George Hubka

By disabling recursive lookups on your server, you will help in the never ending battle against SPAM…
1. SSH Into your Server
2. Do a nano -w /etc/named.conf
3. Search for // query-source address * port 53;
4. Type Recursion no;
5. Save and Restart Bind

This is a long…long…long list of comands for emacs.Emacs Commands List
C = Control
M = Meta = Alt|Esc
Basics
C-x C-f “find” file i.e. open/create a file in buffer
C-x C-s save the file
C-x C-w write the text to an alternate name
C-x C-v find alternate file
C-x i insert file at cursor position
C-x b create/switch buffers
C-x C-b show buffer list
C-x […]

there is a great utility that will help to monitor and control processes on a linux box called monload2.  It can be found at http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~andre/extern/monload2.html 
from the site…
The monitor program - how it works
We first address the high load mad process problem, that was easy, from time to time we run the ps command to check […]

while WHM gives you a fun menu item to change the hostname, be warned, it does not always work right…  After putting in your new host name you might geta message about adding a A record and once you hit ok you might then get a BAD LICENSE FILE or similar massage….  do not fear, […]

Here are a few commands strung together to find all the files that are more than 1000000c in size.
What is 1000000c? That would be character (unbuffered) special
find /var -size +1000000c -exec ls -l {} \;
 a variation on this is to find large files that have been accessed in the last day
find /var -type f -size +2048b -mtime […]

If you have a database with thousands of tables, mysql can be a pain when changing to use the database.  Try starting it up with the mysql -A option instead.

in case you ever want to manually kick off a backup immediately instead of letting the cron do it for you, just type in /scripts/cpbackup to start a backup from a command line

AT&T once had a server of mine incorrectly listed in their spam filter.  It took hours to find, but finally I found an address to get removed from the list.  In case you ever need it here it is
abuse_rbl@att.net