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How to enable Passive ftp in Pure FTPD

August 11th, 2009 1 Comment

For users that are behind a firewall it might be required that you enable passive ftp in your ftp server and client. While enabling passive ftp in your ftp client is simple, doing so in your ftp server configuration files might be a bit tricky if you don’t know what you are doing. This...




Exim configuration and messages in mail queue – cPanel server

March 21st, 2009 0 Comments

If  you have cpanel then you can check email queue in cpanel by login to cpanel and then "Email" and then "Manage Mail Queue. In command line, you can run following command to check queue # exim -bpc If you need the summary of messages in queue then you can run # exim -bp | exiqsumm If you...

How to transfer a Linux image from VirtualBox to Xen

January 14th, 2009 0 Comments

There have been times recently when I wanted to pull a VirtualBox Linux instance I had into Xen. I kept thinking it had to be fairly easy but I kept putting off trying it until recently when I ran into something I wanted to install from a CD image into an Amazon EC2 AMI. It turns out the main...

Installing Windows 7 on VirtualBox

January 13th, 2009 0 Comments

I have been seeing people talk about the Windows 7 Beta being available to download so I went to see how hard it was to sign up. It turns out that it actually pretty easy so I decided I would give it a try under VirtualBox just to see if it would work. The following is a list of steps I...

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