I tried today to connect to an old Samba server (ver. 2.2!!!) running on a developement Solaris box with a new account. I thought it would be a 2-minute job, however it made me through more than 2 hours into the waste bin as the connection failed with the very useful error message: “System error […]
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Fighting with Exim Queues
Although I am fond of Sendmail, I have to admin that there are lot of other respectable MTAs that do a great job, are very very powerful and are far easier to install, configure and administer. Due to my numerous CPanel servers I usually have to work with Exim MTA and perform various operations on […]
Read More →Exim Mass Mail Delete from Queue
A very useful script which deletes all offending mails matching specific criteria in cases of spam attacks or exploited servers.
Read More →Addon Domain Error: Domain Owned from other user
It happens sometimes when you try to create a new addon domain (howto.gr in our example) to receive the error message: ” Error from domain wrapper: howto.gr is owned from another user “ This can happens due to various reasons and it can be very tricky to resolve. The solution is to completely remove every […]
Read More →CPanel transfer account fails with “Timeout during ssh session”
When you try to move an account from one CPanel server to another through SSH you may get an error like: “Packaging the account… … Timeout during ssh session … Retrying….” besides the fact that SSH seems to be working on the remote host. In such cases you should login through SSH on the target […]
Read More →Upgrade ClamAV on CPanel Servers
It is a common question for CPanel administrators why Cpanel does not keep ClamAV up to date. I don’t have the answer but i can demonstrate a simple workaround to upgrade clamav yourself with as little work as possible. You can identify if you use an old ClamAV version if you execute the command “freshclam” […]
Read More →Linux on VMware Time Sync
It is a common problem on virtual machines to loose time synchronization with the hardware clock. This can lead to serious problems regarding services operations as well as log consolidation. VMware’ s knowledge base has lot of information regarding the issue. We choose to implement NTP time synchronization on our Datacenter, thus the only option […]
Read More →Roundcube WebMail on CPanel Servers
Roundcube webmail is a very promising Open Source webmail client. With CPanel 11 installing RoundCube is quite easy and with no file editing of CPanel files. To install roundcube you should first download RoundCube Webmail from http://roundcube.net/ . Unzip the software somewhere and upload all files and folders (maybe with WinSCP) to your server in […]
Read More →Exim Ignore MX Record
There are some cases where you want to ignore the configured MX record in order to deliver e-mails for a domain and instead deliver them to a preconfigured server. A very common situation where you want to do this is when you provide advanced anti virus and anti spam solutions to your clients. In those […]
Read More →Samba PDC and Kolab
Our project is to replace in our corporate all MS Windows servers. The new environment should be compatible with simple users habits and the transition from Microsoft servers to Linux servers must be completely transparent to the end user. The first step towards this is to provide a Windows Domain functionality with Samba Server v3. […]
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