Month: February 2010

Fantastico Bug

Just a heads up… There is a bug when you try to install Fantastico via whm and click “Click here in order to activate Fantastico in the WHM Features Manager.”, it says , ” no name specified for the feature list”. Netenberg says they should have a new version out early next week which will…


Superbowl weekend yo!

Hey, it’s superbowl weekend all, no posts till tomorrow night… Enjoy the game! Go Colts!


Nice little ddos script

Here is a nice little ddos script which works well. Installation wget http://www.inetbase.com/scripts/ddos/install.sh sh install.sh Uninstalling wget http://www.inetbase.com/scripts/ddos/uninstall.ddos sh uninstall.ddos Their site is currently under construction but the script is accessable http://www.inetbase.com/scripts/ddos/ Remember, make sure you do not leave this script running on the server. When the ddos is over, turn it off!


Cphulk lock out

If you get locked out of your box by cphulk (what, you mean you didn’t add yourself to the whilelist???) if you have access to the console, you can run the following command to temporarily disable cphulk (SMASH!!!) and get yourself back in so you can whitelist your IP. /usr/local/cpanel/bin/cphulk_pam_ctl –disable /usr/local/cpanel/etc/init/safekill cphulk service mysql…


Copy overwrite protection

I recently copied an entire directory to a folder and during the cp (copy), but some of the files were changed/modified during the cp. I went to re-copy the files again and was struck with the inevitable “do you want to over write this file…?” 19,000,000 times… I did a Ctrl+C to stop the operation…


Cpanel Bandwidth Tracking issue

In cPanel 11.25 they have made a few feature improvements to the bandwidth tracking system built into WHM and cPanel. While these new features grant you a much more accurate and granular view of client bandwidth usage, customers with inadequately sized /var partitions may run into issues related to partition size and disk space consumption….


FileZilla FTP on Ubuntu Linux Screencast Tutorial

From osgui.com Screencast Tutorial on how to use filezilla FTP free software on Ubuntu Linux or Linux Mint. Filezilla is cross-platform. Original video production by the www.OSGUI.com Tech Show.


Fixing the default shell in Ubuntu / Linux Mint

From bloovis.com Several years ago, the Ubuntu developers made a horrible decision to make dash the default shell instead of bash. This breaks numerous shell scripts, and I recently discovered it also broke one of my own Ruby scripts that depended on bash’s signal handling. The problem here was that when a TERM signal is…


Apache 1.3.42 released today

Apache announces new release for 1.3 Apache HTTP Server 1.3.42 Released The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 1.3.42 of the Apache HTTP Server (“Apache”). This release is intended as the final release of version 1.3 of the Apache HTTP Server, which has reached…


Nvidia drivers 195.36.03 (beta) for Linux x86/x86_64 released

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/195.36.03/ 195.36.03 (beta) for Linux x86/x86_64 released Release highlights: Fixed a regression that made the “TVStandard” X configuration option cause system hangs with products from the GeForce 6 and 7 series. Worked around a bug in some AUO laptop flat panels where the native mode in the EDID is invalid, leading to a 640×480 desktop…