cPanel 11.25.0 Stable released

Published on February 18, 2010 in cPanel. 0 Comments

Taken from cPanel’s news bulletin.

As you know, 11.25 has added a host of new features and functionality to cPanel & WHM. Tonight, 11.25 makes it to our STABLE builds. We will have additional technical staff on hand for the next few days to ensure the transition goes as smoothly as possible.

As always, should you need anything, the entire cPanel staff is here to help!

There have been some enhancements to the methods that cPanel uses to process log files that may result in undesired behavior with some system configurations.

Graceful Restarts:

If you are experiencing a high volume of graceful restarts in Apache due to log file rotation you may want to enable the Piped Log feature as follows:

* You must have root access to enable this feature.

* You must be running Apache 2.0 or later to enable this feature (not supported for Apache 1.x)

* Only available on 11.25.0 and later.

1. Login to WHM

2. Click /Service Configuration/

3. Click /Apache Configuration/

4. Click /Piped Log Configuration/

5. Check the box labeled /Enable piped Apache logs/

6. Click the Save button

This will cause your Apache configuration file to be rebuilt and Apache to be restarted.

More complete information about Piped Log can be viewed here:

http://forums.cpanel.net/f5/cpanel-11-25-log-processing-145417.html

An additional requirement for our enhanced log file processing is a larger disk space requirement inside of the /var partition. Upon upgrading to 11.25.0 if cPanel detects that your /var partition is too small it will disable bandwidth stats processing until the space requirement is remedied. If there is inadequate space in /var, notification is set to the level 1 notification targets as specified in WHM’s Contact Manager.

To re-enable:

1. Symlink /var/cpanel/bandwidth to a partition with sufficient space

2. Remove the file /etc/rrdtooldisable

3. Re-run upcp

Customers who need assistance with the update may contact cPanel support for assistance via

https://tickets.cpanel.net/submit/index.cgi?step=2&reqtype=tickets&product=cpwhm

/var/log/omgitsanupdate

Published on February 8, 2010 in TLN.com. 0 Comments

No…that’s not really a log file…yes I did update the site. As you may notice there is now a /var/ link in the navigation, which lists files and folders in this directory along with some descriptions. More files and explanations will come with future updates :)

Long hiatus…

Published on January 26, 2010 in TLN.com. 0 Comments

I apologize to all of my readers, as I’ve realized that I slacked off quite a bit on keeping this blog updated…well that’s going to change. As you can see the ugly dark design is gone, and has been replaced with a cleaner design. I’m also in the process of updating the ‘About’ and ‘cPanel Introduction’ pages, both of which need work especially the cPanel page, since it’s a complete mess and a pain to navigate. Be sure to check back for these changes in the next few days!

Backup/Restore a cPanel Account

Published on December 29, 2009 in cPanel. 1 Comment

Previous Post: WHM Scripts

Now we’re going to start looking into some of those SSH commands.  Today we’ll be going over the commands pkgacct and restorepkg.

Backing up and restoring cPanel account’s is, in my opinion, faster by using the command line as you don’t have to wait for a sometimes sluggish web interface to load.

Let’s get started then, shall we? Continue reading ‘Backup/Restore a cPanel Account’

WHM Scripts

Published on December 20, 2009 in cPanel. 0 Comments

Did you know that if you have cPanel/WHM on your server, you also have a bunch of serverside commands that you can use?  These are good for advanced users, or the people who prefer to manage their servers in a hurry via the command line rather than waiting for a web interface to load.

Nearly everything that you can do in the WHM backend can be performed via command line.  These scripts are located in your server’s /scripts/ directory.  Only use scripts that have been verified by cPanel, or that you know yourself are safe as an unsafe script may damage your server.

Long list of scripts after the break… Continue reading ‘WHM Scripts’

Installing RKHunter

Published on December 11, 2009 in Security. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Be honest, how much have you considered server security in the past?  In this day and age, it’s not something that should be taken lightly.  Today I’ll be teaching you how to install RKHunter.  RKHunter (ie:  Rootkit Hunter) is a nifty little script that runs via cron daily that checks your server for the most obvious rootkits that might have been placed there by somebody with some kind of malicious intent.

Continue reading ‘Installing RKHunter’

Session.save_path error

Published on December 1, 2009 in Linux, Php.ini, SSH and Tutorial. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

So…I came across this error on a clients site which he was receiving when trying to install a 3rd party script.

The session.save_path setting in your php configuration file (php.ini) is not set or is set to a folder which did not exist. You might need to set the save_path setting in php.ini or verify that the folder sets in save_path exist.

It’s a pretty simple fix in the servers php.ini. Continue reading ‘Session.save_path error’

Install fantastico on cPanel

Published on November 29, 2009 in Linux, SSH, Tutorial and cPanel. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

A fantastico installation is pretty straight forward. First thing you need to do is obtain a Fantastico license from Netenburg.

One of the most common issues when installing fantastico is a buggy wget install on the server, so a working wget version will need to be installed. Another common issue is cPanels internal php may break, but we will discuss the fix to that later on. Continue reading ‘Install fantastico on cPanel’

Exim Error: Ratelimit database not available

Published on November 18, 2009 in Linux, Mail Issues, SSH, Tutorial and cPanel. 2 Comments Tags: , , , .

2009-07-20 21:58:07 Failed to get write lock for /var/spool/exim/db/ratelimit.lockfile: timed out
2008-07-20 21:58:07 H=[xx.xx.xx.xx] temporarily rejected connection in “connect” ACL: ratelimit database not available

To fix such an error , the exim cache database on the server side needs to be clear off to stop this message. Continue reading ‘Exim Error: Ratelimit database not available’

Creating an extracting tar files

Published on November 7, 2009 in Linux, SSH and Tutorial. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

The most common compressed archive file format in Linux is the tar.gz format. Tar file is an archive file format. Tar.gz is a compressed tar file.

How to create a compressed tar.gz file from a folder or file in Linux?

In order to create a compressed tar.gz archive from a folder/file we need to run the following tar command:

tar -czf new-tar-file-name.tar.gz file-or-folder-to-archive

Here is the command explanation:

  • tar – the tar command.
  • c – create new archive.
  • z – compress the archive using gzip.
  • f – use archive file.
  • new-tar-file-name.tar.gz – the name of the tar.gz to create.
  • file-or-folder-to-archive – the name of the folder we want to archive.

Continue reading ‘Creating an extracting tar files’