Archive for 'cPanel Guidelines'
Easyapache failing on CentOS server
Posted on 20. Jul, 2008 by wiredgorilla.
Tweet Had an issue with one on our CentOS cPanel servers running 64 bit and cPanels easyapache upgrade. The folks at cPanel helped out with their usual professional response
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How to find MAC address in CentOS
Posted on 19. Jul, 2008 by wiredgorilla.
TweetOpen SSH and type the following and press Enter: /sbin/ifconfig | grep -i hwaddr The sequence of hexadecimal digits that appears to the right of eth0 HWAddr (e.g. 08:00:27:ED:DA:8b) is your network card’s MAC Address
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cPanel – Manually back up and transfer an account via SSH
Posted on 22. Jun, 2008 by wiredgorilla.
TweetSometime accounts are to big to transfer via the WHM transfer feature. Below you can find some steps to do so manually Log into your server and create a cPanel backup for the account /scripts/pkgacct <username> <location> backup <username> refers to the username you want to backup. <location> is the path to where the backup [...]
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Problems with CenotOS5 – cPanel and BIND
Posted on 22. Jun, 2008 by wiredgorilla.
Tweet If you have issues with cPanel running CentOS5 with BIND then the easiest way is to downgrade BIND to 9.2.4 The reason you’re having trouble is because CentOS 5 uses bind-9.3 and CentOS 4 uses bind-9.2 – The changes between these versions is significant enough that cPanel won’t work with it properly. For instance [...]
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kernel yum upgrade
Posted on 21. Jun, 2008 by wiredgorilla.
Tweetcheck what kernel you are running at the moment uname -a and to upgrade your kernel yum update \kernel* check if your kernel is added to grub cat /boot/grub/grub.conf and then reboot shutdown -rf now
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Installing SSH public key for extra security on your Linux server
Posted on 21. Jun, 2008 by wiredgorilla.
Tweet Log into SSH mkdir $HOME/.ssh chmod -R og= $HOME/.ssh cd .ssh nano authorized_keys2 Add your key you created with PuttyGen , make absolutly sure you r key is in one line ONLY , otherwise it wont work! Adjust your sshd_config nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config to RSAAuthentication yes PubkeyAuthentication yes AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys2
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Installing and configuring Windows CDP Agents
Posted on 19. Jun, 2008 by wiredgorilla.
TweetR1Soft CDP is a easy to install and use continous data protection system, primarily targeted at the hosting market. It backups up multiple servers to a central backup server; multiple backup windows can be performed per day, and files or even the whole disk can be restored from the image. This tutorial will show you [...]
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Installing and configuring Linux CDP Agents
Posted on 17. Jun, 2008 by wiredgorilla.
TweetR1Soft CDP is a easy to install and use continous data protection system, primarily targeted at the hosting market. It backups up multiple servers to a central backup server; multiple backup windows can be performed per day, and files or even the whole disk can be restored from the image. This tutorial will show you [...]
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Preparing server for bare metal restore using R1Soft Live Rescue CD
Posted on 28. May, 2008 by wiredgorilla.
Tweet Follow these steps to prepare a Linux or Windows server backup system, prodced by R1Soft, for a bare metal restore. 1. Put the R1Soft Live Rescue CD into the machine you are going to restore to, and boot. Press enter at the splash screen. 2. Once you are logged in, type netconfig
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Installing Cacti
Posted on 20. May, 2008 by wiredgorilla.
Tweet Server monitoring is one of the most important aspects of managing a network. Cacti is a free PHP/MySQL script which can monitor everything from process counts to bandwidth, and is fairly easy to setup and use. If you have multiple clients you can even delegate specific access levels so that they can only view [...]
