disable HFS+ journaling on Leopard to use disks read/write with linux

this article saved my life…
http://castyour.net/node/40

the key was this command:
yourcomputer:~ youruser$ sudo diskutil disableJournal force /dev/disk1s10

thanks to Las Ruinas De Gringobamba

samba force “user must change password at next logon”

After searching samba mailing lists and web for ways to do this it seems that

pdbedit --pwd-must-change-time=(0 or current time) 'username'

should do the trick (the man file for pdbedit or the samba manual does not mention how to do this).

But finally

net sam set pwdmustchangenow yes

worked for me!

thanks to Chris Smith

shell program for sending SMTP mail from a bash command line

SendEmail

SendEmail is a lightweight, command line SMTP email client. If you have the need to send email from a command line, this free program is perfect: simple to use and feature rich. It was designed to be used in bash scripts, batch files, Perl programs and web sites, but is quite adaptable and will likely meet your requirements. SendEmail is written in Perl and is unique in that it requires NO MODULES. It has an intuitive and flexible set of command-line options, making it very easy to learn and use.
[Supported Platforms: Linux, BSD, OS X, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, & Windows XP]

You find everything about it at

http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/

Thanks Brandon for great work!

flexbackup

A flexible backup tool.

flexbackup is for you if you have a single or small number of machines, amanda or bacula are “too much”, and tarring things up by hand isn’t nearly enough…

i found it very useful, easy and powerful

this is my /etc/flexbackup.conf
I do backups on HP DAT72 USB internal as follows:
- from monday to thursday of set “backup”
- on friday of set “homes”

recently used also for backup to hd-usb strategy