Preventing Spam with Antivirus.exim

Dedicated servers with cPanel installed have an antivirus called as antivirus.exim. Antivirus Exim has a main central filter for the exim mail server which enables you to setup all kinds of wonderful filters to help stop spams from coming in and going out of your server.
Here is the config /etc/antivirus.exim config file. This will help [...]

IP Allocation report 2009

Throughout the world IP addresses are allocated to more than 238 countries in the world and this process is called IP address allocation. Staring from the first allocation process to the latest allocation in 2009 one point that attracts everyone is the uneven distribution of IP address. There are numerous reasons starting from money to [...]

Cpanel Error

I just found an error
http://www.cpanel.net/plugins/devel/install.html
Uninstalling Plugins
If a Plugin is no longer needed, it can be uninstalled with the following command:
* /usr/local/cpanel/bin/unregister_plugin
There is no such file
/usr/local/cpanel/bin/unregister_plugin
It should be
/usr/local/cpanel/bin/unregister_cpanelplugin
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Steps to install powerDNS on VPS

What is powerDNS?
PowerDNS: It stands for Power Domain Nameservers. Power DNS is written in C++ language and it is licensed under the GPL. This Power DNS is setup on Linux as well as Windows OS. PowerDNS updates your DNS information (if your DNS is hosted at TextDrive) according to your domains set up in webmin. [...]

Rootkit Hunter on Linux VPS

What is RKHunter?
RKHunter stands for Rootkit Hunter. It’s one of the most powerful application that you can install easily on your Cpanel VPS.
As rootkits are installed into system files they cannot be removed easily however, RKHunter will still notify you of any rootkits that may exist in your system so that you can take the [...]

Plesk 9.0.0 Requirements

To install Plesk 9.0.0 on your Linux VPS you will require any one of the OS given below:-
* Dropped! RedHat Enterprise Linux 3
* RedHat Enterprise Linux 4
* RedHat Enterprise Linux 5
* CentOS 4
* CentOS 5
[...]

How to Access Webmails

In this article I will explain you how to login directly into Squirrelmail/Horde of any account by using “webmail.yourdomain.com”
Before starting with webmail you will have to create a subdomain that should be redirected to your preferred Webmail client that is Squirrelmail/Horde. By following the below steps you can easily create subdomain through Cpanel:-
1) First login [...]

Start, Stop and restart Tomcat on VPS

Installing Tomcat on VPS will not enable tomcat service through which users can stop and restart tomcat using command service tomcat restart. To enable this service you will have to create a new file in /etc/init.d as tomcat and also you have to copy the following contents into it which are given below:-
#vi /etc/init.d/tomcat
#!/bin/bash
#
# Startup [...]

Plesk:: Login Failed (Unable to login to Horde Webmail)

While Login into Horde Webmail gives :Login failed error then follow the below steps to fix this problem:-
1) By command line using telnet please check if you are able to connect to localhost:143 from the command line using telnet and if you get the error as below:
# telnet localhost 143
localhost/143: Name or service not [...]

File transfer process through VPS

It is one of the most basic thing you will need to perform is to transfer all your files from your VPS to your local machine or from local machine to VPS. To do this task there are many programs that you can use to copy your files between your local computer and your VPS. [...]

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