How to increase Qmail sending limit

August 15th, 2010 No Comments   Posted in Centos, Dabian, Directadmin, Qmail, cpanel

First verify that these setting have not already been customized, as running the commands will overwrite any changes they have made. The following command will show you whether those files exist:

ls /var/qmail/control | egrep 'timeoutremote|timeoutsmtpd|concurrencyremote'

Run following command to update limits
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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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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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Installing screen on CentOS 5.x

February 18th, 2010 No Comments   Posted in Centos

Screen … It let you have multiple virtual windows in one physical terminal session, and very necessary to use if you are compiling remotely and your internet connection is not reliable.

1) Download latest RPM

http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=screen

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How to move MySQL to second drive

January 6th, 2010 No Comments   Posted in MySQL, Web hosting

If you ran out of space in your primary drive and wish to move MySQL to another drive then here is a simple procedure. Moving MySQL to another drive is very easy then it look.

1) Find out mount point of secondary drive.  If drive is not mounted yet then you can get help from article “How to mount drive in CentOS”

You can run below command to find mount point of secondary drive
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