Stuff…

It was taking a long time to login to Horde webmail using a specific email account.  It turned out that the filters setup in horde were causing a delay and the imapd process to use a lot of CPU.  Disabling the filter rules made the login much faster and no CPU load.
URL:

http://kb.parallels.com/en/5438
Horde Webmail

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Racadm can be used to reset a Dell DRAC card when you cannot get a virtual console.  The RACADM command can be found on the system management CD which came with the Dell systems.
Sometimes for some unknown reason connection to the console via the java interface does not work.  The DRAC needs resetting with [...]

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 Wrote a quick little script to get all the mysql database names managed by Plesk for linux and then manually back them up.
#!/bin/bash
MYSQLPASS=`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow`
# Day of week
DAY=`date +%u`
DIR=”/mnt/backup/mysql”
# Backup mysql database
mysqldump -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` -c -e –add-drop-table –add-locks –allow-keywords mysql > $DIR/mysql.$DAY.sql
for DB in `mysql -Ns -uadmin -p$MYSQLPASS -Dpsa -e “select name from data_bases”`;
do mysqldump [...]

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 Upgraded Windows Plesk 8.2 to 8.6 due to the statistics.exe processusing 100% CPU for > 12 hours causing the machine it become unresponsive.  The upgrade to Plesk 8.6 went surprisingly well and didn’t fatally break the system.
Two things did happen though:
1/ It reset permissions on custom installed components such as jMail etc.
2/ Statistics.exe appeared to [...]

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When you upgrade Plesk expect bugs… this one was slightly annoying but not critical.  Going to the modules area and clicking on the Acronis management module it would display a black page.  Plesk developers released a fix a few weeks after discovery:
URL:

http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=85995&highlight=Acronis+Module
ftp://download1.parallels.net/Plesk/Autoupdate/Unix/9.0/148887/plesk9_patch_148887.tar.gz

Please try the solution:
1. download plesk9_patch_148887.tar.gz with updated modules
2. extract archive
cd $psa_root
tar -zxvf $psa_root/plesk9_patch_148887.tar.gz

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