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Archive for April, 2008

Secure & Optimize VPS/VDS

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Here is the method by which you can  secure & optimize VPS/VDS
Checking for formmail:
Form mail is used generally by hackers to send out spam email, by relay and injection methods. If you are using matts script or a version of it, you may be in threat.
Command to find pesky form mails:
find / -name “[Ff]orm[mM]ai*”
CGIemail is […]

Upgrade CentOS 3.3 to 3.4 using yum

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

centOS freely available linux distribution  based on Red Hat Enterprices Linux which is 100% binary compatible with the upstream product and within its mainline and update. It is very stable and great Operating system to work with.
Check here the process to upgrade from CentOS 3.3 to 3.4 using yum;  
First step, download
rpm -ivh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.4/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/centos-yumcache-3.1-0.20050105.3.noarch.rpm
rpm […]

How to FIX cPanel/WHM RNDC Error

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

 You may face cPanel/WHM RNDC error, you need to fix the NDC error before your name servers work, the RNDC error is normally common now however you can easily fix it with couple of steps as metntioned below;
Fixing RNDC error in WHM/cPanel (ndc: connection failed: connection refused)
It is somewhat a common occurrence in cPanel to […]