Changing Mysql Root Password
The first thing one should do after starting MySQL is to set the root pass which by default is set to null. Leaving MySQL as Null is not such a good idea So here is how it can easily be done from a...
View ArticleUsing sendmail as a smart relay
If your company is behind a strict firewall or you want to forward all mail through a trusted SMTP server (your ISP’s for example), you’ll want to setup sendmail to perform “smart relaying”. This...
View ArticleCherokee vs Apache Benchmarks
A thanks to Adam Thurlow from SheepDog Inc. for providing this report for us! Cherokee Webserver Report This report documents all of our findings testing the Cherokee Webserver for use with Django in...
View ArticleSetting up SNORT with Base (CentOS 5.6)
Setting up Snort on your Server. (I used CentOS 5.6) Assuming that you just installed a basic install of CentOS Server we will have to add a few things to the server so that Snort will run correctly....
View Articlebandwidthd with Postgres giving FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user...
If you’re trying to setup bandwidthd with PostgreSQL, you may run into the following error: bandwidthd: Connection to database ‘user = USER dbname = bandwidthd host = localhost password = PASSWORD’...
View ArticleLimiting Apache (httpd) memory usage per process
Recently, we have had some issues where one script or website would cause an Apache child process to consume all of a server’s RAM. This eventually led to memory swapping and a kernel panic if left for...
View ArticleForget your ‘-y’ or ‘| yes’?
This was my way of making up for it.. a little unorthodox, but it sure did the trick!
View Articleopen_basedir restriction in effect Error
If you are running Plesk and you want to run something from a directory outside of the httpdocs directory you can do this simply by adding a vhost.conf file. You will need to create the vhost.conf...
View ArticleChanging the time in a Virtuozzo VPS
For people pulling their hair out trying to get their Virtuozzo VPS to display the time they want and can’t figure out why the usual commands are not working, it is because the time is managed by...
View ArticlePlesk with PostFix error (User unknown in virtual alias table)
Recently we ran into an issue where when trying to send an email on a Plesk box with Postfix as the MTA. We were having an issue sending to the main domain and their email was not hosted on the box but...
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