It seems the default name of plain.rackshack.net is refused connection by some spam filters. So I plan to rename the server following the instructions in the Uber-Guide. There's already one website on the server. Any gotchas I should be watching for?

chnage hostname just do :

# pico /etc/hosts

change the line from plain.rackshack.net to sub.domain.com sub

# pico /etc/sysconfig/network

change the "plain.rackshack.net" part of the second line to "sub.domain.com" (should be same as /etc/hosts)

# hostname sub.domain.com

the last bit should be everything, open i new SSH window and you should now have user@root user at the command prompt

Chris

evet though I have changed what you have described above, I still have plain.rackshack.net at some point. when I receive a mail from plesk its all over...

you will have to close your ssh window and open a new window although it has worked for me.... type "hostname" from the command line (without the quotes) and the new name should be shown.

Chris

I just found out that the PTR record needs to be added by RS for mail.

no matter what i seem to do (and i've grepped all over this system) I cannot seem to remove the "" from the subject line of the notification emails i get after client creation...

yes, i have changed the hostname. all is well on the system excpet for that annoying fact.

mOjO

im having the same problem mojo

i fixed it!!!

CLICK HERE!!

i been up all night so that was a very lazy how-to... lemme know if u got questions.

When I first bought the new server I changed the the two network files and the misc-table (with phpMyAdmin) and also:

/var/qmail/control/me

After that, I havn't had any trouble with plesk.rackshack.net even though I receive

RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `plesk' does NOT match server name!?

In the error-log. Lucky for me, I don't use SSL

you would need to regenerate your cert with the CN set to mydomain.com

the original CN is of course plesk.rackshack.net or plain.rackshack.net in my case... and as i mentioned i dont have any major problems either excpet the annoyance of the New Client creation notification emails being wrong.

how do you drop the database "psa", im not sure of the command and i cant seem to get into phpmyadmin anyway apart from going from the control panel, and then you can only have that specific username (unless im missing something )

i will reply in the thread i linked to above about how to drop the psa database.

did you reply :-/

yeah.. got busy for a while.. but i finally did...

http://forum.rackshack.net/showthread.php?...&threadid=29135

Hi,

I don't think it's necessarily a good idea to drop the whole PSA database just to change 1 value.

I think the following is a better way. get yourself logged in via SSH, then do this:

1. mysql -u admin -p psa

##psa is the database##
##you will be prompted for a password, this will be your Plesk admin password##

2. whatever-your-password-is

##misc is the PSA table that holds the server name##
##at the mysql prompt enter the following##

3. update misc set val='whatever-you-want-to-call-your-server' where param='FullHostName';

##you will get a reply saying 1 record has been changed##

There is no need to dump the database and is only asking for trouble.

Good luck.
John

thanks John... as i said before i'm not much for sql so i was sure theres a better way... i only did it that way because i didnt know the name of the parameter i was searching for so i dumped the whole database so i could search through it in VI...

dump and pico worked fine for me

I'm sure it did...

But deleting and then reloading an entire database to change a single value just isn't necessary.

My hostname script has been updated to support plesk6 ..and it does change the db and the qmail settings as well.

http://forum.rackshack.net/showthread.php?...&threadid=20397