Linux, Hosting tips

change password expiry in zimbra mail account

Geo — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:11:34 +0000

To change the password expiry time for a zimbra mail account, please follow the steps below. [zimbra@geo ~]$ zmprov ma geo@geobaby.in zimbraPasswordMaxAge 36500 This modifies the value. To see if the new value is set, use the command: [zimbra@geo~]$ zmprov ga geo@geobaby.in zimbraPasswordMaxAge # name geo@geobaby.in zimbraPasswordMaxAge: 36500 This can also be done from admin [...]

Spamd / Spamassassin error : argument isn’t numeric in addition / unparseable IPv6 address

admin — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:33:04 +0000

I encountered the following error while restarting spamassassin. Starting spamd: Feb 21 20:29:26.275 [8814] warn: Argument “” isn’t numeric in addition (+) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/NetSet.pm line 122. Feb 21 20:29:26.276 [8814] warn: oops! unparseable IPv6 address for 127/8: 168355856 at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/NetSet.pm line 128. Feb 21 20:29:26.276 [8814] warn: oops! unparseable IPv6 address for 127/8: 168356228 at [...]

Glipper crashed with ValueError in load()

admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:06:55 +0000

I found out that klipper is not working well in Ubuntu 11.10 version. I installed glipper in my machine and after a reboot, met with this error. glipper crashed with ValueError in load(): invalid literal for int() with base 10: “\xcb#W\x84\xb0\x0e [...] \r” The workaround appears to be to just forget about the invalid history [...]

How To Find Large Files and Directories in Unix

admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:54:46 +0000

Sometimes we need to find larger files in a file system when theres is a disk space issue. This example finds all the files under /etc directory which are larger than 1000k: geobaby@ubuntu:~$ find /etc -size +1000k /etc/brltty/zh-tw.ctb If you look at the file, the size if above 1000k: geobaby@ubuntu:~$ ls -l /etc/brltty/zh-tw.ctb -rw-r–r– 1 [...]

Plesk IP Access Restriction Policy blocking panel access

Geo — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:36:07 +0000

While logging into plesk panel, you may have encountered the following error. “Access for administrator from address xx.xx.xx.xx is restricted in accordance with IP Access restriction policy currently applied.” It means that Plesk IP access policy was configured in such a way that Plesk panel cannot be accessed from the current IP address. To enable [...]

How to mount SFTP share in Linux machine

Geo — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:09:35 +0000

This could be implemented using both FUSE and SSHFS. Download both from http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html 1. Install FUSE package: fuse-x.tar.gz Extract and install #tar xvf fuse-x.tar.gz #cd fuse-x #./configure #make #make install After successful installation, install SSHFS package: sshfs-fuse-x.tar.gz Extract and install #tar xvf sshfs-fuse-x.tar.gz #cd sshfs-fuse-x #./configure #make #make install Now we can use sshfs to mount sftp [...]

how to remove an IP from the cphulkd blacklist

admin — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 17:36:18 +0000

cPHulk Brute Force Protection prevents malicious forces from trying to access your server’s services by guessing the login password for that service. By the following steps you can remove the IP from the cphulkd blacklist. Issue the commands from mysql prompt. mysql> use cphulkd; mysql> select * from brutes; +————–+————————————————————————-+———————+———————+ | IP | NOTES | [...]

Dump Mysql Tables

Geo — Sun, 15 May 2011 08:59:10 +0000

Often you have encountered problems while importing large databases via phpmyadmin. In that case, you can dump the mysql tables by using the following command. for T in `mysql -N -B -e ‘show tables from database_name’`; do echo $T; mysqldump database_name $T > database_name_$T.gz ; done Now you can restore the tables one by one [...]

PTY allocation request failed on channel 0

Geo — Sat, 14 May 2011 12:22:44 +0000

Recently I tried to ssh into a guest in vmware. I was able to authenticate in the server and I was not able to access the console. I was getting the following error. $ ssh x.x.x.x The authenticity of host ‘x.x.x.x (x.x.x.x)’ can’t be established. RSA key fingerprint is 1c:4d:1b:6g:d5:40:db:5b:46:7f:bb:17:b1:1b:41:80. Are you sure you want [...]

Install APC in cPanel server

Geo — Wed, 11 May 2011 16:01:53 +0000

You can install APC (Alternative PHP Cache) in your cpanel server using the following steps: # pecl install apc Then add the extension in the php.ini file. You can get the php.ini file by # php –ini Add the following line to it. extension=”apc.so” Then, retart apache service and you are good to go. I [...]