we are running keepass to store our password for servers, weblogins and anything that has a password. now a while ago we started using keepass version 1. it was light and linux had version 1 in the repositories of the distros. then we decided to move over to version 2 as it had way more functionality that we would use. linux doesn’t have version 2 in the repositories.

now keepass is originally a windows program and the developers have been developing it for mobile phones, gaming consoles, etc. this all works great on version 1. but version 2, no.

when i first tried to get keepass v2 working i tried it with wine. it installed fine and also the portable version ran fine. but when you loaded the password database, it would crash. but creating a new database file worked no problems. we were not about to redo EVERYTHING into a new database file. that is just too much hassle. no matter what i tried, i could not get it to run on wine properly. so i gave up, for the time being. i ended up installing virtualbox with a windows xp virtual machine and just run keepass from there. dirty i know, but what can one do?

then someone mentioned something called Mono (cross platform, open source .NET development framework). firstly when i checked this out i was like, such a mission and couldn’t get it working properly, until today i dedicated an hour (which turned into 3 hours) to try and get this working.

for ubuntu or any other similar distros (debian, linux mint)
what i did was:

apt-get install mono-devel monodevelop monodoc mono-gmcs mono-gac mono-utils monodevelop monodoc-browser monodevelop-nunit monodevelop-versioncontrol

once that is done change to your directory where keepass is (in my case i downloaded the portable version)

then i ran

mono KeePass.exe

it started keepass BUT it didn’t show any words or characters.

i searched google some more and found out that xserver-xorg-video-intel needs to be upgraded. my version was 2.9.0 (default install) and this had to be upgraded to 2.9.1

all you do is add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list (i’m not running the latest ubuntu yet)

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

then do

apt-get update

followed by

apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel

then i think i rebooted and once it was rebooted i ran a mono KeePass.exe and walla! KeePass V2 under linux!

if any of you actually do use keepass and having trouble, don’t be shy to ask for help!

i’m trying to get the 2 projects up and running soonish, while doing my day job AND trying to keep my blog always filled with interesting content, but alas i have been very slack about it and i apologise. i know some of the other big bloggers out there rely on OTHER people to give them content or write content but i like to find interesting articles or things myself making it me and not promote it as their own while others are the source of their articles. get what i’m saying? oh, and keep up with the times you people, posting stuff that happened last week now is not on. seems like you people don’t have fresh content and rely on other bloggers content to freshen yours? just saying. OH! one more thing…if you do get content from other sources, pictures, videos, etc…please please please just link back to the original site or mention the author or photographer or whatever? it is just good manners.

anyways, enough of my bitching (was not intended), i wish i could give you guys details about them but that would just ruin the surprise now wouldn’t. some of you know that i have something planned and others this will be the first time you hear this.

the friday night i received a very unexpected call from my ex ex boss ; it totally made my day. he said i should pop around the next week and come have a chat. the monday is exactly what i did. took the awesomely stunning drive to stellenbosch and spent a while there chatting to all the people there. the evening i had a long chat with Mel and what my plans where and all that. i emailed them in the morning to say i am considering. to make a long story short, i received an offer, went through and signed the acceptance letter and start tomorrow! going to be weird going back to work after not working for a month but i am stoked! bit worried though, april fools! i’m going to expect a few jokes tomorrow.

one of the sad parts about this month happened this week. i started practicing soccer at sunningdale back in january ; training and fitness been going awesomely. then 2 weeks ago we got told they only entered 2 teams into the league, 1st and 2nd teams. now the 1st team has already been picked but then they needed to choose a 2nd team from 26 players and it was going to be cut down to 15 players. there was 2 friendly games coming up and that was just supposed to be friendlies. we were supposed to have trials on the sunday but then they decided to have these friendly games as trials. the one problem i had with this was that they already chose a “1st” squad for the 2nd team and they played the one game while those while those that didn’t play was going to play the 2nd game. anyhoo, the problem with this was the “1st” selection was already with the fitter and better players. the game on saturday, when i played, was full of unfit, useless players who couldn’t kick a ball if their life depended on it and who also have not been down to practices. how am i supposed to play with these morons? and well of course i was supposed to play as a striker, but because of the unfit midfield, useless defenders,  i was tracking up and down between defense and striker. worst part was, the coach was only there for 10 minutes cause he had to go to some function. you call that proper trials? then on monday he sms’s to say “sorry, but you didn’t make the 2nd squad” yada yada. so yeah, i’m not training soccer no more which saddens me as i was looking forward to playing this season again. FFS. anyways, i got the number for a coach at bellville football club and will give him a ring tomorrow and find out the situation there. enough ranting about that now.

other activities i did these “holidays”:

• finished mass effect
• watched avatar 3d
• redesigned my blog, 3 times
• washed my car
• made awesome dinners
• did the dishes everyday
• spring cleaned the house
• went to #mandy braai
• setup vexigo
• started a little project (still trying to figure out if it is a good idea)
• played FIFA and DOTA

other than that i was bored as hell trying to get stuff to do as everyone was at work and could not visit people

i just want to thank everyone for being there and keeping me positive this last month. without my loving wife and you guys i think i would have gone insane!

you can check it out here and let me know what you think!

Chisani Creations

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Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! – You die…

i’m running postfix with mailscanner. every mail that passes through gets archived, except high scoring spam ofcourse. the problem that i had was that i set the archiving to save it as a raw queue file so i could not just copy it into the mail queue and sends it off to the relavent people who it was intended for.

in anycase, i had to somehow search through the archive mail for the user’s email address, convert it into a format that i can just copy into the user’s mailbox without clogging the mail queue. yes, this will still duplicate those emails that were not lost, but that’s the user’s issue, not mine.

this is how find, postcat, sed and grep saved my life.

find and copy the user’s email and then convert it. (note – some of the directories you will have to create)

first we change directory to the archives

pop:~# cd /var/spool/MailScanner/archive/

then we use find and grep to search for the user’s email address and pipe it to a file

pop:~# find ./ -name “*” -exec grep -H user@domain.com {} \; > /root/extract/users/user/find.txt

then we cat the file and make it a little bit more neater to use

pop:~# cat /root/extract/users/user/find.txt | cut -c15-40 > /root/extract/users/user/user.txt

then we write a while command to actually move the emails to another directory

pop:~# while read i; do cp $i /root/extract/users/user/sort/ ; done < /root/extract/users/user/user.txt

then we change to that directory

pop:~# cd /root/extract/users/user/sort/

then we pipe the files in the directory to a file

pop:~# ls > ../list.txt

now we convert the emails to a format that you can just copy into the user’s mailbox on the mailserver

pop:~# while read i; do `postcat -v $i | grep “regular_text:” | sed “s/regular_text: //g” > ../extracted/$i.mbox` ; done < ../list.txt

now we move the emails to the user’s mailbox

pop:~# mv ../extracted/ /home/vpopmail/domain/user/Maildir/new/

change the permission on the folder

pop:~# chown -R postfix:postfix /home/vpopmail/domain/user/Maildir/new/

I managed to find an arcticle on it thanks to Winston!

Add this line to /etc/postfix/main.cf:

smtpd_restriction_classes = domain_class
domain_class =
check_sender_access hash:/etc/postfix/access_domain_class
reject

This will cause Postfix to pass the sender address of all e-mail classified as fredclass through the access table access_domain_class, and if it doesn’t get accepted there, it gets rejected.

The file /etc/postfix/access_domain_class should contain this sort of thing:

# These are for various technical reasons.
double-bounce@mx.mydomain.com OK
root@mx.mydomain.com OK
MAILER-DAEMON@mx.mydomain.com OK

# These are the good guys.
user@domain.com OK
domain.com OK

E-mail from the above addresses and domains to bob@domain.com will be accepted. All other sender addresses will be rejected.

After creating the file /etc/postfix/access_domain_class, run the postmap command on it:

hostname/# cd /etc/postfix
hostname/# postmap hash:access_domain_class
hostname/# /etc/init.d/postfix reload

Up to this point, we have only defined the class domain_class and created
the database file /etc/postfix/access_domain_class which says who is
permitted to send e-mail to bob@domain.com. Now we must tell Postfix
that all e-mail addressed to bob@domain.com is of class domain_class.

The main.cf should already have something like this:

smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
hash:/etc/postfix/access_recipient

This causes Postfix to pass the recipient address of all incoming e-mail through the table access_recipient.  In our case, we will not simply accept or reject e-mail to bob@domain.com. Instead we will just indicate that it is of class domain_class.

In the file /etc/postfix/access_recipient, this should appear:

bob@domain.com domain_class

This means that all e-mail addressed to bob@domain.com is classified as domain_class, which implies that the test check_sender_access hash:/etc/postfix/access_domain_class will be applied to all such e-mails in accordance with the rule in /etc/postfix/main.cf.

To activate the changes to the file /etc/postfix/access_recipient, do this:

hostname/# cd /etc/postfix
hostname/# postmap hash:access_recipient
hostname/# /etc/init.d/postfix restart

• i have really neglected my poor camera lately and have not taken a picture in at least 3 months :O
• i need to document work or howtos. i have been very slack with actually posting them here. i have them all on paper but just not anywhere else.
• learn new things, e.g programming language like python  or php.
• take up an extramural activity again?

eerrr, supper is ready…i’ll be back!