George Hubka

If you think some wierd traffic is coming to your server, you can use netstat and ps to find evil programs, ports, and ips. Besides killing processes with the usual kill command you might try adding some rule to iptables while you investigate
netstat -lntpe
ps -auxfw
Drops a port (in this example 3131)
iptables -A INPUT -p […]

show the count of messages in queue
exim -bpc
list the messages in queue
exim -bp
These can selectively delete messages from the queue
if the message is frozen
exim -bpru|grep frozen|awk {’print $3′}|xargs exim -Mrm
if the message is
exim -bpru|grep ‘‘|awk {’print $3′}|xargs exim -Mrm
if all
exim -bpru|awk {’print $3′}|xargs exim -Mrm

Ever move to a new mssql server database and orphan the users…. You get all kinds of nasty errors… here is some things to fix those mssql accounts. This will not work with Windows accounts.
You can find them with this SP
sp_change_users_login ‘report’
and you can fix them with this SP
sp_change_users_login ‘update_one’, ‘username’, […]

Ever have a file that is locked by the OS and you absolutely cannot delete it….. Well here is a way, when you don’t have DOS as an option.
Install the Windows Recovery Console After Windows is Already Installed on the Computer
1. Click Start, click Run, and then type CD-ROM drive letter:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons in the […]

Besides adding the dword of 1 to a new local machine, software, microsoft, msdtc, TurnOffRpcSecurity, you need to change AllowOnlySecureRpcCalls to be set to Zero.