November 2011Monthly Archives

Thunderbird Configuration Steps: 1. To set up a new e-mail account with Thunderbird, click Tools, Account Settings… (or Edit, Account Settings… if you are using Linux) 2. Click Add Account… 3. Select E-mail account as account type and click Next. 4. Enter the name to be displayed in your return… Continue Reading Configuring Thunderbird Email Client

You can upload the files through FTP using your Dreamweaver. —1. Open Dreamweaver CS5. Click on Site and choose New Site.2. For site name, enter a phrase that describes your site.3. Click Servers from the left hand side.4. Click the + button to add a server.5. Enter a server name6.… Continue Reading Uploading Files using Dreamweaver

LVM Formatting the new Disk Suppose the Disk is /dev/sdb, the second scsi disk,fdisk /dev/sdb create as many partitions as you need using command n Label them with command t as 8e for making it Linux LVM Write and Exit with the command w. Format the partitions you require using… Continue Reading LVM – How to configure LVM in the server

Postfix is free and powerful MTA. You can easily configure Postfix to block spam. You need to addfollowing directives to /etc/postfix/main.cf file: => disable_vrfy_command = yes : Disable the SMTP VRFY command. This stops some techniques used to harvest email addresses. => smtpd_delay_reject = yes It allows Postfix to log… Continue Reading Post fix Hardening – configure postfix with anti spam blacklisting.

In many VPS containers we can see that the disk space will be 90% free but still you will get a error message disk quota exceeded. This issue happens mostly in VPS servers. root@server [~]# df -hFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/sda3 263G 212G 38G 86% //dev/sda1 433M 31M… Continue Reading VPS inode value increase – How to increase Inode value in VPS

If you cannot login to Horde of any mail account of the domain with right password and username, then please check the following: =====1. Check the domain entry(domain.com)  in the file “/etc/userdomains”.2. If the domain entry(domain.com) is missing manually add the domain in this file.3. Now try logging in to… Continue Reading Horde mail issue

CDP returns error when creating backup of a server: Error: ——————————————–not enough data in sum file to read BlockSum.——————————————– Cause: This error generally means the file system or volume has been resized. Resolution: You will have to create a new Disk Safe. Steps to create new disk safe:—————————— 1. CDP… Continue Reading R1soft Error : “not enough data in sum file to read BlockSum”

You can set the audit policy as follows. =====1. “Start -> Run”.2. Type ‘gpedit.msc’ (without the quotes). 3. Navigate to “Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Local Policies -> Audit Policies -> Audit logon events”.4. Highlight and right-click and select properties.5. Configure as… Continue Reading RDP logs

Login to the server and get into the “public_html” folder of the server.Then execute the following commands : > vi wp-config.php See what is the database used by the wordpress and quit that “:q!”. > mysql> use “database”; ( database = name of the database )> show tables;> desc wp_users;>… Continue Reading Steps to reset the wordpress admin login in database

We can send mail via telnet using the following steps. 1. Telnet to hostname on port 25.   220 (then identifies itself – possibly with several lines of 220 + text) 2. HELO your_domain_name or whatever    250 (followed by human readable message) 3. MAIL FROM:you@hostname.com (ie, your email address)   … Continue Reading Sending mail via telnet