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- Send mail with eSMTP for a simple, single-user system
- Vincent Danen introduces you to eSMTP, a lightweight mail "server" solution that also allows per-user configuration files, making it useful even for multi-user systems. by Vincent Danen
- Tags: Password, Sendmail Inc., eSMTP, Vincent Danen, Configuration File, Linux, Servers, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- SendIgence (zip)
- SendIgence is a software for efficient management of periodic or bulk e-mail sending. SendIgence is simple to use and it can be run either interactively terminal window or by using configuration files in XML format. Configuration files are usually prepared in interactive SendIgence session or edited manually (an XML editor...
- Tags: C3M, SendIgence, Configuration File, E-mail, XML, Online Communications, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-01-24
- Encrypting .NET configuration files through code
- Encryption support for configuration files was added to the .NET Framework beginning with version 2.0. Last week's article focused on using ASP.NET command-line tools for encrypting portions of configuration files, while this week's article covers coding options. The .NET Framework libraries include full support for controlling encryption and decryption in...
- Tags: ASP.NET, Security
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- Encrypting configuration data in ASP.NET 2.0
- I've covered how to work with configuration files in ASP.NET 2.0 and explained configuration file processing, now I'll show how to protect data stored in a configuration file via encryption and describe new features available in ASP.NET 2.0. I begin with an overview of the encryption options and continue with...
- Tags: ASP.NET, .NET Newsletter
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Working with configuration files in ASP.NET 2.0
- What about other sections in config filesHandy for sure for some sections.You've mentioned web.config files which have sections that have accessor methods for reading but what about other sections in config files other than those with accessor methods, it's not so easy, try the UserSettings section in config file, see...
- Tags: .NET, niallf, configuration file, ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft ASP.NET
- Discussion threads 2007-06-20
- Working with configuration files in ASP.NET 2.0
- The second iteration of ASP.NET includes a number of enhancements for working with configuration files. Configuration files include a variety of ASP.NET settings, as well as facilitate the use of custom data elements. While it isn't a difficult process to retrieve data values using ASP.NET 1.1, the improvements in 2.0...
- Tags: Programming, ASP.NET, .NET Newsletter
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Automount filesystems with flexible AutoFS tool
- Vincent Danen describes the AutoFS automounter and walks you through setup and configuration. In a previous tip, I looked at the Amd automounting daemon and how to use it to provide on-demand access to remote NFS shares. Amd is purely a user-space tool, available for Linux and...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., AutoFS, Vincent Danen, Linux, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, file system, tool, Linux Tips Newsletter, Directory, Configuration File, Software
- Technical articles 2007-04-20
- Understand ASP.NET 2.0 configuration file processing
- Are you confused by the numerous options available with ASP.NET 2.0 configuration files? Tony Patton helps you make sense of how ASP.NET 2.0 uses machine.config and web.config configuration files. Configuration files are an important aspect of .NET development. ASP.NET applications have web.config and other configuration files, while...
- Tags: Microsoft .NET, Microsoft ASP.NET, ASP.NET Machine, Middleware, Tony Patton, .NET, configuration file, ASP.NET 2.0, .NET Newsletter, Directory, Application, Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0, Location Element, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- Technical articles 2007-02-13
- Automate configuration backups with subversion
- Vincent Danen explains how subversion can be used to keep track of revisions to configuration files. Backups are important, and incremental backups work even better because you can refer to or retrieve early copies of important files you may have changed, such as a configuration file that...
- Tags: Vincent Danen, Backups, configuration file, subversion, backup, Linux Tips Newsletter, SVN, Linux, Operating Systems, Software
- Technical articles 2006-12-11
- Understand ASP.NET 2.0 configuration file processing
- Configuration files are an important aspect of .NETdevelopment. ASP.NET applications have web.config and other configurationfiles, while non-Web applications have app.config.Here's a closer look at how ASP.NET 2.0 uses configuration files (specifically machine.configand web.config).The filesASP.NET 2.0 includes a number of configuration files with astandard .NET installation. The following list provides an...
- Tags: ASP.NET 2.0, ASP.NET Machine, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft ASP.NET, Software engineering/development, Tony Patton
- Technical articles 2007-02-13
- could you solve that?
- Hello! I have a problem and I think you can help me. This must be in C and run in Linux. The problem is to write an application which periodical verify if a website is active. The list of websites will be read from a configuration file. You will determine...
- Tags: amigo_bogdan@..., Web site
- Discussion threads 2007-02-11
- could you solve that?
- Hello! I have a problem and I think you can help me. This must be in C and run in Linux. The problem is to write an application which periodical verify if a website is active. The list of websites will be read from a configuration file. You will determine...
- Tags: amigo_bogdan@..., Web site
- Discussion threads 2007-02-11
- Ease logfile monitoring with swatch
- If monitoring log files has become too much to manage, there is a simple tool called swatch that will help you get a handle on the most important log information. Vincent Danen tells you how to set up swatch. The ability to monitor log files is fantastic; the problem...
- Tags: Perl, Swatch, Vincent Danen, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, Monitors & displays, monitoring, configuration file, monitor, Linux Tips Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., File, E-mail, Linux, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Hardware, Components, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software
- Technical articles 2006-07-17
- Using syslog-ng for log handling
- Handle Linux system logs with the syslog-ng tool and overcome the shortcomings of other logging tools. The de facto standard of system log handling is to use the syslog daemon. While this is usually sufficient, there are some drawbacks to using syslog. For one, it cannot rotate...
- Tags: UDP, Linux, Vincent Danen, TCP/IP, NETWORKING, OPEN SOURCE, configuration file, log message, system logger, Linux Tips Newsletter, Message, Entry, Tool, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software
- Technical articles 2005-08-26
- Use Windows Media 9 Series to create live broadcasts
- With Windows Media 9 Server, you can serve up live broadcasts as a multicast, which means that only one stream serves to the clients that request it. Here's how to use the Windows Media Encoder 9 engine Encoder to create a live multimedia broadcast from a Web...
- Tags: Windows Media, Windows Media 9, Encoder, Microsoft Windows, Phillip Perkins, Digital music, Corporate communications, Digital media, configuration file, Web Development Zone Newsletter, HTML, Screen, Client, Broadcaster, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Technical articles 2005-07-27
- Map multimedia keyboard keys with hotkeys
- When it comes to working with multimedia keyboards, Linux user can turn to the hotkeys program for help. Find out how to use hotkeys to configure your multimedia keyboard. Delivered each Tuesday, TechRepublic's free Linux NetNote provides tips, articles, and other resources to help...
- Tags: Keyboards, Linux, Vincent Danen, keyboard, configuration file, multimedia, Linux Tips Newsletter, Multimedia Keyboard, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software
- Technical articles 2005-04-18
- allowdefinition=machineapplication
- While trying to access Reports section error occuring.Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately. Parser Error Message: It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication'...
- Tags: swapna_domakuntla@...
- Q&A 2005-08-18
- Catch malicious network activity with a Honeyd virtual honeypot
- Recently I explained the differences between realand virtual honeypots to show how they can effectively protect yournetwork. In that article, I pointed out a few advantages virtual honeypots hadover their real counterpartsnamely, low cost and low overhead. For thisarticle, I want to focus on setting up a virtual honeypot....
- Tags: Honeyd, Brien M. Posey MCSE, network
- Technical articles 2004-05-19
- Get ready for legacy systems' disaster recovery complications
- Obsolescence is everywhere, planned or otherwiseIn an ideal world, we would always like to think that, neither configuration nor data exists on the client PC. For Disaster Recovery to even be contemplated, IF you cannot go, as a user, from one Client PC, to another and be able to access,...
- Tags: configuration file, disaster recovery, it management, legacy system, Obsolescence, zczc2311
- Discussion threads 2005-02-22
- A tour of the PHP.INI configuration file, part 1
- You don't often needto fiddle with PHP's settingsthe language usually works fine with itsout-of-the-box configuration. But the creators of PHP, being developersthemselves, were well aware that users might occasionally need to tweak thelanguage's behavior for specialized applications. That's why they exposed anumber of PHP's variables through a configuration file, called...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Guest Contributor, PHP, configuration file
- Technical articles 2004-07-20
