Latest entry to the Software is a nice little program to compute and compare MD5 hashes

http://www.nullriver.com/products/winmd5sum

IPv6 is not enabled by default in Windows XP.  To enable see below.  no reboot required.

From the command prompt:

ipv6 install

netsh int ipv6 uninstall

IPv6 is installed by default on most new operating systems.  See Below.  This creates a significant security issue which I will post about at a later date.

Vista, Windows 7, Server 2008, MAC OS SUN, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5

The default interface command erases all commands on the particular interface places the interface in a default state which includes no shutting the interface.  Below is the configuration of an interface before and after running the default interface command.

Sales2#show run interface fastEthernet 1/0
Building configuration…

Current configuration : 128 bytes
!
interface FastEthernet1/0
description Dev Lab
ip address 192.168.3.34 255.255.255.0
shutdown
duplex auto
speed auto
end

Sales2(config)#default interface fastEthernet 1/0
Building configuration…

Interface FastEthernet1/0 set to default configuration

Sales2(config)#do show run interface f 1/0
Building configuration…

Current configuration : 83 bytes
!
interface FastEthernet1/0
no ip address
shutdown
duplex auto
speed auto
end

Google has been rolling out this feature over the past few weeks and i got it a couple of days ago.  This is another prime example of Google’s low key approach to enhancing their free or low cost cloud based services.  I can now do all the things that I was doing with Dropbox in Google Docs.  I uploaded a zip file, a picture in jpg format and a windows executable.  All uploaded correctly.

I have been exploring different methods of storing non work related docs, files and information in the cloud for easy access.  I want to access from multiple locations and from a variety of devices.  The best solution so far is google aps, toodledo and drop box.   The new iphone app for Drop Box is great.  For task management, I am trying Toodledo which is not fully baked but has a very usable iphone app.  I have been more successful with it than google tasks or Outlook tasks.

The Great Bay Beacon Endpoint Profiler 2.1.8 has a number of options for backups.  Backups are automatically run daily and manual backups can be run from the command line from the web based GUI.  The files can be manually downloaded, but the backup files are not be automatically moved to a remote location.  Below is a simple shell script that automatically backups the Profilier database and the cron job that schedules the shell script to run daily.  The cron job entry is in bold.

$ cat bugs3.sh
time=`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M_%S`
pg_dump | gzip > /home/beacon/backups/beaconbackup-$time.gz

ftp -n -i -v <<EOD
open XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
user username password
put /home/beacon/backups/beaconbackup-$time.gz /usr/local/backup/Beacon/beaconbackup-$time.gz
EOD

$ cat bugs3.sh
time=`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M_%S`
pg_dump | gzip > /home/beacon/backups/beaconbackup-$time.gz

ftp -n -i -v <<EOD
open 128.249.XXX.XXX
user appliance password
put /home/beacon/backups/beaconbackup-$time.gz /usr/local/backup/Beacon/beaconbackup-$time.gz
EOD

[beacon@Beacon ~]$ crontab -e
*iMAILTO=”"
# Check once a minute for stopped/dead components
*/1 * * * *     cd /usr/beacon; /usr/beacon/beacon resurrect
# Perform working file clean up every hour
0 */1 * * * find /usr/beacon/pending -maxdepth 1 -type f -mmin +120 -delete;
0 */1 * * * find /usr/beacon/pending -name *.xml -mmin +120 -delete;
0 */1 * * * find /usr/beacon/working -name *.xml -mmin +120 -delete;
0 */1 * * * find /usr/beacon/working/cca -name *.dump -mmin +120 -delete;

# Perform ongoing maintain every two hours
0 */6 * * *                    /usr/beacon/sql/vacuum-switch.sh va-all
15,45 * * * *                  /usr/beacon/sql/vacuum-switch.sh 15min
1,30 * * * *                   /usr/beacon/sql/vacuum-switch.sh 30min
30 */2 * * *                   /usr/beacon/sql/vacuum-switch.sh history

# Perform daily DB backups
0 3 * * *       /usr/beacon/sql/db_backup.sh
0 4 * * *       /home/beacon/bugs3.sh
# For HA maintenance.  No-op if not in HA mode
*/1 * * * *    /usr/beacon/sql/chk_status_master.sh

# For HA maintenance.  No-op if not in HA mode
*/3 * * * *    /usr/beacon/sql/check_slon.sh
1,31 * * * *   /usr/beacon/sql/check_confirm.sh

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