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How to forward mails for root to external email address using Postfix in Plesk environment

November 29, 2011
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I am running Centos 5 with Parallels Plesk Panel 10.3.1. My MTA is Postfix. I was looking for some solution to forward all the mails for user root to some external email address. Follow these steps at your own risk to achieve this. Plesk stores the mail aliases database in /var/spool/postfix/plesk/aliases.db file. If this is...

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Recover MySQL root password

August 12, 2011
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You can recover a MySQL database server password with the following five easy steps: Step # 1 : Stop the MySQL service: # /etc/init.d/mysqld stop Step # 2: Start the MySQL server w/o password:

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How to change mysql password?

August 12, 2011
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If you have never set a root password for MySQL, the server does not require a password at all for connecting as root. To set up a root password for the first time, use the mysqladmin command at the shell prompt as follows: $...

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How can I update my system to a particular update level using ISO images?

July 23, 2011
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Download the appropriate Update ISOs from Red Hat Network (RHN). Login to RHN. Click on the ‘Channels’ tab and from the left pane click ‘Download Software’. Select the appropriate...

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How to Install DenyHosts to Block SSH Attacks

June 22, 2011
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 This article will explain how to setup DenyHosts on a RedHat-based (RHEL 6, Centos 5.5, or Fedora 14) Linux server to automatically add remote IP addresses that repeatedly fail...

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How to install and configure Fail2ban to secure your Apache Webserver

June 21, 2011
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Fail2ban is used to prevent various types of DoS attacks. In combination with iptables it will ban the IP addresses which is found to be suspicious by the fail2ban...

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