Logging SNMPD messages is really a waste of resources. Oh, Great!!! My monitoring server connected and disconnected to check and see if something was running? Amazing ( Read more... )

Yum based distros are a pain to deal with at times. Repo here, repo there… all with different rules. I wanted to exclude a bunch of java based packages from being updated. I simply went into /etc/yum.conf and added the exclude line but it did not work. It was being overridden by one of the 15 repos ( Read more... )

Need to view the mail queue on a plesk box running postfix?

# mailq

mailq is a very simple command that will show the messages awaiting delivery.

# /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mailqueuemngYet another helpful command to view more information on the emails in the queue ( Read more... )