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30Apr/100

CHMOD in Linux

Some Ecommerce applications such as PrestaShop have an annoying habit of locking image files upon upload. Depending on your FTP servers setup, this can result in the files being inaccessible and preventing you from downloading the files via FTP, or overwriting the files directly. In a typical Plesk environment, the files have deletion enabled which allows you to delete the file and then re-upload
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1Mar/101

Dealing with spam attacks in Plesk and Qmail

If theres loads of spam in the queue, theres a very good chance one of your users has been compromised, or there is a malicious script operating on your hosting server. You need to find one of the messages in the queue and note the email address. cat /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog | grep 'email@email' where email is an offending address. Note the message ID number, and locate it with locate 12345
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28Feb/100

AWStats and Plesk. Viewing other months.

The AWStats panel that is integrated into the CMS has become a bit of a bone of contention. It was never meant to be a part of the CMS, but since I embedded it in there its become a bit of a monkey on my back. In most cases the integrated AWStats in the CMS shows the current month, but fails to show previous months. This is actually a default Plesk setting and AWStats does not necessarily execute
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26Feb/1010

Qmail log analysis tool

Relay attempts are recorded so that patterns can be analysed and firewall rules generated. Ive been slaving over this for two days now and Ive finally got it to a level I think could be useful to me. Our servers process tens of thousands of emails per day - not all of them spam, and grep-ing the maillog always causes me headaches, so a nice little visual PHP app should keep me in the manner to whi