Archive for July, 2009

Mac OS X: What is my default sudo password (root password)?

This item was filled under [ Mac OS X ]

By default, OS X doesn’t setup a password for your root login. There are few occasions you may want to access terminal as Super User (su), this will ask for your root password.
It’s very simple to setup root password as long as you have Admin Access (First user created on installation OS X will be [...]

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! Absolutely FREE Mail Server For your Domain from Google Apps

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Google launched its Google Apps a while back; it doesn’t seem to hit the spot yet. Many don’t know of the service Google gives out with their Apps service. When I tried for the first time I was surprise to see all those services are offered for free of charge.
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Unix shell command to Detect DDoS attack

This item was filled under [ Linux, Networking ]

Have a server? Doubt it’s under DDoS attack? There is a simple code for you to check it’s under DDoS attack or not!
Run this command:
netstat -alpn | grep :80 | awk ‘{print $5}’ |awk -F: ‘{print $(NF-1)}’ |sort | uniq -c | sort -n
This is not exactly going to say YES your under attack, this [...]

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Edit hosts File in Mac OS X

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Mac Hosts file located in /etc (OS X 10.5 Leopard). You can directly browse the host file by Going through Finder menu : Go > Go to Folder… option and enter /etc to browse all files in /etc folder.

By doublecli-cking on the host file will open in TextExit where you can make the changes. But [...]

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Plesk 9.2.1 FastCGI Apache Error

This item was filled under [ Apache, Linux ]

First of All This solution is for Linux based OS. I did it on centOS 4 x64 Running Plesk 9.2.1.
Well, If you every come across the FastCGI issue with Plesk Apache and looking for a solution, I’m sure following could help you a lot.
Problem occurs when you set-up a Domain to Run PHP in FastCGI [...]

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