Plesk Qmail error – 451 qq internal bug (#4.3.0)

August 27th, 2010 2 Comments   Posted in Centos, Plesk, Qmail, System Administration

If you are getting error while sending email from your plesk server using outlook

Send test e-mail message: Your outgoing (SMTP) e-mail server has
reported an internal error. If you continue to receive this message, contact
your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).  The server
responded: 451 qq internal bug (#4.3.0)

To eliminate this problem, stop Qmail process and replace qmail-queue, qmail-local and qmail-remote with the qmail-queue.moved, qmail-local.moved and qmail-remote.moved accordingly:

# cd /var/qmail/bin
# cp -p qmail-local.moved qmail-local
# cp -p qmail-remote.moved qmail-remote
# cp -p qmail-queue.moved qmail-queue

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How to secure SSH in your server ?

1) Set a very strong password, keep it in your mind but dont write in somewhere.

2) Disable direct root login

emacs /etc/ssh/sshd_config

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How to open and close port in iptables ?

Few of very simple steps

1) Login using root

2) Enter following command to open port in iptables

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT

3) Enter following command to close port in iptables
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Configuring range of ips in Linux,Centos,fedora core, red hat

Thats pretty simple

Just configure on ips in

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

Then Make a new file named ifcfg-eth0-range0

emacs /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0-range0

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How to install Active Directory on Windows Server 2008

April 21st, 2010 No Comments   Posted in System Administration, Windows

Unlike previous version of windows, there is an additional step requires to install before we go to dcpromo to promote the server to domain controller and install active directory. This additonal step is to enable active directory domain services role on server, and after that we proceed to dcpromo

Method to add role is very simple

1) Just open Server Manage, by right clicking on “My computer” and then click on “Manager”
2) click on “roles” from left tree, then click on “Add role” at right side.

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why sites suddenly stopped working in dedicated/virtual private servers

VeriSign has made some changes recently which are applied since March 1, 2010.  You can read detail by clicking here

How do I fix it?

You need to log in to your control panel and modify the affected domain name’s zone file, using the table below as an example. More »

Configuring/Adding multiple ips in windows using netsh command

March 15th, 2010 No Comments   Posted in System Administration, Windows

If you ever wanted to add 200 ip addresses to Windows Server with one command instead of manually configure it on the interface? Netsh will help you to save time.

You can use this quick batch command in cmd:

FOR /L %I IN (2,1,254) DO netsh interface ip add address "Local Area Connection" 10.0.0.%I 255.255.255.0

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ip_conntrack table is full and dropping packets

Last day one of our server had an attack, attack was not so big but still server was unresponsive because of this. After some research I found that this is because of iptables which are being load while handling so much traffic. Then I found a good article on the same issue which you can read by clicking below linking here.

Easy way to optimize apache,php & MySQL

There are 2 important scripts to optimize apache,php and mysql very easily. They are

MySQLTuner (Perl) and MySQL Performance Tuning Primer (shell)

They can help diagnose MySQL database performance issues, and provide recommendations on how to solve them.
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Domain has exceeded the max emails per hour (200) allowed. Message discarded.

December 20th, 2009 No Comments   Posted in System Administration, Web hosting, cpanel

Some times you get error from cpanel

Domain example.com has exceeded the max emails per hour (200) allowed. Message discarded.

Simple solution for it is

echo domain.com=10000 >> /var/cpanel/maxemails

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