Archive for Linux Admin
by: WanderingTechy
February 2, 2012
If/When you get a DNS problem or other network issue that causes the queue to fail it will fill up at a fair speed. Use the following to tell qmail to make another attempt at sending. /var/qmail/bin/qmail-tcpok Or you can do this. Run ps axl and find the process id (PID) for qmail-send Run kill [...]
by: WanderingTechy
February 1, 2012
DRWeb has been causing lots of problems on 3 servers. Here is how to remove it completely If you then get any error messages in your log files do this.
by: WanderingTechy
August 10, 2011
After a few days with KDE I decided I didn’t like how buggy it was. I have moved back to XFCE after trying a few others. For me I wanted just enough features so I can get my work done without any pauses or glitches that will distract me. I am not 100% happy with [...]
by: WanderingTechy
July 30, 2011
I used to use a hosts file supplied by a website that has now ceased operations. http://www.everythingisnt.com/hosts.html however I found this new one from a slashdot post. http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
by: WanderingTechy
July 27, 2011
I have played with Ubuntu in the past and found it bloated and buggy. I recently tried using Centos as a desktop OS as that is what I develop for and use mostly. Unfortunately Centos whilst being a brilliant server OS is no good as a desktop unfortunately. I have decided to give arch linux [...]
by: WanderingTechy
July 19, 2011
Very simple to use repository at Atomic Corp. Thanks guys http://www6.atomicorp.com/channels/atomic/
by: WanderingTechy
July 18, 2011
I am setting up a developement laptop that will connect to the internet using a Three 3G modem. It is a ZTE MF112. This didn’t automatically work in Centos 5.6 and I had no other way of getting it connected to the net so this is what I eventually discovered. Update the Kernel. Install Sakis3g [...]
by: WanderingTechy
July 15, 2011
For example I recently needed to change the paths on 100′s of files across multiple sites on a plesk server where the imported sites had come from an ancient ensim install. It did over 1,000 replaces. I have replaced the domain name with example.com to protect the identity of the site in question. The php [...]
by: WanderingTechy
June 10, 2011
If you want to change the outgoing IP address of your server use the following command. Execute this command The output should look something like this. If no ‘src’ listed in ‘ip’ output for default route, then main IP on the interface is used for an outgoing connections. You can change it using: Now when [...]
by: WanderingTechy
June 10, 2011
I have a client who wants to turn off open_basedir as he using cross domain includes. I have recommend against doing this for security reason but he has insisted. I was initially looking at modifying the ./conf/vhost.conf file for each domain and adding the open_basedir config but found a quicker way. add a file called. [...]