Linux: How to clear the cache from memory

Linux has a supposedly good memory management feature that will use up any “extra” RAM you have to cache stuff. This section of the memory being used is SUPPOSED to be freely available to be taken over by any other process that actually needs it, but unfortunately my Linux (three distros now, Mandriva 32 bit, [...]

BEWARE OF PHISHING IN GMAIL AND ORKUT !!

There are many phishing attacks against orkut. So beware of them !!! The links will take you to a website which looks similar to Orkut login page. But if you check carefully you can see that the URL is not Orkut.com but http://www.updatehere.net.ms/. If you give your username and password here, then your account is [...]

Bom Sabado Worm is Fixed By Google !

From Google !! This is to inform you all that we’ve contained the “Bom Sabado” virus and have identified the bug that allowed this and have fixed it. We’re currently working on restoring the affected profiles. Thanks a ton to each of you who’s made an effort to alert everyone else about this. I’ll make [...]

How to fix “Firefox is already running” error

Sometimes when you try to start Firefox, it warns you that Firefox is already running. The message looks like this: Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. Usually, you can just kill the firefox process to solve [...]

htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable

FIX ******* Disable Mcrypt in the easy apache and recompile it. It will fix it. ****************

“ERROR: Could not complete request. Query: CREATE “sent-mail” Reason Given: Invalid mailbox name.”

Squirrelmail error upon login: Create “sent-mail”, Invalid mailbox name Solution If you receive the following error message in the left menu of Squirrelmail after you login: “ERROR: Could not complete request. Query: CREATE “sent-mail” Reason Given: Invalid mailbox name.” This usually means that your configuration file(s) have been damaged and need to be recreated.  You [...]

checking Pango flags… configure: error: *** Pango not found. Pango built with Cairo support is required *** to build GTK+. See http://www.pango.org for Pango information.

First check the  environment variable “PKG_CONFIG_PATH” . It can be find by echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH. Then copy the file “pangocairo.pc” which you find inside the file “pango-1.16.0″ where you have installed it. Copy “pangocairo.pc” to “/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig”. Then configure it and make, make install  will fix the issue

Error: Not Able To Login To Front Page

FIX ******* check .htaccess file and you will get the path of the file service.pwd which will be inside the folder /home/username/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd. The ownership of this file should be username:nobody and the permissions of this file should be 640. THIS WIL FIX IT

SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:: host mail.rebushr.com [194.73.102.244]: 550 Rule imposed as 1102520@qozz.com is believed to be an open relay

It’s not an open relay. a) qozz.com should set their rejections to FAIL, not blackhole. Blachole fails silently and may “fail” poorly written relay tests since it won’t outright reject the mail (but it also won’t deliver it). root@server442 [~]# cat /etc/valiases/qozz.com *: :blackhole: Instead they should set: *: :fail: No such user here Blackhole [...]

Forbidden You don’t have permission to access /_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.exe on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/x.x.x Server at yourdomain.com Port 80

To resolve above error login into your server with root login details and follow the following steps. 1) First found out the owner for your domain where you have seems the “403 Forbidden error” and once you found out the user name for your domain then fire the following command one by one touch /home/username/public_html/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.exe [...]