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GPG in cron

I have data recieved from ftp, which is encoded using GnuPG software. To get files nightly, I used cron task scheduler. But there were problem when decoding gpg files (when ran shell script, everything went ok, but when cron initialised, no decrypt...

Crontab paths

If you use linux crontab to automate some processes, allways use full path to scripts or other executable files. Recently, I was writing one script, which uses munpack utility. Tested it - worked with no problems. After adding script to crontab, t...

Gentoo pwconv

After Gentoo update (the big one:) crontab stopped working to non-root users. I use crontab as postgres user to make my daily database backups. After checking messages log in /var/log/messages I found this line: cron: Authentication ser...

Ubuntu TP600

I have an old laptop IBM ThinkPad 600. Recently, installed Ubuntu linux on it. There is a little problem. New Ubuntu 6.10 installation works as live cd. So, you boot from live cd, then install it to your PC. Problem is, that in old laptop there is on...

dpi problems

Sometimes, in kde occurs such a problem. All fonts in menu, applications and so one becomes very small. It occured after my monitor downgrade (resolution changed from 1600x1280 to 1024x768). At first, I tried to increase font size in KDE control cent...

SA rules

If you need to write custom rules to spamassassin and trere are a few of them. For example, you want to get rid of some spam which goes through spamassassin and mail's score almost reaches score, to be marked as spam. Simply add rules to /etc/...

USB win98SE

Windows 98SE supports USB hotplugging, but does not have generic usb storage driver. Recently I found sollution here: http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/usbmsd98.php. Just download that generic driver and install. I did testing on some usb key...

IE blank

There is a problem in the Internet explorer rendering engine. If page is written not correctly (e.g. html and body end tag is missing), Internet Explorer detects wrong character encoding, even if there is meta tag. In my situation there were website ...

Explorer bug

After you install Internet Explorer with the Windows Desktop Update component, the New command may be missing from File menu in Windows Explorer or if you right-click the desktop. Sollution is to edit one record in registry. Notice: be carefull whil...

Linux date

Simpliest way to set date and time in linux with command date: date MMDDhhmm Where MM - is numeric month value, DD - day, hh - hour, mm - minute For example, to set May 18th 20hour 13 minutes: date 05182013 [!GuestBook?gbty...