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December 15, 2013

SuperMicro ipmicfg utility on Linux

SuperMicro have a nice little utility called ipmicfg, which can be used to interact with the IPMI BMC from within your operating system. This can do all sorts of things with the IPMI BMC, however it’s really useful if you want to change the IP address details on the IPMI card without rebooting your system and going into the BIOS...

IPMI/Linux/Red Hat and CentOS/SuperMicro

September 13, 2013

ImageMagick and PHP 5.4

When building the PHP imagick module for ImageMagick on a server running PHP 5.4 (a cPanel/WHM box in this case), you receive the following error: /root/tmp/pear/imagick/imagick_class.c: In function ‘zim_imagick_setfont’: /root/tmp/pear/imagick/imagick_class.c:1442: error: ‘struct _php_core_globals’ has no member named ‘safe_mode’ /root/tmp/pear/imagick/imagick_class.c:1442: error: ‘CHECKUID_CHECK_FILE_AND_DIR’ undeclared (first use in this function) /root/tmp/pear/imagick/imagick_class.c:1442: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once /root/tmp/pear/imagick/imagick_class.c:1442: error: for each...

cPanel/WHM/PHP Comments: 0

September 11, 2013

Dell DSET on CentOS

Those of you unfortunate enough to have encountered the Dell technical suport department will know their love for the Dell diagnostic tools. Those of you who run CentOS and have been asked for a DSET report (Dell System E-Support Tool) will also know that the DSET tool refuses to run on an “unsupported” operating system. Luckily, DSET is quite easy...

Dell PowerEdge Comments: 0

September 8, 2013

Citrix XenServer boot from CD/DVD

If you’re using Paravirtualised (PV) guest Virtual Machines on Citrix XenServer, then it’s not immediately obvious how to boot the guest from a CD/DVD should you need to. In the “Boot Options” tab of the Properties for the Virtual Machine, the “Boot Device” drop down menu will be greyed out, with no obvious way of enabling it. The actual method...

Citrix XenServer Comments: 0

August 4, 2013

Bulk delete etc. failing in Zimbra 8

Shortly after upgrading to Zimbra 8, I ran into annoying behavior when trying to delete large numbers of messages, both via IMAP and the web interface. If deleting the messages one-by-one (even in quick succession), then everything was fine, but if I selected several messages and deleted them all at once then it would fail with a “UID COPY failed”...

Zimbra Comments: 0

July 28, 2013

Building httpd 2.4.6

When trying to build an RPM from the Apache source tarball, rpmbuild bails with: RPM build errors: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_wstunnel.so The problem is that the mod_proxy_wstunnel.so file has been omitted from the httpd.spec file used to build the RPM. Extract the tarball, open up httpd.spec in your favourite text editor and scroll down until you find a...

Apache HTTPD/Red Hat and CentOS Comments: 0

June 30, 2013

Unable to login to the admin area after upgrading from WHMCS 5.1.7 to 5.2.x

There is a “known issue” with the upgrade process from WHMCS 5.1.7 to 5.2.x where it fails to run some of the SQL files in the “install” folder for some reason which leaves you unable to login to the admin area with the same “Login Failed” error message that you get if the username and password that you enter are...

WHMCS Comments: 0

May 25, 2013

Not able to unsuspend a domain in Parallels Plesk

If you are seeing the following unhelpful message when trying to unsuspend a domain in Parallels Plesk running on Windows Server: Warning: The domain is still suspended for the following reason: This user account and user’s domain were suspended Then you will need to use the command line domain.exe tool to manually unsuspend the domain: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Parallels\Plesk\admin\bin\domain.exe” –on I’ve...

Control panels/Windows Comments: 0

October 27, 2012

Scheduled backups failing in Plesk 9.5

If you are using MySQL 5.5 with Parallels Plesk 9.5 then you might have noticed that scheduled backups using the built in backup utility have stopped working. Backups manually initiated through the Parallels Plesk control panel interface run normally, but they don’t run automatically on the configured schedule. This is thanks to some compatibility issues between the Parallels “backupmng” tool...

Plesk Comments: 0

October 18, 2012

Blank login page with Parallels Plesk

A recent micro-update from Parallels seems to have broken the login page on some Parallels Plesk servers. In my case, it was a Plesk 9.5.4 server running on Linux. If you look in the Plesk web server (“sw-cp-server”) error log at “/var/log/sw-cp-server/error_log” then you should see entries such as: (mod_fastcgi.c.2582) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_failure_redirect_url() in...

Plesk Comments: 0