Category Archives: Note to self

[Note2Self] – Regex match multiple blocks

Posted on August 19, 2011 by pctony

pattern => ‘^[a-z][a-z0-9_]{1,15}$’    

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ps on Solaris cut at 80 chars, no longer…

Posted on May 1, 2011 by pctony

If like me you always forget that Solaris will trim the output of the command in ps to 80 chars, you will know just how annoying it can be.  Well I finally found a half decent way of seeing the … Continue reading →

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Mutt – Mark all messages as read

Posted on October 2, 2010 by pctony

So, for as good as mutt is, it doesn’t have a default keybinding to allow you to mark all messages in a given mail folder as read.  It’s easily do-able, all you need todo is create a macro. macro index … Continue reading →

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Postfix + SASL + Dovecot

Posted on June 10, 2009 by pctony

After trying to find a way to make my postfix installation allow authenticated users (over TLS will come later) relay mail using SASL, on a CentOS machine using only CentOS packages I discovered it was not as easy as I … Continue reading →

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Self induced regex coma

Posted on October 2, 2008 by pctony

Tonight I had a need to produce some output to be used in conjunction with Apache HTTPD’s mod_autoindex. This site will eventually have frequent updates, so we wanted to use HEADER.html to show the recent changes, and making them links … Continue reading →

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Flash on a TS/Citrix Server

Posted on September 5, 2008 by pctony

I have been battling to get this working, properly when deployed on a Windows 2003 SP2 or above server. Earlier this afternoon I found this article buried in the Adobe forum, guess what, it works!  Much to my amazement.   … Continue reading →

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