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Changing IP address of Ensim server

Wed, 04/03/2013 - 15:33 — sandip

To change the IP address of an Ensim server, modify the following files replacing any instance of the old IP address with the new one:

/etc/hosts
/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/sysconfig/network
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
/etc/virtualhosting/namebased_ip_addrs
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd20_app.conf
/etc/virtualhosting/localnameserver
/etc/bind/options.conf.wp />/home/virtual/FILESYSTEMTEMPLATE/siteinfo/etc/resolv.conf

Reboot the server, then run the "NBDetectchanges"

/usr/local/bin/NBDetectchanges

How to install Icinga (Nagios Fork) in Ubuntu 12.10 server

Fri, 03/15/2013 - 02:25 — david23

Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over networks and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries and generates performance data for reporting. Scalable and extensible, Icinga can monitor complex, large environments across dispersed locations.

manually updating java in ubuntu

Wed, 02/27/2013 - 09:59 — sandip

Below is outlined the process of updating to the latest JDK in ubuntu and updating the alternatives link manually to point the the latest java:

Step 1: Download:

wget http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u15-b03/jdk-7u15-linux-x64.tar.gz
cd /usr/lib/jvm/
tar -xzf ~/downloads/jdk-7u15-linux-x64.tar.gz

Step 2: If java-7-sun already exists, the below is all that is needed if not skip to step 3 if this is the first time it is setup:

unlink java-7-sun
ln -s jdk1.7.0_15 java-7-sun

Step 3: If java-7-sun link does not already exists:

ln -s jdk1.7.0_15 java-7-sun
update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-sun/bin/java" 1
update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javac" "javac" "/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-sun/bin/javac" 1
update-alternatives --install "/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so" "mozilla-javaplugin.so" "/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-sun/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so"; 1
update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javaws" "javaws" "/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-sun/bin/javaws" 1

Step 4: Choose the java just installed as default:

update-alternatives --config java
update-alternatives --config javac
update-alternatives --config javaws
update-alternatives --config mozilla-javaplugin.so

Resetting WordPress admin password

Fri, 02/22/2013 - 14:09 — sandip

Here is the sql to reset admin password for wordpress:

update wp_users set user_pass=md5("NEWPASS") where ID=1;

Even if the passwords are salted, you can still replace the password with an MD5 hash.

Install yum from centos vault

Tue, 02/12/2013 - 14:53 — sandip

I had to update an old release of CentOS-5.5 on an OpenVZ container where yum was not available.

The below script should automatically download and install the required rpms from "vault.centos.org".

#!/bin/bash
# install_yum.sh
rpms="
        rpm-libs-4.4.2.3-18.el5.x86_64.rpm
        popt-1.10.2.3-18.el5.x86_64.rpm
    &nbsp;   rpm-4.4.2.3-18.el5.x86_64.rpm<br />    &nbsp;   python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.x86_64.rpm
    &nbsp;   python-iniparse-0.2.3-4.el5.noarch.rpm
    &nbsp;   python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.x86_64.rpm
    &nbsp;   rpm-python-4.4.2.3-18.el5.x86_64.rpm
    &nbsp;   python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-5.el5.noarch.rpm
    &nbsp;   yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-14.el5.centos.1.noarch.rpm
    &nbsp;   yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-3.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm
    &nbsp;   yum-3.2.22-26.el5.centos.noarch.rpm
"
for rpm in $rpms
do
rpm -Uvh --nodeps http://vault.centos.org/5.5/os/x86_64/CentOS/${rpm};
done

Disabling IDLE in courier-imap

Wed, 02/06/2013 - 09:26 — sandip

Apple and BlackBerry email clients has a configurable setting to use the IMAP IDLE functionality to stay logged in, periodically checking email. This causes imapd to run out of daemons and stop responding. One solution is to raise MAXDAEMONS in /etc/courier-imap/imapd, but will eventually cause high loads on the server.

The better solution is to disable IDLE entirely in /etc/courier-imap/imapd by removing "IDLE" option from "IMAP_CAPABILITY".

Change:

IMAP_CAPABILITY="IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE"

To:

IMAP_CAPABILITY="IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA"

Upon courier-imap restart, this should prevent connections from persisting.

Telnet to imap port 143 to verify that the IDLE option is not present anymore in CAPABILITY response from the server.

My IP

Thu, 01/10/2013 - 15:36 — sandip

IP Address: 123.125.71.51



force qmail to process mail queue

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 22:16 — sandip

Use qmail-qstat or qmail-qread to check the messages in queue.

Run qmail-tcpok to clear out the TCP timeout table.

After that, send the "ALRM " signal to the "qmail-send" process, and Qmail will process all messages in the queue immediately:

kill -ALRM `ps ax | grep [q]mail-send | awk '{print $1}'`

monitor and kill long running mysql select statements

Fri, 12/21/2012 - 17:29 — sandip

Below script checks and kills any sql SELECT statements that has been running for more than 60 seconds. The script can be added to a cron task to be run periodically. Make sure to check the log file it creates to keep an eye on the long running sql statements and tune it.

#!/bin/bash

LOG=/tmp/kill_mysql.log
SECONDS=60

echo "####" `date` "####" >>${LOG}
PIDS=$(mysql -t -e 'show full processlist' | awk -F'|' -v seconds="$SECONDS" '$7 > seconds  && toupper($9) ~ /^ SELECT/ {print $0}' | tee -a $LOG | awk -F'|' '{print $2}')
[ -n "$PIDS" ] && mysqladmin kill `echo $PIDS | tr ' ' ','`

Prior to running it, setup the root login in "~/.my.cnf" file with the login credentials:

[client]
user=root
password=xxxxxxxx

Install ImageMagick with PHP imagick extension on CentOS-5.8

Tue, 11/20/2012 - 11:27 — sandip

You can easily install ImageMagick and PHP imagick extension from remi repository. There are some dependencies from epel repository too.

yum --enablerepo=remi,epel install ImageMagick.x86_64 php-pecl-imagick.x86_64

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