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Script for clearing unwanted queued emails from the server

by Aromal Rajagopal | May 24, 2009 | Quick fixes, Technical | 0 comments

Here is a small but handy script which will clear the queued emails from the server. exim -bpc exim -bpru | grep frozen | awk {‘print $3’}|xargs exim -Mrm exim -bpru | grep “<>” | awk {‘print $3’}|xargs exim -Mrm exim -bpru |...

Tutorial on clearing Disk Space on a Server

by Aromal Rajagopal | May 24, 2009 | Articles and tutorials, Popular Posts, Quick fixes, Technical | 0 comments

Running out of disk space is a very common issue. Be it a web-hosting service provider or the end-user. I wanted to share a few tips that the technical support staff at InstaCarma use to resolve disk-space issues on a cPanel server. As we all know, there are...

Transferring a Mailing list

by Aromal Rajagopal | May 23, 2009 | Quick fixes, Technical | 0 comments

Issue: How to transfer mailman mailing lists ? Fix: There are different mailman related binaries installed in a cPanel server at /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/ folder. The binaries config_list , list_members and add_members can be used for this purpose....

Managing server load while packaging accounts

by Aromal Rajagopal | May 23, 2009 | Quick fixes, Technical | 0 comments

We all are aware of the fact that while packaging accounts, the load on the server spikes, and we need to monitor the load simultaneously to maintain stability. Most of the time we renice the process to +19 0r +20. But sometimes ,this will not solve the purpose, load...

FrontPage does not accept the password

by Aromal Rajagopal | May 22, 2009 | Quick fixes, Technical | 0 comments

Issue : FrontPage not accepting the password for the domain. Reinstalling FP Extensions might not resolve this issue. Fix: Check the httpd.conf file. ================ <Directory “/”> AllowOverride None Allow from all </Directory>...