Posts Tagged ‘cpanel’

sshcmdpermissiondeny – whm / cpanel

check the permissions of the private key in ~/.ssh/ Kept getting this error on account transfers, did a manual ssh connection, and the error was nothing to do with the password, it’s because the key had 755 permissions, i set them to 600 and it works fine.

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What version of exim is running?

Run this command at a prompt: exim -bV Enjoy!

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Emails Vanishing from a Users Inbox

This sounds strange doesn’t it, there one minute, gone the next.Initially I thought the server was at fault, perhaps a misguided spambox script was deleting the wrong directory or something like that. Turns out it was much simpler than that, after looking at the maillog (which displays POP3 and IMAP Connections), it turns out the [...]

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RoundCube Not Sending Emails (Cpanel)

Run this command in a shell prompt: tail -20 /var/cpanel/roundcube/log/errors It might list errors like the following: [30-May-2009 12:06:24] Invalid response code received from server (-1): [30-May-2009 12:06:24] Invalid response code received from server (-1): [30-May-2009 12:06:24] Invalid response code received from server (-1): [30-May-2009 12:06:24 +0100] SMTP Error: SMTP error: Authentication failure: Invalid response [...]

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Recovering Lost Email Addresses for a User

A user of NeostormInternet.com had lost their address book with many important email addresses, I was able to recover many of them from various logfiles on the server, whilst the messages no longer existed, whenever a mail arrives or is sent a record is saved to various text files on the server. So I had [...]

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Cpanel – Pureftpd Max Clients Per IP Limit Reached

I had a few clients with a fast internet connection running into the pure-ftpd max clients per ip address limit of 8. Because it was happening quite frequently, I made the changes in the pure-ftpd config file located here: /etc/pure-ftpd.conf You can edit the file like so: nano /etc/pure-ftpd.conf Ctrl + W (for search) Type: [...]

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lfd on servername.com failed

Sometimes a Cpanel server running lfd (part of CSF) will send you an email every minute because it’s detected an lfd service failure. Although it could have failed, what usually happens is a software update of CSF (config server firewall) might change the program id (pid), and chkservd (the service checker thats part of cpanel) [...]

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