After getting completely pissed off by referrer spam in my log files, I included the following apache rewrite rules in to my server config. It basically checks the referrer string for various keywords …
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
I got an odd error today when trying to upgrade webmin on one of our web servers. When rpm ran we got a pile of errors including the message "rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery" …
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Spam go bye bye
I've been running spam black lists on our servers for a few years now. Lately I've found that we had too many legitimate emails blocked by this method of filtering and have looked for alternatives. I …
Changing .htaccess passwords with usermin
A few hosting clients have been ask about how to set website passwords without command line access. I've put a short tutorial in the Support Forum explaining how to do it with usermin. …
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Wild Cards in logrotate
Duh Doh Duh etc (repeat). Silly me has just realised you can wild card directories in logrotate configuration scripts. I've been writing an individual logrotate command for each hosted domain on our …
Must be the russians..!
A strange request in an error log? Must be the russians..! A missing line in a http request? Must be the russians..! Wierd files in the /tmp folder? Masses of pings from dialup accounts? Must be …