by admin | Aug 21, 2014 | cPanel/WHM
A weird situation is when you can see the databases, its tables and so on from phpmyadmin of the concerned cPanel account or even from the backend, but is actually found missing under the ‘Databases’ section. This issue occurs due to the lack of mapping of databases....
by admin | Aug 21, 2014 | cPanel/WHM
Brute force is an attack that involves using an automated system to guess the password to your web server or services. cPHulk provides protection against brute force attacks. Some useful commands to deal with cPHulk Brute Force Protection from the back-end : First get...
by admin | Aug 21, 2014 | cPanel/WHM, Mail service
The eximstats database might tend to grow in size if there is high amount of mailing from your server. Check if the following value from WHM is set to a higher interval : Home »Server Configuration »Tweak Settings >> “The interval, in days, to retain Exim...
by admin | Aug 21, 2014 | DNS
When you have a server without any control panel, it becomes a pain in the arse to manage the services, especially the DNS service. You have got the tedious job of installing bind, altering the configuration file, manually creating the zone files and so on. Here are...
by admin | Aug 20, 2014 | Servers
Once your new server is provisioned , install Perl in it which stands as the base for all further installations. You can use the following command to install Perl : # yum install perl -y When this is complete, download the script to install Virtualmin : # wget...
by admin | Aug 15, 2014 | General, OpenSource, Servers
When trying to delete the files of a folder ( using # rm ) with lots of contents in it , you might get this error : /bin/rm : Argument list too long The traditional # rm command will not be able to delete too many files in a directory. To get around this, use the...
by admin | Aug 14, 2014 | MySQL
A common issue when MySQL versions are upgraded is the presence of depreciated commands in /etc/my.cnf that would prevent MySQL from restarting. Other than the presence of depreciated ones, incomplete commands too can cause the issues. When MySQL is upgraded to 5.5...
by admin | Aug 10, 2014 | Mail service, Plesk
In order to clear the Qmail queue, initiate the following commands from shell : # service qmail stop # find /var/qmail/queue/mess -type f -exec rm {} \; # find /var/qmail/queue/info -type f -exec rm {} \; # find /var/qmail/queue/local -type f -exec rm {} \; # find...
by admin | Aug 8, 2014 | cPanel/WHM
Yes, you have got the WHM option of migrating the accounts. However, most chances are for it to fail. Also, you cannot keep your eyes on the screen and watch the progress. What if your local internet connection breaks in between this ? It ends up in a mess and more...
by admin | Aug 8, 2014 | MySQL
There are ton’s of causes for which MySQL might not start, ranging from disk space full ( highlighted here ) to databases getting corrupt. First place where you have to check for a clue is the .err log – ( /var/lib/mysql/hostname.err ) If the err corresponds to...
