RPM and DEB packages are both containers for other files. An RPM is some sort of cpio archive. On the other hand, a DEB file is a pure ar archive. So, it should be possible to unpack their contents using standard archiving tools, regardless of your distribution’s package format. Under normal conditions, you should use [...]

As you know, Webalizer stats are usually updated once a day, when using a Directadmin server. What to do, if you need more current stats? Here are some solutions (work good for me on CentOS 5). If you need to update all server accounts, just type in the following command as root: echo “action=tally&value=all” >> [...]

i have been struggling to find some way or another to transfer my file from one linux server to another using commandline. Before this i was just using cpanel to do backups. Here is an easy way to accomplish transferring backup files from one server to another in linux. Just simple command using SCP (secure [...]

Script for limiting MySQL resources for every new MySQL user (it limits the number of queries, updates, and logins a MySQL user can perform). You can set any limits you want. Just copy-paste the following content to /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/custom/database_user_create_post.sh and /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/custom/database_create_post.sh:

This instruction describes how to use nginx as reverse proxy for apache, also I’ll show some tips how use nginx for heavy loaded sites. Majority of my servers are freebsd boxes, so this howto oriented on freebsd, but I’ll show some tips for linux too.