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Plesk DrWeb notifications on Linux

December 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

To disable DrWeb notifications on Plesk 9.2.3 for Linux the following needed changing in the /etc/drweb/drweb_handler.conf file:
SenderNotify = yes
AdminNotify = yes
RcptsNotify = yes
These can be changed to no in a number of different sections… ie. ErrorNotifications, VirusNotifications etc
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Disable Dr. Web Notifications in Plesk (older versions of Plesk)

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Tags: Control Panels · Linux · Operating System

Plesk greylisting handlers_stderr: qmail-inject: fatal: qq trouble in home directory

December 21st, 2009 · No Comments

It appears that when grey listing was enabled on Plesk 9.2.3 for Fedora 8 there maybe an error in the maillog like:
handlers_stderr: qmail-inject: fatal: qq trouble in home directory
Command “/usr/local/psa/bin/grey_listing -i” showed that grey listing was running.  After disabling grey listing with “/usr/local/psa/bin/grey_listing -u -status off” this error went away.
Perhaps a grey listing bug in [...]

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Tags: Control Panels · Linux · Operating System · Protocols · SMTP

Ubuntu 8.04 on Dell R410 network issue

December 9th, 2009 · No Comments

Installing Ubuntu on a new Dell R410 works, however, the network interfaces are not detected.  It appears the network interfaces included in the Dell R410 are Broadcom BCM5716’s.
Apparently the bnx2 driver in included in Ubuntu 8.10 and later, however, no backported driver has been provided as yet.
A process for getting the interfaces working would be [...]

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Tags: Linux · Networking · Operating System · Uncategorized

mdadm and non-active devices

December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Wasn’t sure what the (S) meant:
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10]
md2 : active raid1 sdb3[1] sda3[0]
240099392 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md1 : inactive sda2[0](S)
3903680 blocks
md0 : active raid1 sda1[0]
192640 blocks [2/1] [U_]
Turns out, any of the md devices that had an S next to it were not running:
# mdadm –query /dev/md1
/dev/md1: [...]

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Tags: Linux · Operating System

cacti rrd files not updating

December 1st, 2009 · No Comments

The cacti RRA files that were being update by the crontab:
/usr/bin/php /usr/share/cacti/poller.php
stopped working for some reason.  No permissions had changed, but, the disk did fill up at one start.  It was thought that perhaps some of the RRA files had been corrupted, however, running rrdtool info and fetch on the files they worked fine.
It turned [...]

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Tags: Linux · Networking · Operating System