Linux Shtuff

There are several ways to disable Mod Security for a specific domain, or location within a domains pages. More often then not, when you add a new domain after installing mod_security, you will see apache 500 errors when you try to post or a client tries to post a response in a forum. This can…

If spamd keeps failing, SSH into the server and run the following commands (in order): ps auxfww | grep spamd kill -9 PID /scripts/perlinstaller –force Digest::SHA1 /scripts/fixspamassassinfailedupdate /etc/init.d/chkservd restart

If Apache v2.x is installed on your server, you can view all of the modules compiled in with Apache by running the following command: httpd -l Also, you can use the following parameters. -v Print the version of httpd -L Output a list of directives together with expected arguments and places where the directive is…

PHPMyAdmin will not work for uploading large mysql databases. If you are working with phpMyAdmin and need to upload a large database you will often get the error “Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded with phpMyAdmin”. This is because in the phpMyAdmin configuration there is a setting which causes phpMyAdmin to timeout…

I came across this error today when a client called and was having difficulty with his database while running Prosper202. Prosper202 is a pay per click affiliate marketing software. If you are getting the “The table ‘202_clicks_spy’ is full” error message, then you will want to run these command from phpMyAdmin; Login to WHM, then…

I recent came across an issue where the /tmp folder was being listed as 100% full df -H | grep -vE ‘^Filesystem|tmpfs|cdrom’ /dev/sda7 2.1G 514M 1.5G 27% / /dev/sda8 124G 2.5G 115G 3% /home /dev/sdb1 156G 1.2G 146G 1% /backup /dev/sda6 2.1G 2.1G 0M 100% /tmp <

cPanel access denied for user modsec at mysql localhost If you get this email: /etc/cron.hourly/modsecparse.pl: DBI connect(’modsec:localhost’,’modsec’,…) failed: Access denied for user ‘modsec’@’localhost’ (using password: YES) at /etc/cron.hourly/modsecparse.pl line 19 Unable to connect to mysql database at /etc/cron.hourly/modsecparse.pl line 19. and you are using old cPanel/Apache 1.3 just goto whm -> Plugins then remove and…

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded with phpMyAdmin In the past, when trying to upload a database, PHPMyAdmin will not work and will throw the error; ***Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded*** This will usually occur when uploading very large mysql databases. To repair this issue, you will need…

Earlier a client was locked out of one of his server by cphulkd. When trying to access the servers WHM interface we were getting the following message: ————————————————————————————— This account is currently locked out because a brute force attempt was detected. Please wait 10 minutes and try again. Attempting to login again will only increase…

This is in reference to the Cpanel Package creation warning message seen here: Attempt to free unreferenced scalar The client was attempting to create packages for a reseller via WHM. WHM was showing a blank page and it did not appears that the packages were being created. In checking the CPanel error logs, located in…