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FreeBSD – Configure sendmail masquerading

Posted by on June 5, 2007 No comments

Notes on masquerading your domain name , I needed that since one SMS gateway will not accept my nagios@server.domain.com emails , this setting allowed nagios to send the email as nagios@domain.com

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How to update Timezone info in FreeBSD

Posted by on January 11, 2007 1 comment

1. fetch ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007a.tar.gz
2. mkdir timezone && cd timezone && tar zxvf ../tzdata2007a.tar.gz
3. sudo tar cf /usr/share/zoneinfo.tar /usr/share/zoneinfo
4. sudo zic northamerica ( or whatever timezone you are intrested in ) 
5. zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York  | grep 2007

Copy Directory Structure Using Tar

Posted by on May 26, 2006 No comments

Need to copy or archive of directory structure without any files ? this worked for me : 

tar cnpf dir.tar `find . -type d`