Tracking down spamming in Plesk – 1

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...

Clear Qmail queue – Plesk

In order to clear the Qmail queue, initiate the following commands from shell : # service qmail stop # find /var/qmail/queue/mess -type f -exec rm {} \; # find /var/qmail/queue/info -type f -exec rm {} \; # find /var/qmail/queue/local -type f -exec rm {} \; # find...

Named not starting in Plesk !

When trying to restart named, you get an error stating that some parameter is not given correctly in a zone file. It would be a reverse PTR zone file with name something like this: x.x.x.in-addr.arpa. Open the zone file using vim , like : # vim...

Plesk upgrade – CentOS 5, 64 bit !

– Plesk can be upgraded upto version 9.5.4 either from Plesk control Panel or by using the following script : # /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/autoinstaller – Till this version, its pretty straightforward. – But when trying to upgrade to a version higher with a PHP version...