All bind templates are at "/usr/lib/opcenter/bind" location.

Modify "named_conf_zone.tmpl" file to allow for transfers adding in the IP addresses of secondary DNS.

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:

Reboot the server, then run the "NBDetectchanges"

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.

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:

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:

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

Step 4: Choose the java just installed as default:

Here is the sql to reset admin password for wordpress:

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

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".

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:

To:

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.

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:

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.

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

When developers shift from PHP, Ruby or any other platform to Python, the very first road block they face (most often) is a lack of an overall understanding of the Python ecosystem. Developers often yearn for a tutorial or resource that explains how to accomplish most tasks in a more or less standard way.

What follows is an extract from the internal wiki at my workplace, which documents the basics of the Python ecosystem for web application development for our interns, trainees and experienced developers who shift to Python from other platforms.