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Easily retrievable configuration file backup with Gmail
Shortly after I accepted an invitation for a Gmail account, (thank you Joost), I found it very easy to send configuration files to my account.
A simple command from the command line to mail me a backup of my pf.conf file: Code:
# mail -s 'Parmenides: pf.conf' g.w.bush@gmail.com </etc/pf.conf There are two requirements:
Real life example Yesterday the following BAK mail saved me a lot of trouble when I installed a new OpenBSD snapshot, and wanted to preserve my original disklabel layout: Code:
Charlie Root to me show details Jan 17 Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0a 61.4M 32.0M 26.3M 55% / /dev/wd0m 6.5G 2.8G 3.4G 44% /backup /dev/wd0e 19.7G 2.8G 15.9G 15% /home/j65nko /dev/wd0d 502M 2.0K 477M 0% /tmp /dev/wd0k 3.9G 418M 3.3G 11% /usr /dev/wd0l 3.9G 210K 3.7G 0% /usr/local /dev/wd0f 1005M 3.0M 952M 0% /var /dev/wd0h 502M 122K 477M 0% /var/log /dev/wd0g 502M 4.0K 477M 0% /var/tmp
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You don't need to be a genius to debug a pf.conf firewall ruleset, you just need the guts to run tcpdump Last edited by J65nko; 9th February 2010 at 04:19 AM. Reason: Changed pietjepuk to g.w.bush as the example gmail account |
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