about 7 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 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 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 9 months ago - 1 comment
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
about 9 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 9 months ago - No comments
Very simple install, only 4 commands via SSH and takes about 20 minutes for the install to complete. wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/perl588installer.tar.gz tar -xvzf perl588installer.tar.gz cd perl588installer ./install //
about 9 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 9 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
