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September 5, 2011

Windows Server 2008 with multiple IP addresses on one NIC

If you are running a Windows Server 2008 installation with multiple IP addresses on one interface then you might be surprised to know that the default behaviour when selecting the IP address to use for outbound connections has changed compared to Windows Server 2003. Previously, the “main” IP address on the adapter would have been used for initiating outbound connections...

Windows Comments: 2

June 27, 2011

Zimbra mailbox import/export and migration of e-mail filter rules

Zimbra has a fantastically useful built in system for exporting an entire mailbox, including the contents of the entire e-mail inbox, calendar, address book and briefcase ready to be imported on another Zimbra server either via the web interface or using zmmailbox from the command line. This makes migrating mailboxes between separate Zimbra installations incredibly easy. You can export a...

Zimbra Comment: 1

June 27, 2011

Parallels Plesk and Atomic Secured Linux

If you are experiencing HTTP 500 Internal Server Error messages from the license management part of the Parallels Plesk control panel when running on Atomic Secured Linux, then you are probably running into some buggy anti-reverse engineering code that Parallels have built into the Plesk software. It seems that Parallels are using ptrace to determine if someone has attached a...

Plesk Comment: 1

June 26, 2011

EPEL NSD RPM and the missing PID file directory

NSD is a fantastic authoritative nameserver from NLnet Labs which was developed in conjunction with the RIPE NCC to be a highly scalable, secure authoritative nameserver which has no recursive features by design. In fact, it is such as good nameserver that it is used on three of the root namesevers (k.root-servers.net, h.root-servers.net and l.root-servers.net). Thanks to the EPEL project...

Red Hat and CentOS Comments: 0

June 19, 2011

Remove CDP 2.0 cPanel integration

A handy feature of R1Soft CDP Server 2.0 (now known as Enterprise Edition) is that it can integrate with cPanel so that your users can restore their own files from your backups using a self service interface. If you want to remove this integration for any reason, then R1Soft provide a BASH shell script to do this for you: /usr/lib/buagent/control-panels/cpanel/remove-cpanel-integration.sh...

cPanel/WHM/R1Soft CDP Comments: 0

June 12, 2011

R1Soft CDP 3.0 and commercial SSL certificates

Chances are that you will want to protect the web interface for your R1Soft CDP 3.0 server with a commercial SSL certificate issued by a known, trusted certificate authority. After all, you are sending some pretty sensitive data between your browser the and the R1Soft CDP 3.0 web interface and you want to know not only that it is encrypted...

R1Soft CDP Comments: 0

June 12, 2011

R1Soft CDP 3.0 with Atomic Secured Linux and PAX

If you want to run R1Soft CDP 3.0 on a system protected by Atomic Secured Linux and the ASL enhanced kernel with PaX/grsecurity then you need to disable memory protection for the CDP 3.0 binary. You do this by using paxctl to set the NOMPROTECT flag for the CDP 3.0 binary. /sbin/paxctl -m /usr/sbin/r1soft/bin/2-6/cdp-2-6 Unfortunately the CDP 3.0 binary lacks...

R1Soft CDP Comments: 0

June 5, 2011

Fortinet FortiOS firmware upgrade – Upload file is too big or invalid

If you receive an “Upload file is too big or invalid” error message when trying to upload a new FortiOS image to your Fortinet device via the web interface, then the first thing to try is giving the device a quick reboot in order to free up memory to hold the uploaded copy of the firmware image. If this doesn’t...

Fortinet Comments: 0

May 29, 2011

R1Soft CDP 3.0 – java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost UnknownHostException

When you launch the CDP 3.0 web interface for the first time, you are prompted to activate your license, or at least you should be. If instead you get a Java error then take a look in /usr/sbin/r1soft/log/monitor.log and you will probably see something like this: INFO | buserver | 2011/05/29 16:21:59 | May 29, 2011 4:21:59 PM org.zkoss.zk.ui.impl.UiEngineImpl handleError:1253...

R1Soft CDP Comments: 0

April 28, 2011

R1Soft CDP scheduler issues

After spending quite some time with R1Soft support investigating some bizarre issues where the CDP 2.0 scheduler was skipping over some tasks seemingly at random, we eventually discovered that the issue was caused by setting the e-mail reporting task to run every minute. Decreasing the frequency of this task allowed all scheduled CDP tasks to run as normal. R1Soft are...

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