- Monitor your Linux System with saidar

saidar is a curses-based application to display system statistics.

Statistics include CPU, processes, load, memory,swap, network I/O and disks I/O along with their free space.saidar utilizes libstatgrab library. libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to statistics about the system on which it’s run. It’s written in C and presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access key system statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU usage, memory utilization, disk usage, process counts, network traffic, disk I/O, and more.

Installation:
OpenSuSe user can install saidar using "1-click" installer - here
Ubuntu user can install it using following command: sudo apt-get install saidar

Using saidar: saidar [-d delay] [-v] [-h]
If you want to use this application you can just type the following command: saidar

Now you should see the following screen which includes system statistics include CPU, processes, load, memory, swap,network I/O and disks I/O along with their free space.

source:http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2010/04/13578167754905.html

- Accept or Reject mail from selected Domains / Users using Sendmail

The access database file can be created to accept or reject mail from selected domains. For example, you may choose to reject all mail originating from known spammers, or to accept to relay all mail from your local network.

The /etc/mail/access file has two columns. The first lists IP addresses and domains from which the mail is coming or going. The second lists the type of action to be taken when mail from these sources or destinations is received. Keywords include RELAY, REJECT, OK (not ACCEPT), and DISCARD

spammer@aol.com         REJECT
cyberspammer.com         REJECT
192.168.212                     REJECT
spammer@aol.com         REJECT

cyberspammer2.com           550 We don't accept mail from spammers
okay.cyberspammer.com    OK
sendmail.org                         OK
128.32                                   RELAY

# You can also use the access database to block sender addresses based on
# the user name portion of the address. For example:

FREE.STEALTH.MAILER@    550 Spam not accepted

# by default we allow relaying from localhost

localhost.localdomain      RELAY
localhost                            RELAY
127.0.0.1                           RELAY
192.168.1                          RELAY

You'll then have to convert this text file into a sendmail readable database file named /etc/mail/access.db. Here are the commands you need:

makemap hash /etc/mail/access.db < /etc/mail/access

source:http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2010/04/135781677510056.html