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A few days ago, one of my web application that use as backend oracle (i'm running oracle-xe-10.2.0.1-0.1) hangs and refuse to work. I was very surprised of this, because i was more than sure that i did not made any modifications on my web server. First thing i look into it was the apache web server.I try to restart the web server, check the php lib file to see if it is corrupted or missing, check the ORA_HOME enviroment, check it the DMZ server where the oracle 10XE is running respond to my pings and telnets in 1521.Every thing was working as espected, except my web application.I was very frustrated and disappointed. After a while, it hit me, why not check the sqlplus client from ORA_HOME path. Tannnnaaaa...this was the problem.The sqlclient refuse to work or connect to the oracle server. This is the output of the strace that i did on sqlplus \0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 256) = 256 13100 lseek(6, 512, SEEK_SET) = 512 13100 read(6, "\337y \0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\...

In this post i'll describe to you, how to scan emails using postfix and BitDefender-scanner . This will help you scan and clean all incoming email traffic to your server for viruses. Nevertheless, this sollution is not a fast one(and it will scan only the incoming mail), because for each and every mail, the procmail filter will send the eml to the bitdefender-scanner. In order to increase speed, i recommand to use BitDefender for mail servers , and integrate it with postfix or other favorite mta. Bitdefender-scanner it is very easy to install.The package will cam as, rpm, deb and tar. Just type in your console sh -x BitDefender-scanner.rpm/deb/tar.run and follow the install procedure. After the install, I recommend to update your scanner.To do this, go to /opt/BitDefender-scanner/ bin, and type . /bdscan --update If you LDA in postfix is procmail, then you don't need to make any modifications to your main.cf file.If not just add this line in / etc/postfix/main....

- OMD What is OMD "Online medical data base it is an online managemt tool for medical purposes..." Click here for wiki page. For a quick demo press here Enjoy :)

This is related with OMD project. This simple application contain the commercial drug list from romanian market. It contain a search module that can perform search with a specified criteria(name, country etc). Here it is