I recently had a problem where a website runs normally all month, but after an “update notification Email” was sent, the website ground to a halt. The first useful command I found was `free` which displays the memory status. total …
Read moreDynamic robots.txt
After installing zbblock, I took a look at all the bots visiting my site. There are obvious ones that are welcome, Google, Bing, Yahoo to name but a few. Others are not so welcome. They eat up your bandwidth and …
Read moreIMAP error message with Courier
I have just installed ISPconfig3, a hosting system on my Debian Linux machine. I created an Email account for myself, but when I tried to connect with Thunderbird-IMAP I kept getting the error message “Filesystem notification initialization error — contact …
Read moreLenny to Squeeze
There comes a time when you have to upgrade your Debian distribution to the new release. I was on Lenny, Squeeze had been out for a month. To upgrade, all I had to do was to edit my apt source …
Read moreDebian upgrade
I am attempting to upgrade my Debian secondary host from lenny to squeeze. Wish me luck.
Read moreSecure FTP (Secure Shell (ssh) FTP)
A couple of years ago, I had a struggle configuring a secure FTP server. It involved installing restricted shells (rssh), creating that shells own directory system, and making copies of library DLLs because the rssh could not see outside its …
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