Q. How do I format date to display on screen on for my scripts as per my requirements?
A. You need to use standard date command to format date or time for output or to use in a shell script.
Syntax to specify format
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Mar 09 2010
Setting up DomainKeys on Centos
This is a quick walk through on how to set up domain keys on Centos 5 using sendmail. It should also be very similar for Redhat or Fedora.
Domainkeys is a method mostly used by yahoo to verify that the sender of an email is valid. I did notice that gmail changes the domainkeys header line to a pass value but I don’t know if they block/accept mail based on that. Read more …
Dec 18 2009
Setup a transparent proxy with 3 easy steps
First, Squid server installed (use up2date squid) and configured by adding following directives to file:
# vi /etc/squid/squid.conf
Most of them involve changing the daemon’s configuration in /etc/sendmail.mc and rebuilding sendmail.cf
Specific things that can affect performance:
dnl # Sendmail, Chap 24.9.13, Page 955
dnl # Disable re-write of queue control file (will result in duplicates
dnl # if the daemon is interrupted during a delivery)
define(`confCHECKPOINTINTERVAL’,`0′)dnl Read more …
