Strav's blog

Here's how to rebuild the indexes for Cyrus IMAP. It uses the program squatter for the indexing. This needs to be run as user 'cyrus' for i in strav sportchk derv; do /usr/sbin/squatter -r -v user.$i; done more »

For some time now I've had issues with PowerDVD for playback. The screen would be black except for the borders where you coould actually see the movie playing. I've done search after search and never found a resolution until now. Apparently there is a… more »

OK - here is one of those situations that make administering a system so frustrating. I've been moving (too slowly for my taste) my wireless network from a MAC filtered based system (way too easy to spoof) to a WPA2 encrypted network (currently the most… more »

The debian default setup for SNORT has the daily summary mail sent out from 'root'. While accurate, this is not ideal when it comes time to file (for some reason, it's easier for my brain to locate the 'snort' folder when I'm looking at mail from 'snort… more »