Stopping SPAM On A Server
Nov 5, 2009Can you control SPAM on a server ? I've got this email account that all receives is SPAM, nothing else. I'd like to eliminate this so it doesn't get any more SPAM.
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Stopping Spam With SpamAssasin
Jan 15, 2008Has anyone had any good results using spamassasin? If so, how did you go about setting it up? I was hoping someone would share some real world settings that work.
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May 27, 2007We're currently testing Postini after checking with Message Labs, etc and it seemed that Postini was the most highly recommended out of all of them. We shall see, as there does seem to be ALOT that get past their filters with spam level filtering set at their most sensative level.
However, what could I do for accounts with Hosting Firms. We have a couple on Pair, and while they use SA, their filters doesn't seem to be really effective at all. Users can come in over the weekend, and have 5 valid emails out of 200 junk......
BTW, has anyone used any of the spam appliances out there lately.
We tested them about 1.5 years back and none were really effective
Stopping A Game Server Remotely
Nov 7, 2008Is there a script or program which I can use to start my game servers remotely? I am giving my friend a free game server, but the problem is that he wants the power to start/stop the server because he wants to update the binaries. I am not looking for a game server control panel, but more like a small script or program that has the power to start/stop the server. The game server I am hosting for him is Team Fortress 2. Also, it has to be free since I am not going to make any profit of this.
Game - Team Fortress 2
OS - Windows 2003 Server
Web hosting - WAMP
VPS Server - CPanel, Httpd And Named Services Keeps Stopping
Nov 7, 2007We have a VPS Server from one of the most reputable VPS Provider. We have 384 Guaranteed RAM and 1GB Burst. We have Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 265 - 1795.503 MHz with 1024 KB cached allocated to our VPS.
It is only hosting 2 average forums (10-15 concurrent users in total) and 30 small websites, low traffic websites.
The problem we are having is, almost 3 times a week, the cPanel, named and apache services keeps stopping. I am monitoring our server when this is happen and prior to the event its only using about 300MB RAM and low CPU..
What could be causing this problem? Do I need to upgrade our RAM?
Plesk 11.x / Linux :: SMTP Server (Postfix) Keep Stopping
Nov 27, 2014Plesk 11.5 Lunix
Centos 5.6
I am having problem sending email. Email from others came in but when sent from the server it does not arrived.
SMTP Server (Postfix) keep stopping...
Stopping Spammers
May 13, 2007I have WHM 11.1.0 cPanel 11.2.1-C11635
FEDORA 4 i686 - WHM X v3.1.0
PHP Version 4.4.4
I'm not sure what my apache version is.
I want to try this:
http://www.webhostgear.com/232_print.html
It says it's for Apache 1.3x, PHP 4.3x
Will that work on my server? Will it be safe to try?
Stopping Site
Jul 6, 2007Currently my site is having a extreme surge in traffic (in and out). My webhost just sent me a warning, saying that my site is generating abusive traffic to the host's network.
Code:
Please be aware that abusive traffic is being generated from your IP, xx.xxx.xx.xxx, directed to our network as seen in the logs below. We have added a Nullroute for this IP on our network for a period up to 24-hours. Please take action to remove and prevent this abusive traffic from being generated. Repeated offenses will result in a permanent Nullroute of your entire network block.
2007-07-05 09:59:51 - sensor-ds04.tpa.sagonet.net - sshd[13496]: Did not receive identification string from ::ffff:xx.xxx.xx.xxx
2007-07-05 09:59:51 - unknown.sagonet.net - sshd: refused connect from ::ffff:xx.xxx.xx.xxx (::ffff:xx.xxx.xx.xxx)
2007-07-05 09:59:51 - spamassassin-lbb.tpa.sagonet.net - sshd[24910]: Did not receive identification string from xx.xxx.xx.xxx
2007-07-05 09:59:51 - spamassassin-lba.tpa.sagonet.net - sshd[32041]: Did not receive identification string from xx.xxx.xx.xxx
2007-07-05 09:59:51 - spamassassin-lbb.tpa.sagonet.net - sshd[24911]: Did not receive identification string from xx.xxx.xx.xxx
2007-07-05 09:59:51 - spamassassin06.cust.sagonet.com - sshd[12792]: refused connect from ::ffff:xx.xxx.xx.xxx (::ffff:xx.xxx.xx.xxx)
2007-07-05 09:59:49 - sensor-ds06.tpa.sagonet.net - sshd[99600]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 1: host name/address mismatch: xx.xxx.xx.xxx != thtdomains.com
2007-07-05 09:59:49 - sensor-ds06.tpa.sagonet.net - sshd[99600]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 1: host name/address mismatch: xx.xxx.xx.xxx != thtdomains.com
2007-07-05 09:59:49 - sensor-ds06.tpa.sagonet.net - kernel: Jul 5 09:59:49 sensor-ds06 sshd[99600]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 1: host name/address mismatch: xx.xxx.xx.xxx != thtdomains.com
2007-07-05 09:59:49 - sensor-ds06.tpa.sagonet.net - kernel: Jul 5 09:59:49 sensor-ds06 sshd[99600]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 1: host name/address mismatch: xx.xxx.xx.xxx != thtdomains.com
2007-07-05 09:59:49 - sensor-ds06.tpa.sagonet.net - sshd[99600]: refused connect from xx.xxx.xx.xxx (xx.xxx.xx.xxx)
2007-07-05 09:59:49 - sensor-ds06.tpa.sagonet.net - sshd[99600]: refused connect from xx.xxx.xx.xxx (xx.xxx.xx.xxx)
2007-07-05 09:59:49 - sensor-ds06.tpa.sagonet.net - kernel: Jul 5 09:59:49 sensor-ds06 sshd[99600]: refused connect from xx.xxx.xx.xxx (xx.xxx.xx.xxx)
2007-07-05 09:59:49 - sensor-ds06.tpa.sagonet.net - kernel: Jul 5 09:59:49 sensor-ds06 sshd[99600]: refused connect from xx.xxx.xx.xxx (xx.xxx.xx.xxx)
2007-07-05 09:59:52 - sensor-ar01.tpa.sagonet.net - sshd[12730]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 1: host name/address mismatch: xx.xxx.xx.xxx != thtdomains.com
My VPS is using Plesk v8.01 as the control panel. I have purchased my own 3 IPs so I'm sure this is not the case of sharing the same IP with another account.
I've checked the cgi-bin directory but there is nothing there except the usual default file (test.cgi). And I never have the right to alter the cgi-bin directory (can't remove, can't add files).
The traffic surge costs me 10 GB (in) and 5 GB (out) bandwidth a day as opposed to the normal 100~200 MB a day. I haven't ask them the exact form of the abuse. So far, I think my IP has becoming the source of abusive traffic that burdens THEIR server.
I've checked the latest access.log and everything looks normal.
But when I checked using menu Virtuozzo/Traffic Statistics, I can see that the incoming and outgoing traffic are surging up unnaturally (this is the third day).
Hour/Incoming/Outgoing (in MB):
Code:
01 5.61 26.31
02 4.94 25.11
03 6.77 33.48
04 10.42 47.17
05 91.43 94.06
06 289.51 196.99
07 309.13 200.02
08 51.78 33.33
Stopping An Ffmpeg Conversion
Sep 4, 2008I have ffmpeg installed on a webserver. If I enter the command to begin a conversion process, or the command is sent through PHP via exec(), it keeps going until it finishes or runs into an error.
Is there a way to cancel a conversion process after it's been started either through the command line or via PHP exec()?
CSF Too Late Stopping DOS Attacks
Nov 7, 2008I have CSF on my server (configserver security and firewall) and it blocks the IP when my server gets attacked, but it always seems to be a little too late... Apache goes down, even though the IP is blocked. I end up running:
iptables -I INPUT -s xx.xx.xx.xx -j DROP
service httpd restart
And that tends to sort things out... but the thing is, sometimes they still manage to attack and even though csf sends me messages explaining how it is connecting, I can check the "deny IPs" and the ip shows as blocked...
What other software is there (eg. mod_evasive... but how can I install it...) that I can run without harming my server, causing problems with CSF or any problems for that matter and how can I install it?
Stopping Updating Cron.deny
Jun 12, 2007I designed one of my web services so that 'nobody' has to put commands to cron. Unfortunately this thing stops to work from time to time because "someone" is putting 'nobody' back to cron.deny file.
How to stop that?
Apache Keeps Stopping. MULTIPLE Times Per Day!
Jul 1, 2009Apache keeps stopping. MULTIPLE times per day! There is no logic to when it dies. But about every 2 hours.
Load stays below .30 and there is free memory available.
This is on a VPS machine. None of the other VPS's are having an issue. Just this one.
Centos release 5.3 (Final)
Apache/2.2.3
Here is what is in the httpd.conf file. I realize the numbers are way too high, but just trying to get this issue to go away.
Code:
<IfModule prefork.c>
StartServers 100
MinSpareServers 100
MaxSpareServers 100
ServerLimit 512
MaxClients 512
MaxRequestsPerChild 4000
</IfModule>
<IfModule worker.c>
StartServers 100
MaxClients 500
MinSpareThreads 25
MaxSpareThreads 75
ThreadsPerChild 25
MaxRequestsPerChild 100
</IfModule>
Here is what is in the /var/log/httpd/error_log file before it dies:
Code:
[Wed Jul 01 18:06:32 2009] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 8 children, there are 98 idle, and 108 total children
[Wed Jul 01 18:08:17 2009] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 8 children, there are 74 idle, and 76 total children
[Wed Jul 01 18:08:18 2009] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 16 children, there are 63 idle, and 63 total children
[Wed Jul 01 18:08:19 2009] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 32 children, there are 79 idle, and 79 total children
[Wed Jul 01 18:11:36 2009] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 8 children, there are 93 idle, and 108 total children
Smoothly Moving Vbulletin Without Stopping It
Jul 9, 2007I will move my vbulletin site from one server to another server.
my web data is more than 10G including mysql data, I know I may stop the vbulletin at first and move data. but I am expecting a minimal forum-stop time or no forum-stop time.
My concern is, if I don't stop the vbulletin at first, after I dump sql data out and retore them to the new server, it would be more than 3-4 hours, there must be some new data come in during that period. how may I keep the vbulletin running and move all data to new server?
Plesk 12.x / Linux :: Backup Stopping At 2GB?
Jul 15, 2015I am trying to run backups to an off site location, however, I have noticed that even if I try on the server side, it will only backup 2gb, which when I check the backup, the file structure is there, but there arent any files in the backups.
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Jun 16, 2009I saw some spams and I try to remove them on my cPanel server from WHM > Mail Queue
Message 1MFr0q-0001cK-TV is locked
Message 1MGJLb-0001UL-4y is locked
Message 1MGIqC-00036q-7v is locked
Message 1MGIvk-00044Q-5r is locked
Message 1MGJpk-0003fU-5K is locked
Message 1MGJK9-00015D-US is locked
Message 1MGJhL-00006a-Mh is locked
Message 1MGHK4-0004e6-60 is locked
Message 1MFrD4-0002Up-OX is locked
I can't seem to remove them. What's the way to kill them at once?
Plesk 11.x / Windows :: MySQL Stopping With No Apparent Reason
Apr 2, 2014PRODUCT, Plesk for Windows VERSION 11.5 latest update VERSION OF MICROUPDATE 11.5.30 Actualizar #39, OPERATING SYSTEM Windows 2008 Server Suddently with no apparent reason, MYSQL stops and Ihave to go to the panel and restart it.
Every Morning I have to restart MySQL thru the control panel in remote console of windows..Works all day long, and then stops at night..Should work as always did, for several months I did not even reboot the server, no I have to reboot the server to see if that fixes the problem. Latest windows update, latest Plesk for windows update, but I have the feeling that with the latest microupdate something has broken,
Plesk 11.x / Windows :: Move Spam To Spam Folder Not Available?
Oct 17, 2013Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1
Panel version 11.0.9 Update #59, last updated at Oct 3, 2013 02:06 AM
MailEnable version 5
I see in the plesk documentation that the screen to enable SPAM filtering for an individual there is an option to "Move spam to the Spam folder". I don't see that option so I am wondering if it is only available on some versions of Plesk, or in combination with certain mail servers. How to make that option available?
Spam Being Sent From Our Server.. But How And From Where
Apr 2, 2009We're using whm/cpanel and we're always up to date with the latest upgrades (with all our scripts).
2 weeks ago, we receive a notification from SpamCop saying that our server was sending out spam. We verified everything and found nothing. 2 days ago, same story.
We tried looking at our logs and found nothing. Does this mean that there's a security hole somewhere? How can we find out from where the spammer is sending his viagra emails from ? We do not want to be permanently banned because of a spammer.
Spam From Server
Jul 14, 2009I noticed that reported server usage from Plesk is 2.x - 3.x, so I went to mail queue (in Plesk) and saw lots of mails that shouldn't be there.
There were several senders under the domain dedibox.fr sendint LOTS of emails to lots of addresses in the same email. There shouldn't be a sender @dedibox.fr, as that domain isn't hosted on our dedicated server.
I know little about Linux administration... I tried going to the /var/log folder and grep for dedibox on the messages and maillog files, but nothing found...
How can I know if someone connected to our server as an user or something like that?
Server Is Over-run By Spam
Dec 16, 2008I'm hosted with elitehosts.com, they've been absolutely GREAT for 2 years now.
However, one of my sites gets SOOO much spam email that the host cannot handle it. Apparently the limit is like 500/hour.
The result is email for the domain is no longer dependable.
Senders to the domain get undeliverable bouncebacks.
Is there anyway to fix the problem? The server side spam filters catch the email, but doesn't solve the problem of all the incoming mail.
Is finding a new host (if even just for email) my only option?
Spam Is Being Sent From My Server!
Apr 7, 2008Have any of your seen anything like this before?
Someone is somehow sending spam via my server.
Looking at /var/log/exim_mainlog I can see many entries like the following:
2008-04-07 21:10:43 1Jixfv-0006ad-4Y [= [] H=smtp.inet.fi [192.89.123.192] P=esmtp S=4192 id=I81c2X5ll000c597d@smtpgw.lapit.fi
2008-04-07 21:10:43 1Jixfv-0006ad-4Y =] info [bot@dole.ie] R=virtual_user T=virtual_userdelivery
2008-04-07 21:10:43 1Jixfv-0006ad-4Y Completed
So it looks like this is an e-mail being sent to bot@dole.ie
However when I look at my mail I can see the mails are being sent FROM bot@dole.ie. For example:
Sorry, but Lyris ListManager did not find your email address
-] "bot@dole.ie"
listed as a member of techno-l.
Only members of techno-l are allowed to contribute messages.
Because Lyris ListManager could not confirm that you are a member of techno-l, your message was not accepted.
---
Return-Path: [bot@dole.ie]
Received: from mail.reginamater.com ([201.231.192.60]) by listserver.knowledgeexpress.com with SMTP (Lyris ListManager WIN32 version 8.9a); Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:01:23 -0500
Message-ID: [000501c898ea$068d922e$f5014499@bhudl]
From: "gun mella" [bot@dole.ie]
To: [techno-l@techno-l.org]
Subject: Don't pay too much for your drugs. Buy from us.
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:15:12 +0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198
4 free pills with every order
[url]
...
There are lots of bounced e-mails being sent back to me.
Does anyone know how I can check to see what's spending the spam or how to stop it?
SPAM Going Out Of Our Server, HOW ?
Feb 8, 2007For some days now, the server`s been sending spam through our main domain, under different email aliases that don`t even exist : fdg@domain.com , gfhh@domain.com ( email aliases that don`t even exist )( I changed my domain with domain.com for privacy measures )....so on.. I tried to check what is sending out emails. Any idea how to track/check/scan for what is sending out emails?
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Oct 29, 2006I have:
WHM 10.8.0 cPanel 10.9.0-R44
CentOS 3.8 i686 - WHM X v3.1.0
I've gotten several complaints through spamcop in the last several weeks. The headers show the spam mails coming from nobody@ my server and they show the originating IP as my server. The datacenter is threatening to shut me down.
I've looked in the mail queue and haven't found any of the sent spam mails in there (or bounces from them). I am getting bounces into horde that were apparently sent from me.
How do I find which client is sending them? Or maybe the server has been hacked and spam software uploaded somewhere?
Server IP On Spam List
Jan 1, 2009I recieved a new block of ips from my server folks and this block is worse than before, the main ip is on more than 10 spam lists.
How do I resolve this? Is there a way a server company can select a clean block of ips?
can I set the email program to use a separate ip or something intead of changing ips of server?
ThePlanet Server Spam
May 20, 2009how to best deal with email spam.
Here is what's up...
I recently got a dedicated server with The Planet. WHM/Cpanel...
I am a designer and starting to host my clients. So far i've setup about 5 different clients and everyone says the same thing...
Since they've switched to my server the email spam they get to their emails is out of control.
I asked The Planet for help and they said to make sure some spam filters were automatically checked for each account in my WHM and in their unique cpanel accounts, and they are but it hasnt helped. They also have a spam service but i do not want to pay any more per month than i already am.
What would cause this to be so bad versus my clients old servers?
Secondly, what open source solutions are there out there and who is the best to hire to install them on my server?
Server Sending Spam
Jan 11, 2009I currently have a dedicated server, Linux, with 1 website on it that is sending spam.
At first I thought it was someone spoofing my email address, however when I check my servers Email queue I can see the spam emails in there being sent.
My problem is that I have contacted my server provider and support for the scripts I'm running and everyone is saying its the other persons fault. My server provider is saying everything is up to date and it must be a software exploit on one of my scripts, and the support team from my software is saying its not them that its the server.
Email Spam From My Own Server
Dec 19, 2008I received many email spam recently, with the sender address from my own server.
Eg.
my domain = www.shashinki.com
email spam that I received = shop@shashinki.com which is being sent to my own email address of shop@shashinki.com. Yes, the sender is my own email address account.
I checked using gmail and the sender is from my own server IP address and the sender's email address seems to be valid and is from my own email account.
I have changed the password of my email address, added SPF to my email system...etc. I have done all that I can think of, but I still get the same spam emails.
What can I do and what should I do? I got really tired of this and I am worried that my server is being used to send spams to others.
My server is with LayeredTech, unmanaged server, so I dont have a manager to help me.
Hope to get some insight and help from sifus here...
Spam Emails Being Sent From Server
Nov 25, 2008I have reason to believe that a site on my server was hacked and is now being used to send out spam emails.
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