MikeJ

POP before SMTP (or SMTP Authentication... we support both) is only required if you attempting to send email through the server from a remote host (they take affect when you connect to the SMTP port from a remote host). Scripts running on the server are allowed to send email as you without authenticating first. And if your script is calling sendmail (and not creating a direct SMTP connection) as you state, you won't even be affected by SMTP authentication as you aren't using SMTP yet. If you believe their's a problem with your environment, feel free to submit a help desk ticket and someone will take a look at it. If you want to post or PM me the ID of the one you had open, I'll take a look at it to see why support wasn't able to give you a satisfactory response. If you are having problems with your script, why not describe the problem here and someone might be able to help you out?

Since you're on a dedicated server, I assume you have access to your WHM. You will probably be much better off just logging into your WHM as root, go to Tweak Settings, then find the option Delete each domain's access logs after stats run under Stats and Logs and check it. Make sure to hit the save button at the bottom of the page after you do that. This should then delete your logs every time the stats run (which should be every night unless you have a high load on your server at night). Then you shouldn't have to worry about scripting anything, nor take a chance of deleting the logs before stats have been run against them. Let me know if that doesn't resolve your problem, and welcome to the forums.

*cough* install linux *cough* (hey.... Raul dropped the ball, figured I'd pick it back up ) Seriously though, glad to hear you got it working.

Drop the -C. That's for changing directories (and why you have an empty archive). The correct syntax (complete with compression as Ayman suggested) would be: tar cvfz archive.tar.gz directoryName ...with the assumption that directoryName is a subdirectory of the one you are sitting in.

Sorry it took me so long to respond to this. I've haven't been around much recently. You have the right concept. |/home/mbcomp/public_html/display/index.php for example is the correct filter for public_html/display/index.php location. I also tried a copy of your test script and had no problem. Try making sure your php script is set to mode 755 (in otherwords, readable and executable by everyone). This can be done in your cPanel file manager by selecting the file, selecting Change Permissions, checking the boxes for read and execute for Group and World / read, write and execute for User, and then hitting save. If that still doesn't work, your hosting provider (you're not hosted at TCH) may have some kind of block on certain types of scripts from sending mail (although probably not likely since it works when you hit the file directly via your browser). You may have to contact your hosts support to see if they'll help you troubleshoot at that point.

This might be a better link to use. Full list of mirrors so you can find a location close to you. Just go to the same directory: i386/9.2/iso/ Edit: Or better yet, just go here for direct links. Novell's site still lists this version as an Eval. What that exactly means functionally I don't know as I haven't used SuSE since before it was owned by Novell.

Yea, and that is a good point (I had forgotten about their free viewer), but it does have a limitation: Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP If you're not running windows, you're still out of luck.

PDF's work very well for structured documents, primarily ones meant for offline viewing and/or printing. I would never imagine using PDF content as website content except for the case of providing formatted reports for possible printing/saving. Word documents require 1) an expensive piece of software (Word), and 2) an operating system that Word runs on, and even then, you aren't guaranteed maintaining the same exact format (different versions of Word, different fonts, etc...). PDF's should maintain the exact same format no matter what platform you view it on (with some minor exceptions). Plain text and HTML work great (and much better) for online viewing... but aren't as good when you need a printed/formatted output. So for me, PDF is excellent at very specific purposes. The primary one being making formatted documents available to anyone.

Being alert to your surroundings is always good advice. BUT, this line about forwarding is what is used by all "hoax's" to help it propogate around the world. see the following URL http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_c..._cell_phone.htm <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's a very handy URL. Please forward to all your friends and family, acquaintances too.

I updated your help desk ticket. Your rewrite rules should work again now.

Well, I can say this... I have to say no to the following two: * You email your girlfriend everyday even though it's a local call * You know 100s of URLs by heart but can't remember your wife's birthday But that probably has something to do with the fact I can say yes to just about every other entry on that list. (hint: I have no girlfriend/wife).

Correct. MX records define the mail exchangers for a domain. Simply put, it defines the servers that receive email for a domain.

Did you ever think it would? The internet is still quite young relatively speaking. These problems will be overcome by better technology, but new problems will continue to appear. It's one of the characteristics of humanity. There will always be people who will try to abuse others for their own greed (whether for wealth, power, fame, convenience or other). I just comfort myself in the fact that this is a small fragment of humanity, and that most people in general are inherently good. However, the temptations of wealth can make many people stray from their core values. People like this Sam then try to justify it through denial that it really hurts anyone, and try to twist people into thinking what they are doing is "invited". But the truth is companies are spending thousands (if not millions collectively) to combat their greed influenced schemes (for the sake of the end users applications as well as the performance of their systems and networks), and users abandon their blogs because they get flooded with junk... especially junk they don't want their family to see (Hi mom, click here for some free I AM A SPAMMER!). But yes... this type of "abuse" will probably always exist in some form, and we will continue to build tools to fight it.

The site www.webpageanalyzer.com (same as Lisa mentioned above) will give you a very rough estimate of how long your page should take to load at different speeds based on your page size and number of objects. Just keep in mind Dick's solution above will show you how long the page took to generate, not how long it took to download and render in your browser.

A lot of that has to do with size. Yahoo and Google are a little too big for AOL to outright blacklist. TCH is tiny in comparison.

Make sure for the username on login, you are using the format: username@******

Geeklog (http://www.geeklog.net/) is weblogging software. It really had nothing to do with processing your mail in a PHP script other than the user in this case was using a PHP written filter to allow posting to his weblog (which was geeklog) via email. Section31, don't know the answer to your question off-hand. I don't write PHP on a regular basis (yet anyway ).

If you ever got locked out of your account, a helpdesk ticket, and proof of who you are (they'll cover that in response to your ticket) will get you access to it again. There isn't a way to provide more than one account with access to cPanel, though, unless you are a reseller (in which case you can access the cPanel accounts you control via the account password or the reseller password).

I know how to read. Even though you said "similar", others have been asking about opening ports and confuse the two, and yours was not clear. I'm happy to hear that you got it taken care of.

Just to clarify as what you are asking sounds more like you want to open a listening port... We do not allow user run programs to open up listening ports (ports allowing incoming connections) on the shared servers (and you'll find they are blocked). For that matter, we don't allow persistent user run programs (daemons). We also block certain outgoing ports for security reasons (i.e., if you want to try to open a connection to some non-standard port on a remote server, you'll likely be blocked). If you have a legitimate reason to require access to a non-standard remote port, that's when you can submit a help desk ticket and request that port to be allowed, and state the reason why. I'm not sure which category you fall into, but felt I would clarify for anyone reading this thread.

Running a mail server from a residential or (particularly a) dynamic address is generally just a bad idea (without at least a non-blocked outgoing gateway). You will likely find that your address is already blacklisted since it's residential, just because of that fact alone. Even if your address is static, it may still show up in blacklists as dynamic since it's still residential (and generally not trusted). You can try running your IP address through senderbase to test it: http://www.senderbase.org

You won't be able to open any listening sockets using a shared webhosting account at TCH (or most any shared webhosting provider).

There have been numerous vulnerabilities discovered in vBulletin forum software lately. If you haven't upgraded lately, or if you have but not all the way to 3.0.6, it is highly recommended you do so. http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=127027 vBulletin is a popular forum package, but is not supplied by TotalChoice Hosting.

Make sure you upgrade your vBulletin again as another security vulnerability was discovered and patched: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=127027

If this is a one time backup you need, you can request TCH does the dump for you via the help desk. If you need to do this on a regular basis, you can look at setting up a cron job to do a database dump on a regular basis.