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What do you do if you have to take your Drupal site into maintenance mode from the command line? Well you can do this easily if you have drush set up on your server. With drush you can do quite a lot powerful drupal administration tasks right from the command line.
In Drupal 6
The following drush command will take your Drupal site offline
drush vset site_offline 1
The following drush command will take your Drupal site back online
drush vdel site_offline
In Drupal 7
I am assuming that you have root access on the server without which the following instructions won't work.
First you have to cd to the directory corresponding to your mailing list. All mailing list settings will be kept at
/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/lists/
Zyxware is conducting a Drupal training session on 15th of February 2014 as part of FOSSMeet 2014. FOFSSMeet is the premier annual Free Software event in Kerala hosted by National Institute of Technology Calicut (Kozhikode). The session will be held at CSED Seminar Hall.
We are happy to announce that we will be conducting a Drupal bugathon at our office at Sasthamangalam, Trivandrum on the 1st of February 2014. If you are a Drupal developer and you would like to get some guidance on how to contribute to Drupal you are welcome to join us. Bring your own laptops for the session.
Our Sasthamangalam office address is
SMRA 78, SRKM Hospital Road,
Sasthamangalam P. O.,
Trivandrum, Kerala - 695010
There are times when we sit back and look at the road travelled so far. With a sense of humility and gratitude to those who have made this possible. The Zyxware story would not have been possible without the contributions of its people, its well wisher community, especially the Free Software community in Kerala, our clientele, our bankers, families of people who have worked with us and many more. We take a moment to acknowledge and thank each of them as we set our eyes on bigger goals and gather the conviction to move forward.
Zyxware conducted a session on "Introduction to Free Software" at College of Engineering, Trivandrum on 2014-01-18. The session was taken as part of an Android application development workshop organized by IEEE and Innovation Club at CET. The session was conducted by Mr. Anoop John, CTO of Zyxware Technologies.
The session covered
Zyxware conducted a 3 day workshop on Drupal at IIT Madras as part of the recently concluded technical festival Shaastra 2014. The workshop was conducted from Jan 4 - Jan 6 by Mr. Anoop John, CTO of Zyxware Technologies.
One of the challenges with working with dynamic websites is that you have to keep fighting malicious users who regularly sap your server capacity with rogue crawling of your site. To do this you would have to monitor and analyze the traffic patterns on the server regularly. You would definitely want to do this when you have load spikes on the server and you wish to find out the IP addresses, user agents and the specific URLs which resulted in these spikes.
As part of the ongoing process of migrating computers in Kerala Legislative Assembly to Free Software, we got the opportunity to offer GNU/Linux training to the first set of 120 employees of Kerala Niyamasabha. Zyxware Technologies conducted trainings for 8 batches of staff of Assembly. Each batch had a session of 2 hours each. This was spread over 8 days between November 26, 2013 to December 6, 2013.
We are happy to announce that Zyxware is now a Featured Service Provider on Drupal.org, a select club of Drupal providers with only another 4 members from India. This is a recognition of our contributions to Drupal over these years. We thank all our employees who have helped make this possible through their sustained contributions and members of the Drupal community who have guided,mentored and helped us as we grew in the Drupal space.