Whilst trying to connect to a windows 2003 server via smbclient, I kept recieivng the error message “NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME”. After much google searching I found that the solution is to drop the trailing slash .. so simple .. so easy. I hate samba. The error I kept receiving was tree...

For some reason I always get confused which command works on what operating system in order to remove startup scripts under a redhat based distribution. For Centos use /sbin/chkconfig –del For Debian use update-rc.d Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

Do you have an account in Web Host Manager (WHM) that for some reason, is missing under the “list accounts” page? This can sometimes happen when you try a cPanel transfer and it fails. The easiest solution to fix this “WHM account missing” problem, is to follow this step; Login...

Are you trying to install BitTorrent on Centos using YUM? By default it won’t work. I tried a rpm -i bittorrent, but it reported that I needed 6 python dependencies. Screw that. What to save some time? Try this! cd /etc/yum.repos.d wget http://centos.karan.org/kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo Next...

Use the following exim command to debug and find where your config has gone wrong! /usr/sbin/exim -d -bt test@domain.com Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

Handy! postsuper -d ALL -d queue_id Delete one message with the named queue ID from the named mail queue(s) (default: hold, incoming, active and deferred). If a queue_id of - is specified, the program reads queue IDs...

How many mails on the Queue exim -bpr | grep “

Just something I used today to move a 60Meg table .. something phpMyAdmin refused to import This command will utilize mysqldump to move data between two mysql servers. You need to make sure you have permission to access the SECOND server, either by specifying an access mask or using a wildcard (%)...

I had the need to delete all bounce messages in a sendmail mail queue, so I used the following find /var/spool/mqueue -name '*' -type f |xargs grep -l "User unknown" |xargs rm Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

If you, like me, can’t stand that obnoxious system beep in VMWare and have discovered that you can’t cut speaker wires inside a VM, you will probably appreciate this tip. Add the following line to your preferences file (~/.vmware/preferences on linux, preferences.ini on windows): mks.noBeep...

Jonesy came through again with a command that helped me out big time. I had all this mail queued up that I wanted to remove. mailq |grep -B1 your@address.com|awk '{print $2 "-D"}' |grep -v "^-D$" |sed 's/-D$//g' |awk '{print "/usr/sbin/exim -Mrm "$1}'|sh Pretty much this will remove all items that are...

To delete large emails from a postfix or sendmail queue; find . -size +1000k 2>/dev/null |sed -e ‘s/^\.\///g;p;s/^d/q/g’ | xargs rm -rf (cd /var/spool/mqueue; find . -size +1000k 2>/dev/null |sed -e ‘s/^\.\///g;p;s/^d/q/g’ | awk ‘{print “mv ” $1 ” /folder/to/move/to/”}’...