by admin | Sep 15, 2014 | Mail service, Servers
We are observing a brute-force attack towards SMTP connections from different IP addresses with the same machine name – “ylmf-pc“ It could be many malware affected machines involved or an extended IP spoofing. If you have CSF configured properly, the IPs would be...
by admin | Sep 6, 2014 | cPanel/WHM
It would be a difficult job to upgrade cPanel from versions 11.30.x to the latest ones trending now. Under usual circumstances, upgrading cPanel can be as easy as running the script : # scripts/upcp However, if your box is running an old version of cPanel, you might...
by admin | Aug 31, 2014 | MySQL
When trying to restart the MySQL service, do you happen to find the following error in the logs ? /usr/sbin/mysqld: Can’t create/write to file ‘/tmp/xx’ (Errcode: 122) date InnoDB: Error: unable to create temporary file; errno: 122 date [ERROR]...
by admin | Aug 31, 2014 | Mail service, Plesk
This post will help you to track down spamming from a Plesk server, if its employed using PHP scripts in any of the domains. – Use this one to view the folders which have mail PHP scripts enabled and running. # vi /var/qmail/bin/sendmail-wrapper #!/bin/sh (echo...
by admin | Aug 31, 2014 | Mail service, Plesk
Finding the source of spamming in a server provisioned with Plesk is a tough job. Some of the useful commands which might help you are given down. Find the number of mails hung in the queue : # /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat To get an idea about the the message headers of...
