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Archive for February, 2010
A few OpenVZ commands
Feb 28th
Below are the commonly used OpenVZ commands, which are run from the main node.
vzlist -a
Shows list of all the VPS’s hosted on the Node.
vzctl start VEID
To start the VPS
vzctl stop VEID
To stop (Shut Down) the VPS
vzctl status VEID
To view the status of the particular VPS
vzctl stop VEID –fast
To stop the VPS quickly and forcefully
vzctl enter VEID
To enter in a particular VPS
vzctl set VEID –hostname vps.domain.com –save
To set the Hostname of a VPS
vzctl set VEID –ipadd 1.2.3.4 –save
To add a new IP to the hosting VPS
vzctl set VEID –ipdel 1.2.3.4 –save
To delete the IP from VPS
vzctl set VEID –userpasswd root:new_password –save
To reset root password of a VPS
vzctl set VEID –nameserver 1.2.3.4 –save
To add the nameserver IP’s to the VPS
vzctl exec VEID command
To run any command on a VPS from Node
vzyum VEID install package_name
To install any package/Software on a VPS from Node
**VEID refers to the ID of the Particular VPS**
cPanel 11.25.0 Stable released
Feb 18th
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
Feb 8th
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 