Change Ownership in Plesk Domain
find /var/www/vhosts/*/httpdocs -user apache -group apache -exec chown user:psacln {} ;
Find Exim Spam
How to locate the top scripts on your server that send out email. You can then search the Exim mail log for those scripts to determine if it looks like spam, and even check your Apache access logs in order to find how a spammer might be using your scripts to send out spam. Login … Read more
User Exists – Changing user in plesk Web Hosting Access
Changing the Username under web hosting access – getting error “User account already exists.” login via ssh and run the following: Now, edit the new username.
Rkhunter Emails
Getting rkhunter failed emails in your email? Here is how to configure the email to send to a correct address. Edit /etc/sysconfig/rkhunter: Change the email to your email. Save and you are all set!
RCA
Root Cause Analysis Root cause analysis (RCA) is a method of problem solving that tries to identify the root causes of faults or problems. RCA practice tries to solve problems by attempting to identify and correct the root causes of events, as opposed to simply addressing their symptoms. Focusing correction on root causes has the … Read more
Hotmail and Outlook Black List
If you cannot send emails to Outlook or Hotmail or MSN, then your server’s IP address maybe blacklisted. Here are some tips to get removed from the MSN blacklist. Before jumping through the blacklist removal hoops, you may want to double-check that your emails are not simply going into the spam folder. This process will … Read more
Managing your Exim Server
Here are some useful things to know for managing an Exim 4 server. This assumes a prior working knowledge of SMTP, MTAs, and a UNIX shell prompt. Message-IDs and spool files The message-IDs that Exim uses to refer to messages in its queue are mixed-case alpha-numeric, and take the form of: XXXXXX-YYYYYY-ZZ. Most commands related … Read more
Is MySQL listening on remote port connection?
tcpdump -i eth0 ‘port 3306’
Plesk Firewall
psa-firewall To start the service through the command line: /etc/init.d/psa-firewall start To stop the service through the command line: /etc/init.d/psa-firewall stop To restart the service through the command line: /etc/init.d/psa-firewall restart Configuration files are accessible at: /usr/local/psa/var/modules/firewall/firewall-active.sh /usr/local/psa/var/modules/firewall/firewall-emergency.sh /usr/local/psa/var/modules/firewall/firewall-new.sh psa-firewall (IP forwarding) To start the service through the command line: /etc/init.d/psa-firewall-forward start To stop the … Read more
How to Install Telnet Client on CentOS 6.3
Telnet is most likely to be used by system administrators, program developers and anyone who has a need to use specific applications or data located at a particular host computer. It’s a network protocol used on the Internet or local area networks to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication facility using a virtual terminal connection. … Read more