The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (AMANDA), is a backup solution that allows the IT administrator to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts over network to tape drives/changers or disks or optical media. Amanda can back up a large number of servers and workstations running multiple versions of Linux or Unix and Windows servers and desktops by using a native windows client. Features Client-server architecture: Automatic backup level selection: A consistent backup window and resource utilization An intelligent backup scheduler: Data encryption and …
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MariaDB is a high performance drop-in replacement for MySQL, developed by some of the original authors of the MySQL project. For years, MySQL has been the dominant open-source database management system (DBMS). Recently, MariaDB, the MySQL fork created by MySQL’s founder, has been making in-roads and websites like Wikipedia the world’s sixth most popular Web site, is shifting over from MySQL to MariaDB. Lets check how to replace MYSQL with MARIADB in a cpanel server Step 1: Backup existing MySQL data Before installing mariadb make sure to take backup of …
Subversion (SVN) is an open source version control system. It helps you keep track of a collection of files and folders. Any time you change, add or delete a file or folder that you manage with Subversion, you commit these changes to your Subversion repository, which creates a new revision in your repository reflecting these changes. You can always go back, look at and get the contents of previous revisions. This article will help you for step by step setup SVN server on a cPanel/WHM server. Prerequisite 1. …
A new vulnerability has been found that potentially affects most versions of the Linux and Unix operating systems, in addition to Mac OS X. Known as the “Bash Bug” or “ShellShock,” the GNU Bash Remote Code Execution Vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain control over a targeted computer if exploited successfully. And because Bash is everywhere on Linux and Unix-like machines and interacts with all parts of the operating system, everyone anticipates that it will have lot of repercussions. How does Shellshock work? Shellshock exploits a flaw in how …
Installation of PECL_HTTP Extension From Source Code in Custom PHP in Cloudlinux
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Suppose that your Linux server has PHP version selector installed and configured. As you know alternative php5.x (while using PHP version selector) versions should load /opt/alt/php5x/etc/php.ini file and scan /opt/alt/php5x/etc/php.d directory for modules:: ==== Configuration File (php.ini) Path /opt/alt/php5x/etc Loaded Configuration File /opt/alt/php5x/etc/php.ini Scan this dir for additional .ini files /opt/alt/php5x/etc/php.d additional .ini files parsed /opt/alt/php5x/etc/php.d/alt_php.ini ==== Those are default locations for alt-php. Steps in installing pecl http package in cloudlinux platform: 1. Download the pecl_http package from pecl website http://pecl.php.net/package/pecl_http and compile it. #wget http://pecl.php.net/get/pecl_http-2.0.4.tgz 2. Extract the package …
How to fix – Error: Account Creation Status: failed,mysql user with the name already exists
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While restoring a cPanel account from one server to another server there is a chance for following error: Account Creation Status: failed (Sorry, a mysql user (let’s take ‘dbuser’) with the name already exists To Delete the user : Please login into the mysql and follow the steps mysql mysql > use mysql; mysql > drop user dbuser@localhost; OR mysql> delete from mysql.user where user=dbuser; You can also check this using : select User, Host from user where User like dbuser; Where dbuser is the user mentioned in the error. …
‘rncd : connection failed : connection refused’ is a common error occurred in cpanel. Inorder to get the name servers work properly we need to eliminate this error. Elimination of this error is a simple process which takes only a few minutes via cPanel /scripts.. The steps to solve the issue is as follows : 1. Login to your server as root via SSH 2. Run: /scripts/updatenow 3. Run: /scripts/fixrndc The above steps should fix most of the cases, but if it does not, do follow the following steps : …
You can fix this by correcting the PATH in Environment variables. PATH %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\system32\wbem;C:\Program Files\Intel\DMIX;C:\Program Files\ClarisoftTechnologies\iMonitorPC;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem Change the above line as bellow PATH C:\php;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\system32\wbem;C:\Program Files\Intel\DMIX;C:\Program Files\ClarisoftTechnologies\iMonitorPC;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem If you require help, contact SupportPRO Server Admin
If you are trying to move large number of files such as more than 50000 files using the command mv, you will get the error given below. [root@server /]# mv * /path/to/move “/bin/mv: Argument list too long” In such cases, you can use the command given below to avoid this error , find /path/to/file -type f | xargs -i mv “{}” /path/to/move If you require help, contact SupportPRO Server Admin
If your server are having multiple IP address and you want to send each emails in different IP, then please follow the steps. This is used to maintain the ip reputation. Also, please make sure that this is not used for spamming. 1. vi /etc/exim.conf 2. Search for the line : interface = 3. Replace this line with interface = xxx.xxx.x.1${eval:${substr{-2}{1}{$tod_zulu}}%9+1} 4. If your server is having ip’s from xxx.xxx.x.11 to xxx.xxx.x.20 , you can use above line. +1 is is the starting ip ie xxx.xxx.x.1’1′ and %9 is the …