When you try to move an account from one CPanel server to another through SSH you may get an error like: “Packaging the account… … Timeout during ssh session … Retrying….” besides the fact that SSH seems to be working on the remote host. In such cases you should login through SSH on the target […]
Read More →Archive for October, 2009
Upgrade ClamAV on CPanel Servers
It is a common question for CPanel administrators why Cpanel does not keep ClamAV up to date. I don’t have the answer but i can demonstrate a simple workaround to upgrade clamav yourself with as little work as possible. You can identify if you use an old ClamAV version if you execute the command “freshclam” […]
Read More →Linux on VMware Time Sync
It is a common problem on virtual machines to loose time synchronization with the hardware clock. This can lead to serious problems regarding services operations as well as log consolidation. VMware’ s knowledge base has lot of information regarding the issue. We choose to implement NTP time synchronization on our Datacenter, thus the only option […]
Read More →Roundcube WebMail on CPanel Servers
Roundcube webmail is a very promising Open Source webmail client. With CPanel 11 installing RoundCube is quite easy and with no file editing of CPanel files. To install roundcube you should first download RoundCube Webmail from http://roundcube.net/ . Unzip the software somewhere and upload all files and folders (maybe with WinSCP) to your server in […]
Read More →Exim Ignore MX Record
There are some cases where you want to ignore the configured MX record in order to deliver e-mails for a domain and instead deliver them to a preconfigured server. A very common situation where you want to do this is when you provide advanced anti virus and anti spam solutions to your clients. In those […]
Read More →Samba PDC and Kolab
Our project is to replace in our corporate all MS Windows servers. The new environment should be compatible with simple users habits and the transition from Microsoft servers to Linux servers must be completely transparent to the end user. The first step towards this is to provide a Windows Domain functionality with Samba Server v3. […]
Read More →MySQL Usage Limit
It usually happens on a server to have high load for no apparent reason. My experience have shown that most of the times this high load is due to badly written SQL queries which cause MySQL to use all available resources for lots of time. This also causes an an excessive number of connections as […]
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