Chapter 10. System Administration

Introduction

Recipe 10.1.  Generating Random Passwords

Recipe 10.2.  Generating Easily Remembered Somewhat-Random Passwords

Recipe 10.3.  Authenticating Users by Means of a POP Server

Recipe 10.4.  Calculating Apache Hits per IP Address

Recipe 10.5.  Calculating the Rate of Client Cache Hits on Apache

Recipe 10.6.  Spawning an Editor from a Script

Recipe 10.7.  Backing Up Files

Recipe 10.8.  Selectively Copying a Mailbox File

Recipe 10.9.  Building a Whitelist of Email Addresses From a Mailbox

Recipe 10.10.  Blocking Duplicate Mails

Recipe 10.11.  Checking Your Windows Sound System

Recipe 10.12.  Registering or Unregistering a DLL on Windows

Recipe 10.13.  Checking and Modifying the Set of Tasks Windows Automatically Runs at Login

Recipe 10.14.  Creating a Share on Windows

Recipe 10.15.  Connecting to an Already Running Instance of Internet Explorer

Recipe 10.16.  Reading Microsoft Outlook Contacts

Recipe 10.17.  Gathering Detailed System Informationon Mac OS X