How to enable DKIM in cPanel server.

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Exim: remove mails in queue from a particular sender.E

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“spams”, its one of the major issue that a sys admin has to deal with throughout his job.  First you need to find the user who is generating it. You can get it from the mail headers.  Once you find the user, disable the script that was responsible for spams, but it may have already kept thousands(may be lacks) of mails in the exim queue waiting for its chance to get delivered.  To delete these mails one by one is impossible.  In a cPanel server having exim mail,  you can use the following command to delete mails in the current queue generated by that particular user only.

SSH into the server
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How to configure NAT with iptables on a VPS.

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NAT ( network-address-translation ) with iptables  helps us in how to select the packets we want to mangle. We can easily configure NAT on a OpenVZ VPS by following the below steps.

Lets first consider a VPS in which NAT is not enabled. Trying to POSTROUTE from VPS throws you errors.

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How to disable gzip output on lightspeed server accounts

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You can use .htaccess to disable gzip output if your website is running under a lightspeed server.

Open .htacess file and append following lines.

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Find Linux OS is 32 or 64bit.

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There are several situations where you need to confirm whether your Linux OS installed  is 32bit or 64bit. People normally use uname -a to find it. But the following command will tell you exactly the machine   architecture.

getconf LONG_BIT

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songbird! iTunes for Ubuntu

Faheem    Home, Linux     Songbird, Songbird installation, songbird installation on 9.10

Songbird is a opensource music player that utilizes the cross platform frameworks and will runs in Linux, Apple, Solaris & Windows.

You can get it downloaded for free from here

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How to transfer a cPanel account to DirectAdmin.

Faheem    Home, Linux, Tips & Tricks     cPanel, cPanel to directadmin, directadmin, tool to convert backup

The file structure and back-ups for both control panels are entirely different and its quite difficult to restore the files transfered from one to another control panel manually. There is a script available which can convert a cPanel back-up to the format that of a DirectAdmin. The convert process is quite simple.

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How to change Linux root password temporarily.

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This is a simple technique by which you can have your our root password temporarily and change it back to the real one after use. The condition is

* You are logged in as root and you don’t know the root password

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How to install winrar for Linux

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You can install & use winrar for Linux. The installation is quite simple to follow even for Linux newbies.

Open a terminal, type sudo su – to switch to root.

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Install file splitter for Linux.

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Download HJSplitlx file splitter for Linux from here :

tar -xzf hjsplitlx.tar.gz to extract the file HJSplitLX

Install the basic requirements :

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