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Screen  is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes
(typically interactive shells). [1]
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Everything  you type is sent to the program running in the current window.  The only exception to this
is the one keystroke that is used to initiate a command to the window manager.  By default, each  com-
mand  begins  with  a [...]

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OS: Linux
CP: Plesk 9.x
Where does Plesk 9.x store backups generated from the scheduled backups initiated via the control panel.
/var/lib/psa/dump stores a lot of backups including the psa mysql database backup (incase you, or Plesk, corrupt the psa database).  Client backups can be found in: /var/lib/psa/dump/clients
The backups of the vhosts/www data appears to be in tar.gz [...]

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Needed to restore some data from an old MySQL dump for a Magento store, but, did not want to restore the whole SQL database which would over write recent orders etc.
The plan was to create a subdomain and do a fresh install of Magento into the subdomain and then restore the database and hope to [...]

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Looking to move back to qmail from postfix due to all the issues introduced by Plesk when using Postfix.  Unfortunately Parallels have produced an extremely flaky implementation of the Postfix MTA in their Plesk 9.x control panel software and have not been able to fix the bugs in months.
The following article describes the process of [...]

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OS: CentOS 5.4
CP: Plesk 9.3
MTA: Postfix
Plesk appears to have a bug in it where if you disable a domain mail function Plesk leaves various entries in the postfix mailertables.  For example, domain test.com has mail disabled on it, but, Plesk leaves entries in the following mail tables used by postfix:
/var/spool/postfix/plesk/alias.db:
_plesk_bounce_test.com
/var/spool/postfix/plesk/virtual.db:
@test.com
root@test.com
postmaster@test.com
mailer-daemon@test.com
anonymous@test.com
drweb@test.com
This is a big problem when [...]

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