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PLesk 10.4 Mailing list service switched off on domain use this in shell/usr/local/psa/bin/maillist –update-service mydomain.com -status enabled

If your firewall rules allow access to only specific ports / services as it should be, after a Plesk upgrade clients may struggle to FTP into your server using Passive FTP. The problem is thatProFTP uses a random set of passive ports to allow incoming connections. This is what we have done for our clients […]

The solution? Go into /etc/udev/rules.d and delete the 70-persistent-net.rules file and reboot. problem Solved!  

Well that was fast and Christmas came and went like a storm once again, however this was a wonderful experience all over again mainly because of the gifts I got. Call me shallow and materialistic but I don’t usually feel excited like this during Christmas. Thanks to my wonderful wife for allowing me my material […]

Got my iPad at last and loving it. This amazing piece of engineering is going to revolutionize the way i work and document my work. I am also looking forward to developing applications for this machine. I have already downloaded and am using the following apps. Pocket cloud, holy bible, WordPress, VMware vsphere client, dictionary […]

If you cant uninstall Corel Draw X5 because the buttons to proceed do not display. They out this registry fix. Open regedit then navigate to: HKey_Current_User / Software / Microsoft / Windows/ CurrentVersion / Internet Settings / Zones You will see 5 zones, one with a funny symbol ¬ and 0 to 4 just delete […]

Log in as root (or you can use sudo) and open /etc/drweb/drweb32.ini: Look for: CronSummary = Yes And change it to: CronSummary = No Do a restart for the Dr. Web daemon by (add sudo in the beginning if not using root): /etc/init.d/drwebd restart I found this solution on this site. http://adeelejaz.com/blog/stop-dr-web-antivirus-update-emails/

Here is the solution /etc/postfix/master.conf Scroll down to “submission inet n – n – -……” line. Change “smtpd_tls_security_level=encrypt” to “smtpd_tls_security_level=may” I got this from this post. http://forum.parallels.com/pda/index.php/t-105983.html

Upgraded a clients VPS to plesk 10.3 and all the domain pages showed default. Plesk even said the domains are suspended. And activating / Decativating did not work. I ran this command and restartd HTTPD server and all was fine. # /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/httpdmng –reconfigure-all

Installed FreeNAS on my ESXi server for doing backups to External USB HDD.. Problem is that during VMDK transports.. IRQ STORM was detectd and throttling occured. Problem was due to the Flexible network adaptor. Replaced it with E1000 and reconfigured FREENAS with lovely performance increases.