Where -e says I want to interpret \\n as a newline. -F is the from description -f is the from address -t is the to address Example:...
Linux /tmp size for DVD burning
I was just trying to burn the Fedora 11 Preview DVD in XUbuntu and the default burning application logically uses /tmp as the location for temporary image files. However my /tmp only had about 2.9 GB free space The DVD is 3.8G and so the DVD burn failed due to lack of...
IIBYGTKBP – If it breaks you get to keep both parts
IIBYGTKBP. I saw this acronym on the linux-users email list A Google didn't enlighten me. So I delved into wet memory and came up with what it means by recalling the poster who used the full version of IIBYGTKBP in the past. So here it is - IIBYGTKBP: If it breaks you...
Organic Feast Cafe
Went to Organic Feast for a Coffee on the weekend. As you do at Cafe's you grab a magazine. My wife found me a magazine named "The Owner Builder". I loved it. So many real life experiences of people building low cost but very interesting structures. By the end of the...
KDE4
So I have haunted the linux-users mailing list for about um (1999-2009) 10 years. And the discussion turned to KDE4 and well frankly there wasn't many people saying it 'completes me'. Quite the opposite. So seeing I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 I though I would install...
Exchange fails to deliver to a Single Mailbox
Problem: I had a user that wasn't getting any internal / external emails. There was nothing in the logs and nothing to indicate why the Local Delivery queue was stalled for all emails that had them as a recipient. Troubleshooting: I Opened the Exchange System Manager...