by benny | Oct 16, 2015 | bandwidth, cPanel, whm
WHM now stores all of its users’ bandwidth information in sqlite files, rather than in flat text files. These directions will allow you to set a users’ bandwidth to 0. Step 1: Enter the bandwidth data folder, and make a backup of the sqlite database:...
by benny | Feb 20, 2015 | command-line, whm
I encountered this error installing Solr on a cPanel server using PECL, and thought I would post the solution, since I didn’t find it anywhere else. Whether installing through WHM or on the command line I saw this error: checking for cURL support… yes,...
by benny | Feb 6, 2015 | command-line, Posted
Whether it’s because your /tmp partition is too small, or because you are trying to gain more speed in some way, switching the MySQL location for all of its temporary files can help you in a few ways. The directions below will allow you to do so, without causing...
by benny | Jan 30, 2015 | CloudLinux, command-line
CloudLinux servers are built to be far more secure than traditional CentOS servers, especially with the addition of CageFS. However, sometimes you might want to allow your users access to some of the commands that are disabled by default. In our example we needed to...
by benny | Jan 28, 2015 | command-line, cPanel
Yesterday Qualys announced a vulnerability in all versions of the GNU C library (glibc). The actual vulnerability involves a buffer overflow during DNS hostname resolution. Disclosure of this vulnerability was timed to coordinate with the release of patches by the...
by benny | Jan 16, 2015 | cPanel, whm
If you attempt to enable IPv6 in your Dovecot configuration through WHM, you may see that it fails to start with this error: Log Messages: Jan 14 18:12:04 host dovecot: Fatal: listen: Invalid port in address : Jan 14 18:11:13 host dovecot: Fatal: listen: Invalid port...
by benny | Jan 7, 2015 | CloudLinux, command-line, Posted, whm
In WHM version 11.44, cPanel added a notification for upgrading ones OS to CloudLinux, to help secure webhosting environments. This isn’t ideal for all situations, but there isn’t an obvious way to disable it. Look no further! You can easily disable this...
by benny | Jan 5, 2015 | backups, command-line, cPanel
As a cPanel administrator, we sometimes need to get cPanel to do a little extra work for us. Especially if we’re running applications that cPanel isn’t necessarily aware of, or managing. Today we’ll talk about getting cPanel to add extra files to...
by benny | Jan 2, 2015 | command-line, cPanel, MariaDB, Posted
You can do this with relative ease, using cPanel and CloudLinux’s internal scripts. Step one, set the version of MySQL you want installed using cPanel’s RPM version script. In our example we’re installing MySQL 5.5. /scripts/update_local_rpm_versions...
by benny | Jan 1, 2015 | cPanel, exim
If you are having trouble with your user user’s mail filters not being applied correctly, you may see an error that looks a fair amount like this in /var/log/exim_mainlog at delivery time: 2014-12-10 15:45:34 1W1ixR-0005w9-JJ == user@domain.com...
