by Joel | 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 Joel | 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 Joel | 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...
by Joel | Jul 20, 2014 | Apache, General
There are situations in which the error_log associated with a domain fills up a good part of the disk space consumed. Lets find what are they logging ! Is it something like, [Date America/New_York] PHP Strict Standards: Non-static method JDispatcher::getInstance()...
by Joel | Jul 16, 2014 | cPanel/WHM, SSH
When trying to change the shell access for a user from WHM, do you face the following issue ? – Even when trying to change the setting via back-end, you might face the issue : # chsh -s /bin/bash xChanging shell for xsetpwnam: File existsShell *NOT*...
