ps -eo pid | xargs pargs -l

Enjoy!

macro index M "T.*\n;WN" "Mark all messages as read"

That’s it. Simple eh? This will make an “M” keystroke mark all messages in the current folder (in the index view) as read.

So after installing cyrus-sasl, postfix and dovecot all I needed to do was:

Edit /etc/postfix/main.cf  – At the end of your configuration add:

smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,permit_sasl_authenticated,reject_unauth_destination
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth

Don’t forget that postfix by default runs in it’s own chroot jail, so the smptd_sasl_path above is relative to the postfix root. So in my case on CentOS 5 that equates to “/var/spool/postfix/private/auth”

Now go on and edit your /etc/dovecot.conf file.  Find the lines

userdb passwd {
}

Then add this immediately below it

socket listen {
client {
path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode = 0660
user = postfix
group = postfix
}
}

Now all you need to do is restart postfix, dovecot and (re)start saslauthd

/etc/init.d/postfix restart
/etc/init.d/dovecot restart
/etc/init.d/saslauthd restart

If you now telnet to your mail server on port 25, and use EHLO you should be able to see the following

ehlo me
250-your.server.domain.com
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250 DSN

My next posting will include details on how to extend this to include the use of TLS

Using ls -1td /path/to/files/*/* we get the output of the all content. We then pipe that through head, to essentially count the number of rows we want to show.

Finally we use sed a few times, to remove the file system paths that don’t relate to URL path, add the appropriate html tags, and using backreferences we re-use the matched string.

So what we have ended up with is :

ls -1td /foo/*/* | head -n 3 | sed -r s/[^\e]foo// | sed -r s/\(.*\)/\<li\>\<a\ href=\"\\1\"\>\\1/ | sed -r s/$/\<\\/li\>/ 

So lets break this down.

sed -r s/[^\e]foo//   –  This essentially strips the leading file system path that doesn’t relate to the webpath.

sed -r s/\(.*\)/\<li\>\<a\ href=\"\\1\"\>\\1/   –  This function essentialy takes the entire string, as is from the previous replacment, it then prepends the <li> and <a href> tags.

sed -r s/$/\<\\/li\>/   –  This bit adds the trailing </li> tag.

So we go from

  # ls -1td /foo/*/*

/foo/Audio/Audio_track-1.mp3
/foo/Audio/Audio_track-2.mp3

To

<li><a href=”/Audio/Audio_track-1.mp3″>/Audio/VAudio_track-1.mp3</li>
<li><a href=”/Audio/Audio_track-2.mp3″>/Audio/VAudio_track-2.mp3</li>

This is a little more complex than what I have had to deal with in the past. Granted to some of you this may be a simple task, but us Windows folks do things the hard way. Whilst I am it, I don’t claim that this the best, or most technically accurate way of achieving the required results. It has however taught me several new regex methods, such as back references, and that has to be a good thing, right?

One for the ‘note-to-self’ category

1. Download the latest Flash uninstaller on this page, and place it somewhere on your hard disk (C:\Temp is a good place)
2. Open a command prompt, navigate to the folder where you placed the uninstaller and run it with the “/clean” option, like this: “uninstall_flash_player.exe /clean” (without quotes – thanks Adobe for so clearly documenting any command line options for this tool…NOT !)
3. Click the Details button. If it lists any files as “Delete on reboot”, then reboot now. Otherwise, just carry on.
4. Download the EXE installation package from here
5. Use the Control Panel Add/Remove programs method to install it. This ensures that the Windows install notification API triggers correctly (as opposed to executing change user /install in a command prompt).
6. Use regedit and find the following key: HKCR\CLSID\{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000} (on 64-bit Windows this one is located under HKCR\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000})
7. Remove any permissions for the Everyone group. click Advanced and tick the box to propagate the permissions to all child objects.
8. Add the Everyone group and give it “Read” permissions on the key. Again, click the Advanced button and propagate the permissions to all child objects.
9. Repeat steps 6 to 8 on the subsequent key, called HKCR\CLSID\{D27CDB70-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}

Windows popped up today and told me I may have been using illegal version of Microsoft software. Whaaaaat? This is a $work installation of Vista. Using the VLK.  The error I was presented with is :

Code: 0x8007232B
Description: DNS name does not exist.

Odd, I had no other issues with name resolution.  A lot of google bashing resulted in one suggested error that during the initial install the network drivers failed to load quickly enough to complete the activation process. Resulting in this limbo state.

The Fix: Right click my computer, select “Re Enter My Product Key” – Do this and allow the process to complete.  Voilla! All works fine now.  Phew!

• Fire up ADUC
• Use find, at the domain level.
• Change to the Advanced Tab
• Use the field function to select: User > Exchange Home Server
• Then change condition to: Ends With
• Enter the name of you mail server, in the value field.
• Click Add
• Click Find
• Select all mailboxes, and either move or remove Exchange Attributes

This took me the best part of 15 minutes on how to complete.  Bloody thing!