about 8 months ago - No comments
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
about 9 months ago - No comments
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
about 9 months ago - 7 comments
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
about 9 months ago - 8 comments
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. Run the folllowing command on root : root@lolwut
about 10 months ago - 3 comments
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
about 10 months ago - No comments
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
about 10 months ago - 3 comments
Upgrading MySQL versions is a quick and easy process, not much work involved. Always be sure to make a backup before you start though, just in case the upgrade fails or some other unforeseen issue arises. cp -Rpf /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql.BAK Login to WHM –> Tweak Settings –> MySQL -> 5.0 and Save settings /scripts/mysqlup –force
about 10 months ago - 3 comments
Allowing the root user to login directly is a major security issue, we’ll show you how to disable it so you can still login as root but just not directly, reducing the security issue. This will force a hacker to have to guess 2 seperate passwords to gain root access. (you do have 2 seperate
about 10 months ago - 1 comment
I’m short on time, but here’s a nice little tutorial on screen in SSH courtesy of Aperiodic.net. Getting in start a new screen session: screen .. with session name: screen -S <name> attach to a running session: screen -r .. to session with name: screen -r <name> the “ultimate attach”: screen -dRR (Attaches to a
about 10 months ago - No comments
Last night I came across a ticket where a customers time kept resetting on their dedicated server. Typically I would fix the time by using the date command because most of issues I came across the servers were only minutes off. After reading through the clients ticket history I realized that the timezone and minutes
