June 25, 2026
Was getting the error for squirrel mail on cpanel server On Investigating could see issue was in Dovecot Below is the fix I used It’s possible that this can be rectified by increasing “Maximum Size of a Mail Process (MB)” under Main >> Service Configuration >> Mailserver Configuration in WHM. Once I did it the […]
Read MoreWas 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 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 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”) […]
Read MoreThe server was not allowing login to server even when ssh keys were saved On rebooting server I could see it and error on screen “chown: Invalid username: root:Disk” On troubleshooting found error to be due to corruption of /etc/passwd as this is where all users are saved and due to corruption the user root […]
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