ProviderTalk RESOURCES

Background information about this project
It has always been my desire to provide an area of the ProviderTalk.com website for people to contribute useful information and scripts for the Verio environment.  If a few individuals collectively set aside a very small amount of time to make contributions, the ProviderTalk site will become a very useful resource for us all.

Searchable database for ProviderTalk lists

http://search.providertalk.com

This searchable archive is a result of Net-Flow Corporation, customizing their "NOW Productivity Suite" to provide us with more than just a simple archive. Even though this is only our "Version 1" release, we already have the following functionality built in:

  • member only searching (archives will not be indexed by search engines)
  • quick search and advanced search functionality
  • ability to 'bookmark' your favorite posts for easy access later
  • 'Add A Comment' functionality so that any member can add helpful comments to archived posts
  • 'top viewed' message counter so that you can see active posts easily

We hope to add much more functionality to ProviderTalk, and your comments will help to ensure that we focus on features that are meaningful. If you have some helpful advice, constructive criticism, or, if you want to offer your services to further the ProviderTalk cause, please let us know.

iManagerPro add-on script VPS2
iManagerPro add-on script VPS1

iManagerPro is a series of Add-On scripts for Verio's iManager program. There are two different versions of iManagerPro available, one for the new VPSv2 FreeBSD servers and the other for the older FreeBSD VPSv1 servers. Eventually, there will be only one version of iManagerPro that will work on all VPS platforms (including Solaris).

iManagerPro will allow your client to add/modify/delete their own email accounts. As the server admin, you will define how many pop accounts and mail forwards that the client will be able to create. The client will only have update privileges for their domain, they will not have visibility to anyone else's email.

Additional features include: mail disk quotas, vacation autoreply, and much more!

**For use on VPSv2 FreeBSD servers w/iManager 2.12.4! Please read the VPSv2 information page. **For use on VPSv1 FreeBSD servers w/iManager 2.05b! Please read the VPSv1 information page.

bulkload

Here is a viaVerio Perl script for doing "bulk" user creations on the VPS and MPS platforms (works for both FreeBSD and Solaris). You don't have to add users one at a time through vadduser or iManager. You can add them hundreds at a time through this simple script.

checkquota

"checkquota" will allow you to quickly see any user on the server that is approaching their quota. Run checkquota -h to view what options are available.

    --all    show all users
    --help   show help
    --over   show only users over quota (this is the default)
    --threshold change the threshold percentage (default is 80)
    --user='user1,user2,user3..userN'       ## show only these user(s) 
    --quota=N  group --user together and use this value as the max MB allowed                           

You could use this script in a cronjob that would email you the results every X hours.

maxlogins

Here is a viaVerio Perl script written by teamits.com that tracks repeated bad ssh login attempts and adds offending IP addresses to /etc/hosts.allow to block further access after a specified number of attempts. Documentation is at the end of the program code

check_catchalls

Here is a viaVerio Perl script written by teamits.com that compares local-host-names to the Sendmail virtmap table and alerts the user of any domains that do not have a "catchall" alias defined. Unhandled usernames are otherwise matched to system users. A catchall typically rejects mail for unknown users or handles it appropriately. Useful before installing CPX.

 

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