Install fantastico on cPanel

Posted by Clayton | Posted in Linux, SSH, Tutorial | Posted on 11-29-2009

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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.

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Exim Error: Ratelimit database not available

Posted by Clayton | Posted in Linux, Mail Issues, SSH, Tutorial | Posted on 11-18-2009

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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.

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Creating an extracting tar files

Posted by Clayton | Posted in Linux, SSH, Tutorial | Posted on 11-07-2009

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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.

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cPanel Icon Missing From WHM List Accounts

Posted by Clayton | Posted in Tutorial | Posted on 11-03-2009

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I came across an issue for the first time where the cPanel icon was missing in the list accounts section. After digging around WHM, I found where the function was disabled.

  • Log into WHM
  • Select “Tweak Settings”
  • Uncheck the box next to “Disable login with root or reseller password into the users’ cPanel interface. Also disable switch account dropdown in themes with switch account feature”
  • Click save

After hitting save, you can go back to the list account section and the cPanel icon will be back.

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pty, ptyp, and tty errors

Posted by Clayton | Posted in Linux, SSH, Tutorial | Posted on 11-02-2009

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So I came across this error for the first time today when trying to SSH directly into a clients VPS.

login as: root
root@server’s password:
Server refused to allocate pty
stdin: is not a tty

After a quick google search I came across the fix.

[root@node /]# vzlist -a
VEID      NPROC STATUS  IP_ADDR         HOSTNAME
1337         78 running 69.10.59.80     grumpy.thelinuxnoob.com
[root@node /]# vzctl exec 1337 /sbin/MAKEDEV ptyp
[root@node /]# vzctl exec 1337 /sbin/MAKEDEV tty
[root@node /]# vzctl exec 1337 /sbin/MAKEDEV pty

The issue should now be resolved and you can SSH into the VPS.

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