Tag : mailserver

Automated SMTP Server Check

Posted November 4, 2014 by Frank Cox & filed under CentOS Comments: 15

Tags: cron job, mailserver

I would like to set up a cron job to automatically check whether my mailserver and webserver are up, and tell me if theyre not.This script tells me if my webserver is up:#!/bin/bash wget -q –tries –timeout–spider http://melvilletheatre.com if..

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Bind (named) Compromised?

Posted February 8, 2014 by James Pifer & filed under CentOS Comments: 3

Tags: mailserver

Im having problems where my upstream bandwidth is being saturated. Ive narrowed it down to a DNS issue of some type. If I stop the named service then my bandwidth drops to normal according to my untangle firewall.Im running bind-9.3.6-20.P1.el5_8.6..

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