by Joel | 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 Joel | 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 Joel | 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 Joel | 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 Joel | 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...