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exim: remove mails in queue from a particular sender.

Faheem — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:30:38 +0000

“spams”, its one of the major issue that a sys admin has to deal with throughout his job. First you need to find the user who is generating it. You can get it from the mail headers. Once you find the user, disable the script that was responsible for spams, but it may have already [...]

OpenVZ network down SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable

Faheem — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:31:34 +0000

Have you ever come across in a situation where the VPS is running, but network is unreachable? OpenVZ VPS may be up and running, but network service will be down resulting downtime for websites hosted in it. If you try to restart the network, you will get the below error: ==================================== [root@pers ~]# /etc/init.d/network restart Shutting down interface [...]

How to configure NAT with iptables on a VPS.

Faheem — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:56:28 +0000

NAT ( network-address-translation ) with iptables helps us in how to select the packets we want to mangle. We can easily configure NAT on a OpenVZ VPS by following the below steps. Lets first consider a VPS in which NAT is not enabled. Trying to POSTROUTE from VPS throws you errors. iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s [...]

How to disable gzip output on lightspeed server accounts

Faheem — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:48:40 +0000

You can use .htaccess to disable gzip output if your website is running under a lightspeed server. Open .htacess file and append following lines. php_flag zlib.output_compression Off RewriteEngine On RewriteRule . – [E=no-gzip:1] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [E=no-gzip:1] document.getElementById("post-705-blankimage").onload(); Tweet This! Add this to Google Bookmarks Share this on Technorati Share this on del.icio.us Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Linkedin Post this to [...]

Find Linux OS is 32 or 64bit.

Faheem — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:29:48 +0000

There are several situations where you need to confirm whether your Linux OS installed is 32bit or 64bit. People normally use uname -a to find it. But the following command will tell you exactly the machine architecture. getconf LONG_BIT getconf utility shall conform to the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax. eg: [root@localhost [...]

songbird! iTunes for Ubuntu

Faheem — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:34:16 +0000

Songbird is a opensource music player that utilizes the cross platform frameworks and will runs in Linux, Apple, Solaris & Windows. You can get it downloaded for free from here Linux System Requirements : glibc 2.3.4 or later XOrg 1.0 or later gtk+2.10 or later fontconfig (also known as xft) libstdc++6 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 or comparable At least 512 MB of physical RAM At [...]

How to Hide Text in Notepad !!

Nikhil — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:40:14 +0000

Well who knew we could hide files with notepad? Often you do all the coding for webpages in notepad and you gotta keep some of those hidden. What you do is look for a utility to hide your text. You simply don’t need it. There’s an easy hack to hide the notepad files. Let’s see [...]

How to transfer a cPanel account to DirectAdmin.

Faheem — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:45:43 +0000

The file structure and back-ups for both control panels are entirely different and its quite difficult to restore the files transfered from one to another control panel manually. There is a script available which can convert a cPanel back-up to the format that of a DirectAdmin. The convert process is quite simple. Download the conversion script [...]

System User Account in Windows XP !!

Nikhil — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:25:15 +0000

If you think Administrator has the largest privileges onto the computer, then you are wrong. There is a user who is named SYSTEM. SYSTEM has full control of the operating system and it’s kernel. If you open windows task manager (press ctrl+alt and delete) you will see that System User controls several processes. These processes [...]

Configure Windows XP to Automatically Login!

Nikhil — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:21:29 +0000

Click Start, Run and type CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2, and click Ok. Select the user account from the list (the account to which you want to automatically logon). Uncheck Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer option, and click Ok. Type the user account password and complete the process. For Windows XP Home, don’t try [...]