Sogoth Tech

Delete/Empty Qmail of all mail

admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:03:49 +0000

IF qmail gets full of mail a quick/simple way to delete it all is the following:


 Stop qmail
 go to cd /var/qmail/queue
 Type: find intd todo local remote mess info bounce -type f -print |xargs rm 
 Once done start qmail again

Count IP’s in Apache/httpd log file

admin — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:35:48 +0000

Just a quick method to count how many times an IP has accessed your webserver.

from the command line type:

awk '{!a[$1]++}END{for(i in a) if ( a[i] >10 ) print a[i],i }' filename

where filename is the name/location of the file, example: /var/log/httpd/access_log

Windows 7 – check system configuration and directx version

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:01:25 +0000

A quick way to pull up system information details (motherboard model, direct x version, cpy etc…) is to type in the run box the following:

dxdiag

Press enter and the details of the computer are available.

httpd – unable to access logs (plesk)

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:43:43 +0000

For some reason, with plesk, sometimes when trying to start httpd you will find the error message “unable to access logs” in the error_log.

A work around is to add the following line to the top of 2 files (/etc/init.d/httpd and /usr/sbin/apachectl).

ulimit -n 2048

Div overlay on Flash video/Youtube Iframe

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:30:53 +0000

When inserting a flash video into a website, by default it will show up over anything else on the site. To get around that you have to add the following:

For just a flash video, by itself into a page add the following to the value.

Such that you should see:

If the flash video is a youtube video, add the following to the iframe source link:

?wmode=transparent

OR if there is other parameters, use:

 &wmode=transparent

Example would be src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/da78h2c2r?wmode=transparent" or src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/da78h2c2r?rel=0&wmode=transparent"

note: like a GET method page