Finding out the Dell Service Tag from Linux
Scenario: You need to place a service call to Dell in order to have them replace a failed drive in your Dell PowerEdge server running CentOS Linux. Your server is...
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Disable recursion in Bind
Running publically facing DNS servers is often necessary in order to allow Internet resolution of your domains and services but allowing 3rd party look ups of other people’s domains and...
Plesk Webstats (AWStats)
To force re-create web statistics for all domains on a Plesk Linux server use: /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/statistics –calculate-all Parallels knowledge base article 393 for more information.
Plesk Grey Listing Problems
I recently debugged a mail delivery issue between a Plesk 9.2 server running Qmail and 3rd party ‘sending’ servers. In short, Qmail was not accepting email and was issuing a...
Postfix Queue Maintenance
From time to time its necessary to carry out maintenance on Postfix’s queues, especially after a massive influx of spam or mail queue issues. This command will delete one specific...