Mikey1980's questions

I have a bash script for deploying code from a beta environment to a production environment but currently I have to add the list of files to a txt file manaully and sometime I miss some. Basically my deployment script cat/loops copying the files over. (exports/imports db as well but that's not relevant..lol)

Anyway, I'd like to use the find command to generate a list of files modified in the last 14 days. The problem is I need to strip the path out ./ in order for the deployment script to work.

Here's an example of the find command usage:

find . -type f -mtime -14 > deploy.txt

Here's the line that cats deploy.txt in my deployment script:

for i in `cat deploy.txt`; do cp -i /home/user/beta/public_html/$i /home/user/public_html/$i; done

Any idea how to accomplish this using bash scripting?

Thanks!

One of our Users is having a strange issue, before explaining the issue I should clarify that our user Exchange server is collecting mail using a POP3 connector. (not sure if it's relevant)

The user having the issue can receive all external. However 2 accounts are unable to send to her. If I send a message from one of these accounts and cc a working account then only the working account receives the message and only if it's fwd'd to the user does it come in. As I said above it's a POP3 setup, so I tried created a forwarder and tested that in the same way and the result was the same.

I've tried removing her local user profile, reintsalling Outlook, setting account up on another user account. All had the same result.

Any ideas where to go from here?

I apologize in advanced if this question is better suited for Stack Overflow.

We have a CentOS cPanel server and we want to share some PHP code base with another user. We don't have open_basedir enabled on any account and is disabled in httpd. I have created a symbolic link to the code base and set 0711 permissions on recursively but PHP still throws permission errors when scripts are included which are in another user's home dir.

What we hope to achieve is to allow user x to access user y's code base with execute permissions only. We don't mind if user y can see the code we just don't want write access to the code base. Since this code base is constantly updated we'd rather not just copy the code to user y's home dir.

Any suggestions on how to achieve this?

UPDATE: I thought PHP may have been runing in safe mode, I checked php.ini I have both safe_mode and safe_mode_gid set to Off

I've been trying for hours to enable phpMyAdmin Designer Mode on a CentOS cPanel dedicated server with no luck... here's the steps I followed, perhaps I'm missing something?

I created the pma user and granted proper permission to the phpmyadmin table:

GRANT USAGE ON mysql.* TO 'pma'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '?????';
GRANT SELECT (
    Host, User, Select_priv, Insert_priv, Update_priv, Delete_priv,
    Create_priv, Drop_priv, Reload_priv, Shutdown_priv, Process_priv,
    File_priv, Grant_priv, References_priv, Index_priv, Alter_priv,
    Show_db_priv, Super_priv, Create_tmp_table_priv, Lock_tables_priv,
    Execute_priv, Repl_slave_priv, Repl_client_priv
    ) ON mysql.user TO 'pma'@'localhost';
GRANT SELECT ON mysql.db TO 'pma'@'localhost';
GRANT SELECT ON mysql.host TO 'pma'@'localhost';
GRANT SELECT (Host, Db, User, Table_name, Table_priv, Column_priv)
    ON mysql.tables_priv TO 'pma'@'localhost';

I modified config.inc.php set the user and table names:

...
/* User used to manipulate with storage */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'pma';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = '?????';

/* Storage database and tables */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = 'phpmyadmin';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = 'pma_bookmark';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] = 'pma_relation';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] = 'pma_table_info';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] = 'pma_table_coords';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] = 'pma_pdf_pages';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info'] = 'pma_column_info';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history'] = 'pma_history';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking'] = 'pma_tracking';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['designer_coords'] = 'pma_designer_coords';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['userconfig'] = 'pma_userconfig';
...

Any idea what I could be missing?

Thanks!

UPDATE: After opening a ticket up with my hosting company/phpMyAdmin I realized didn't make it clear that I ran the create_tables.sql in /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/scripts

I have a client that is getting heavily spammed.. It's the 15th of the month and POP3 bandwidth is almost 100 GB. There are only 7 e-mail accounts on this domain. I installed SpamAssassin set it to 5 and setup 10-20 filters reject most of the junk. I don't see much of a change in POP3 bandwidth. Correct me if I'm wrong, the server still receives the message using up bandwidth in order to analyze determine a spam score.

I stumbled across faking MX records, for thoes unaware--basically you set a bogus server as the lowest and highest MX records with the working server's MX record in the middle.

For example:

fake.example.com    1
realmx.example.com  2
fake2.example.com   3

The theory is, since majority of the spam is generated from Windows-based zombies and quite a few will query for the the highest MX record to spam since usually they're usually backup servers that don't filter spam. The lowest fake MX-record is for the rest of the spammers.. and generally spammers don't retry after failures.

Has anyone tried this? Does it help? Does it delay or cause issues with mail delivery? Does anyone else have a better solution?