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Very easy 2-factor Auth with Mobile App intigration

Instead of setting up a mail server for fail2ban us sSMTP to use gmail SMTP servers to send mail.

du -sh /path to directory

Command line for Windows admins http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntadmincommands.php

bacula failed to backup network clients after creating a new storage point. i had to load bconsole to create a new label for the new storage point. viewing the messages through bconsole was what alerted me to this.

setup a test webfarm with Web Farm Framework and ARR to do provisioning and load-balancing. one little problem i found was i had to reinstall webdeploy since in the typical setup it didn’t install the service needed to provision apps. then i had to install ARR 2.5 to do the balancing. in test it seems to be working good. installed on server 2008 64 in test hyper-v setup.

to check what updates have been installed use this command –
WMIC QFE
outputting to a text file is easier to read use the > to do it

bacula was working fine backing up my win 7 workstation then yesterday the damon was stopped and restarting it fails.  I looked into the logs and noticed that it couldn’t start because the one backup job was missing, I put the backup job back in and bacula started up.

this will could how many files in a particular directory

ls -l | wc -l

this command will include all files including sub-directories but not the files in the sub-directories

after doing a restart on the exchange server i still had connectivity issues.   i stopped the transport service once again and restarted it and mail was flowing.   i believe this issue was caused by a microsoft update but i have to research further.