Plesk and qmail

I spent several hours this evening tying down a problem with the qmail server on one of our machines. Eventually, I found that 77000 messages had been sent from an auto-emailer function triggered by a malformed piece of MySQL on another server.

However, it has allowed me to find a use a couple of command line functions that I’ve not really used all that much before

/etc/init.d/qmail stop | start | restart

/var/qmail/bin/qmail=qstat

qmHandle -l

qmHandle -h’Subject: blah’

qmHandle is a helpful command line tool that allows you to manipulate the qmail queue (remembering that you need to edit the perl script once downloaded to set the user config)

# Set this to your qmail queue directory (be sure to include the final slash!)
my ($queue) = ‘/var/qmail/queue/’;
my ($bigtodo) = (-d “${queue}todo/0″) ? 0 : 1; # 1 means no big-todo

# While this is if you have a Debian GNU/Linux with its qmail package
my ($stopqmail) = ‘/etc/init.d/qmail stop’;
my ($startqmail) = ‘/etc/init.d/qmail start’;

# Enter here the system command which returns qmail PID.
my ($pidcmd) = ‘pidof qmail-send’;

NautilusSVN

This is an absolute dream... like many who use SVN and have used Windows in the past, TortoiseSVN was it. There wasn't anything like it for Ubuntu... or at least that's what I thought until I took a look around and finally found: NautilusSVN on GoogleCode.

It's not as feature-rich as TortoiseSVN, but it does what it needs to do and has icon overlays which prettily tell you when files are out of sync with the repro.

Thanks guys!