Posts tagged Linux
Installing Google Chrome on Fedora
Feb 18th
Download the rpm package from tar (gzip)
Feb 12th
GZIP vs TAR
The .tar.gz extension is a very popular one when downloading files especially in non Windows operating systems. But unlike most extensions, this is not meant to identify a single program that would be used to open this file; it points to two. Tar is a file format but is also the name of the program that produces the file. Tar is an archiver, meaning it would archive multiple files into a single file but without compression. Gzip which handles the .gz extension is the compression tool that is used to reduce the disk space used by the file.
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QMAIL Tips (plesk)
Dec 24th
Background
qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It is designed for typical Internet-connected UNIX / Linux hosts. qmail was designed to replace Sendmail, but does not behave exactly as Sendmail did in all situations. In some cases, these differences in behaviour have become grounds for criticism.
Tips (Plesk’s version / installation of qmail)
Mail Logs
tail -f /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog
PCI Compliance for Plesk (linux)
Dec 23rd
PCI Scanning stands for “Payment Card Industry” scanning. It involves having a PCI ASV (Approved Scanning Vendor) scan any and all IP addresses that the public has access to, related to your website or your site’s transaction process.
The following guide assumes you are working with a Plesk 8.6 (or above) installation on RedHat Enterprise or CentOS Linux. You will need shell / root access to your server running Plesk, if you do not have shell / root access then you will need to ask your server hosts to make the changes.
WARNING:This document does not serve as a comprehensive source for PCI compliance advice. The reader is expected to have some basic systems administration experience. Do not copy and paste examples directly from this document without first understanding their implications.
