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If you’ve ever need to reset your Blackerry, either for resale or sending it back to the factory, I’m sure you don’t want to include anything that you have saved on it. Here’s a real life saver on how to reset the Blackberry back to it’s default settings.

To erase all the data on your BlackBerry device, complete the following steps. This option is available with
BlackBerry Device Software 3.8 and later.

1. In the device Options, click Security.
   If you are using BlackBerry Device Software 4.1, click Security Options > General Security.
2. Click the trackwheel and select Wipe Handheld.
3. Click Continue.
4. Type “blackberry”. All the data on the BlackBerry device is erased.

On some new versions of blackberry software the menu navigation is slightly different.

1. Go to Options
2. Select Security Options.
3. Select General Settings
4. Click the Menu key
5. Select Wipe Handheld
6. Click Continue
7. Type “blackberry”. All the data on the BlackBerry device is erased.

That’s it. The Blackberry is ready for activation again or for repackaging.

Tags: Blackberry, factory, reset, wipe

*Please note that Plesk only supports the use of Domainkeys as of 8.6 and up*.

To switch on spam protection based on DomainKeys:

1. Click the Server shortcut in the navigation pane.
2. Click the Mail icon in the Services group.
3. Under the DomainKeys spam protection group, select the following options:
   • Allow signing outgoing mail. Selecting this option allows you and your customers to switch on support for DomainKeys e-mail signing on a per-domain basis through the domain administration screens of the control panel (Domains > domain name > Mail > Preferences > Use DomainKeys spam protection system to sign outgoing e-mail messages option). It does not automatically switch on signing of outgoing e-mail messages.
   • Verify incoming mail. Selecting this option will configure the DomainKeys system to check all e-mail messages coming to e-mail users under all domains hosted on the server.
4. Click OK.

Now your mail server will check all incoming e-mail messages to ensure that they come from the claimed senders. All messages, sent from the domains that use DomainKeys to sign e-mail, which fail verification will be discarded. All messages, sent from the domains that do not participate in the DomainKeys program and do not sign e-mail, will be accepted without verifying.

To switch on signing outgoing e-mail messages for a single domain:

1. Go to Domains > domain name > Mail > Preferences.
2. Select the Use DomainKeys spam protection system to sign outgoing e-mail messages check box.
3. Click OK.

To switch on signing outgoing e-mail messages for a number of domains at once:

1. Click Domains.
2. Select the check boxes to the left of the domain names you need. To select all domains in the list, select the upper left check box in the column heading.
3. Click Group Operations.
4. Under Preferences, select the Switch on option next to the Use DomainKeys spam protection system to sign outgoing e-mail messages field.
5. Click OK.

Now, the following will happen for the selected domains:

• Private keys are generated and placed in the server’s database.
• Public keys are generated and placed in the TXT resource records created in the domains’ DNS zones.
• The sender’s policy advertised in the DNS TXT resource records is set to “all e-mail messages sent from this domain must be cryptographically signed; if someone receives an e-mail message claiming to originate from this domain, which is not signed, then this e-mail must be discarded.”
• Outgoing e-mail messages are digitally signed: the “DomainKeys-Signature” header containing a signature based on a private key is added to the message headers.

Tags: domainkeys, Plesk

EasyApache is a pre configured script that allows you to easily update Apache Web server through WHM or SSH.
In this tutorial we will show you how to update apache using SSH /scripts/easyapache.

Requirements:
Root SSH access to your server

Login as root through SSH.
1) Login to your server and su - to root.

Run EasyApache
2) /scripts/easyapache
3) Now once you are logged in and have ran the script, you will be presented with an option to choose a profile. Seeing that this is your first time (or not) you will want to choose “Start customizing based on profile” and hit enter. You move by using the arrow keys and using the space bar or mouse to choose and option if you need to fill one out (later in the tutorial).

4) Your next screen will to choose what version of apache you wish to run. Depending on what version of cpanel you are running, your options will be different. In my instance, I am using 11.24, so I have the option for Apache 1.3, 2.0 or 2.2. Your choose will depend on if you need certain features of that version of Apache. However when in doubt, google it my friends. I’ll choose 2.0 for this instance.

5) The next step will to choose what version of php you wish to use. Keep in might that Apache is constantly upgraded, so it’s usually best to go with the newest version.

6) After you choose your php version, you will be presented with what revision you want. Once again, rule of thumb is the newest should be the one you choose, unless your program requires a specific version of php.

7) Now we get to choose several options for apache / php. Assuming that you don’t need frontpage for example, or you do want mod perl or Zend, you would choose what options you need. These are not the final options for apache / php however, this will be done on the next screen. Unlike the other screens where you selected next step to move on, here you can either finish the build by choosing save and build (which will use previous settings) or you can choose exhaustive options list, where you can customize apache /php. Choose the later to continue.

Finally, we can choose what options are available for apache / php. This can be several screens long, so make sure you scroll up and down to view all the options. Once you have selected what you need, hit the next step.

9) Now, after choosing all your options, you have the ability to either save the build but not running it or save the build and running it. Once you decide to save and build, this process takes 15-30 minutes to complete. Once it does complete, httpd will restart and the new settings will take place.

That’s it. Take note that you can also run Apache from inside of WHM/CP, but it uses more memory due to the GUI, so t’s recommended to do this via SSH, esspecially if you are on a VPS with less than 512MB of memory or a heavily trafficed server.

Tags: Cpanel, easyapache, ssh, tutorial