Control panels - Spheron1

February 3, 2011

cPanel root partition space warning disabling operation of some features in WHM

If you manage to accidentally fill up the root partition on your cPanel/WHM server, then WHM helpfully disables some features such as creating and terminating (deleting) accounts so that you don’t end up with half of an account. You will see a message something along the lines of this in WHM when attempting a restricted function: The / partition on...

cPanel/WHM Comments: 0

December 31, 2010

cPanel Native SSL support failed error

If your cPanel/WHM install randomly sends you an e-mail one day along the lines of: Native SSL support failed to pass the startup test. stunnel was started instead. The exact error was: [linktest=/usr/local/cpanel/bin/linktest-ssl: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/cpanel/perl/Net/SSLeay/SSLeay.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ] [binary=/usr/local/cpanel/cpsrvd-ssl] [cpsrvd=/usr/local/cpanel/cpsrvd-ssl: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/cpanel/perl/Net/SSLeay/SSLeay.so: cannot open...

cPanel/WHM Comments: 0

December 27, 2010

Parallels Plesk for Windows upgrade and lots of session files

Be careful when running the Parallels Plesk update utility on Windows servers if you have a large number of files in “C:\Program Files (x86)\Parallels\Plesk\admin\sessions” as once it has finished the upgrade the utility will try and clear this directory before letting you do anything else, including the mandatory reboot. It seems that it is quite easy for there to be...

Plesk/Windows Comments: 0

December 19, 2010

WHMCS 4.41 and the Plesk server module

WHMCS version 4.41 has split the Plesk server automation module out into three separate versions; plesk8, plesk9 and plesk10, but the upgrade script doesn’t handle changing the automation module settings for either your servers or your products/services. As a result of this short sightedness on the developer’s part you will loose all automation of your Plesk servers (account creation, suspension,...

Plesk/WHMCS Comment: 1

June 11, 2010

Parallels Plesk 9.5.1/9.5.2 and Greylisting

In April’s Plesk 9.5.1 update (following on from 9.3.x – apparently Parallels can’t count so just skipped 9.4.x and 9.5.0 entirely…) they managed to seriously break one of the great Plesk 9 features for Postfix users… greylisting! One of the big improvements when Plesk 9 was released (apart from ditching QMail!) was that it no longer relied upon unsupported third...

Plesk Comments: 0

March 15, 2010

cPanel/WHM and yum-updatesd

In my continuing fight with yum-updatesd, I found that on servers with cPanel/WHM installed it was crashing with mysterious Python errors: root@tma03 [/etc/yum]# yum-updatesd –debug –no-fork Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/sbin/yum-updatesd”, line 35, in ? import dbus File “/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/dbus/__init__.py”, line 1, in ? from _dbus import * File “/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py”, line 48, in ? from proxies import * File...

cPanel/WHM Comments: 0

March 5, 2010

@mail in Plesk 9.3

I recently upgraded a server to Plesk 9.3 only to find that it broken @mail. The list of available webmail clients no longer has @mail in it and trying to remove the psa-atmail RPM failed with a script error. In the end, I had to force the removal of the RPM with the –noscripts option and then go and manually...

Plesk Comments: 0

February 4, 2010

Per-domain/per-account settings for Plesk 9’s greylisting

Plesk 9 introduced the very useful feature of greylisting for the Postfix SMTP server (and presumably the QMail one as well, but I only use Postfix as QMail gives me a headache!). Greylisting basically sends a “resource temporarily unavailable, please try again later” message whenever someone connects and tries to deliver an e-mail. For legitimate SMTP servers, this isn’t a...

Plesk Comments: 0

Category: Control panels

cPanel root partition space warning disabling operation of some features in WHM

cPanel Native SSL support failed error

Parallels Plesk for Windows upgrade and lots of session files

WHMCS 4.41 and the Plesk server module

Parallels Plesk 9.5.1/9.5.2 and Greylisting

cPanel/WHM and yum-updatesd

@mail in Plesk 9.3

Per-domain/per-account settings for Plesk 9’s greylisting