http://www.keithdmitchell.com Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:53:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2011/12/02/not-able-to-restart-or-start-plesk-for-linux-9-x-9-3/ http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2011/12/02/not-able-to-restart-or-start-plesk-for-linux-9-x-9-3/#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:45:50 +0000 keith http://www.keithdmitchell.com/?p=539 Apparently there is a bug that affects Plesk versions 9.x to 9.3, however it was addressed in Plesk 9.5. You can identify this bug if you are unable to start or restart your plesk instance. if this happens you will need to view the error log for Plesk, located at “/var/log/sw-cp-server/error_log”. If you see the [...]]]> http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2011/12/02/not-able-to-restart-or-start-plesk-for-linux-9-x-9-3/feed/ 0 http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2011/04/07/adjusting-the-amount-of-swap-on-a-linux-server-rhel-centos/ http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2011/04/07/adjusting-the-amount-of-swap-on-a-linux-server-rhel-centos/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:34:48 +0000 keith http://www.keithdmitchell.com/?p=495 Swap or Swappiness is the amount of storage that the Linux OS can use as virutal memory, just like how a Windows OS can use storage and use it as virtual memory. This works side by side with your physical memory can comes into play when either the amount of physical memory is exhausted or [...]]]> http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2011/04/07/adjusting-the-amount-of-swap-on-a-linux-server-rhel-centos/feed/ 0 http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2010/12/14/upgrading-openssl-on-a-cpanel-server-using-version-0-9-8q/ http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2010/12/14/upgrading-openssl-on-a-cpanel-server-using-version-0-9-8q/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:24:16 +0000 keith http://www.keithdmitchell.com/?p=444 Run the following commands to install OpenSSL  on your server: mkdir /root/setup && cd /root/setup wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.8q.tar.gz tar -xvzf openssl-0.9.8q.tar.gz cd openssl-0.9.8q ./config make make install *Be  sure you allow all processes to finish gracefully before proceeding.* Run the following command to verify the installation was successful: openssl version This should return the build information for [...]]]> http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2010/12/14/upgrading-openssl-on-a-cpanel-server-using-version-0-9-8q/feed/ 0 http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2010/07/07/setting-up-a-new-user-account-for-root-access/ http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2010/07/07/setting-up-a-new-user-account-for-root-access/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:41:16 +0000 keith http://www.keithdmitchell.com/?p=431 Let’s face it, giving out your root password to your Linux server isn’t very smart or security minded. Still there are many of us who provide our root user and before we know it, we’re either looking at a compromise or a permissions issue or worse. Though it doesn’t need to be this way. No… [...]]]> http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2010/07/07/setting-up-a-new-user-account-for-root-access/feed/ 0 http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2010/07/07/how-to-disable-reverse-dns-lookups-in-proftpd/ http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2010/07/07/how-to-disable-reverse-dns-lookups-in-proftpd/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:09:47 +0000 keith http://www.keithdmitchell.com/?p=428 If you use cPanel, Plesk or any Linux control panel or Distro, you may notice that your Proftpd connection is either slow or takes some time before it becomes responsive. This is likely due to the Proftpd instance doing a Reverse DNS Lookup and it is having issues doing so. However it is possible to [...]]]> http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2010/07/07/how-to-disable-reverse-dns-lookups-in-proftpd/feed/ 0