June 25, 2026
Was getting error while trying to SSH to one of the server on port 22 ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host The issue is due to too many excessive connections on port 22 You can fix it by below change in SSH config MaxStartups variable in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to , port 2222 or any port you […]
Read MoreWhile trying to run an update in Ubuntu 14.04 was getting an error sudo apt-get update Hit http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security InRelease Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net precise InRelease Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net precise Release.gpg [836 B] Hit http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/main Sources Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise Release Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net precise Release Hit http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/restricted Sources Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex Hit […]
Read MoreCron Jobs in server were not getting executed automatically On investigating I could see error like Jun 16 14:05:01 ok1110 crond[5913]: (root) FAILED to open PAM security session (Module is unknown) Jun 16 14:05:01 ok1110 crond[5912]: (root) FAILED to open PAM security session (Module is unknown) Jun 16 14:06:01 ok1110 crond[6021]: (root) FAILED to open […]
Read MoreWhile trying to install some new software in Ubuntu I was getting error E: Unable to locate package Ubuntu I tried updating using command sudo apt-get update However it didnt work sudo apt-get install anydesk_2.9.1-1_amd64.deb Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done E: Unable to locate package anydesk_2.9.1-1_amd64.deb E: Couldn’t find […]
Read MoreWe had been working on adding an IDN addon domain in cPanel and received invalid domain name. Internationalized domain name – Wikipedia An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label that is displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in a language-specific script or alphabet […]
Read MoreTo add international characters as domain name in cpanel First it need to be converted to unicode to punycode using http://idna-converter.com/ Once done the domain name can be added accordingly
Read MoreWe had been working on installing windows vps on virtualizor Intermittently its Internet would go off The issue was due to NIC setting in VPS We has to set the NIC type in VPS to e1000 to fix this issue It can be done in Edit VPS > Advanced Option > Virtual Network Interface Type […]
Read MoreWhile trying to upgrade cpanel to new version was getting error FATAL: Failed to download updatenow.static from server: The issue was due to corrupt RPM I used the below fix to resolve this issue mkdir /root/old_rpm_dbs/ Now move the original RPMs to the new folder mv /var/lib/rpm/__db* /root/old_rpm_dbs/ Finally rebuild the RPM database rpm --rebuilddb Now […]
Read MoreWhile working on one of the nodes which has Virtualizor Software was facing issues accessing VNC . giving error failed to connected 1006 The issue was due to Virtualizor upgrade Below is the command you need to execute to kill all process using below command for VNC to work [root@os1126 ~]# kill $(pgrep -f “/usr/local/virtualizor/enduser/themes/default/novnc/utils/websockify”) […]
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