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Debugging broken mail daemons
Getting bounced mail? here let me try and explain a few of the more common problems. Have you added the domain to accept mail? You need to add the domain into the mail server so it knows to accept email for it. If it accepts mail for every domain then its fairly easy for somebody…
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Twitter competition: Win $100 worth of RimuHosting hosting credits
For a bit of fun RimuHosting is giving away a $100 VPS hosting credit. For example, that is 5 months’ worth of MiroVPS1 hosting for your own website! To enter just re-tweet this message: RT: @rimuhosting is giving away $100 worth of VPS hosting credits. Visit http://tinyurl.com/twittercredits for more info! Click for an easy retweet…
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Does your VPS have MD5 enabled for passwords?
We recently discovered that the way we install a VPS differs slightly from the usual CD install. This is not something we do specifically but something that can be improved on in the set-ups of CentOS5.3. When you install from a CD it automatically enables MD5 encryption in passwords (which should be the norm), however…
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Has your VPS been hacked?
If you use any pre-packaged software, it always pays to sign up to their mailing list or security advisory list. This means if any exploits or updates happen, you are on the ball and up to date. Today we had an email from a customer whos front page had been replaced. I noticed it was…
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Rimuhosting does Software Freedom Day
Well I’m sure most geeks out there have heard of Software Freedom Day, it was the same day as Talk like a Pirate day! I’m glad however that most people forgot ‘Talk Like a Pirate’ day however, since a good portion of the NZ Rimuhosting staff were helping out at the local SFD. John, Paul,…
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Is your VPS slow to login at all? Applications not running so fast?
Often we will get customers emailing in saying that things are just running ‘slow’. Often when we login the first thing we notice is after the password has gone through it just hangs for a fair while before login. This is usually a sign that its trying to do a reverse DNS lookup and failing.…
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Safe rm prevents accidents! try it!
I found this the today http://www.safe-rm.org.nz/ , and having had the odd accident im most definitely going to be installing this on my own server! What is safe-rm? Safe-rm is a safety tool intended to prevent the accidental deletion of important files by replacing /bin/rm with a wrapper, which checks the given arguments against a…
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Fixing apache file and directory permissions
I’ve seen this problem a few times, people having trouble getting the permissions right for websites. Heres a quick fix that will sort you in most cases For directories run find /path/to/domain/public_html/ -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755 Files run this one find /path/to/domain/public_html/ -type f | xargs chmod 644 Make sure you…
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Chrome OS and Linux
I had high hopes for netbooks bringing about an increased mindshare for Linux for ordinary users. This didn’t quite pan out unfortunately and it’s nigh impossible to find a Linux netbook at a brick and mortar store these days. Users loved the low price and mobility of a netbook, but (seemingly) didn’t appreciate the lack…