Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (AMANDA) is a powerful open-source backup solution designed to simplify enterprise backup management. It enables IT administrators to use a single master server to back up multiple systems across a network, including Linux, Unix, and Windows machines. AMANDA supports various storage options such as tape drives, disks, and optical media, making it a flexible choice for businesses of all sizes. Why Choose AMANDA Backup? AMANDA is widely adopted due to its ability to streamline and automate backup processes. Key advantages include: It is an …
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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
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
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 : …
How to Fix “PHP Is Not Recognized as an Internal or External Command” in Windows
If you see this error in Command Prompt: it means Windows cannot find the PHP executable file. This happens when the PHP installation directory is not added to the system PATH environment variable. Let’s understand why this happens and how to fix it properly. Why This Error Occurs Windows uses a special environment variable called PATH to locate executable files when you run commands in Command Prompt. If PHP was: then its installation directory may not have been added to PATH. When that happens, Windows doesn’t know where php.exe is …
When managing Linux servers, administrators often need to move thousands of files from one directory to another. However, attempting to move a large number of files using the standard mv command may result in an error. This guide explains why the “Argument list too long” error occurs and how to safely move large numbers of files without issues. Why the Error Occurs If you try to move a huge number of files (for example, more than 50,000 files) using: you may see the following error: Reason Linux shells expand * …
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 …