by admin | Jul 24, 2014 | cPanel/WHM
On checking the disk usage of your server, you might notice that /root/.cpanel/comet consumes considerable amount of disk space. This happens when high number of emails are in the mail queue manager which can occur when spamming is carried out in the server. Manually...
by admin | Jul 24, 2014 | cPanel/WHM
SSH to the server and issue the following commands to remove fantastico : # rm -rf /var/netenberg/ # rm -rf /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/fantastico/ # rm -rf /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/fantastico* # rm -rf /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/*/fantastico #...
by admin | Jul 24, 2014 | DNS, Plesk
When trying to restart named, you get an error stating that some parameter is not given correctly in a zone file. It would be a reverse PTR zone file with name something like this: x.x.x.in-addr.arpa. Open the zone file using vim , like : # vim...
by admin | Jul 24, 2014 | cPanel/WHM, MySQL
With the recent upgrade of WHM/cPanel, the users get the ability to upgrade their MySQL server to 5.6.x ( x > 6 ). However, when this upgrade is done, lot of server owners are seeing memory drainage issues. An idle MySQL server tends to consume around 50% of your...
by admin | Jul 21, 2014 | Servers
Just like the DDoS is hitting web-servers and DNS servers, it has started hitting the ntpd servers which are left open. The Network Time Protocol, or NTP, syncs time between machines on the network, and runs over port 123 UDP. It’s typically configured once by network...
