Dovecot Auth Service Not Ready on a WHM/cPanel Server
On a stable and current WHM/Cpanel server, rarely rebooted, a reboot to disable SELinux caused Dovecot to stop working. The first major clue something was
Control Panels
Strict Drupal permissions are incompatible with WHM/cPanel incremental backups and causes timeout errors referring to pruning documentation
Yep you read it right. One of our favourite control panels, with one of our least favourite backup systems, are incompatible with Drupal’s strict permissions.
How to optimize WHM backups by increasing the number of cores available to the PIGZ process
WHM has a handy “tweak” setting that can increase the speed of backups. If you match this setting with the number of cores on your
What are all the CRONs that come with a default WHM/cPanel installation?
For your perusal we output all the CRONs that come with a default WHM/cPanel installation. This list is dated 30 July 2020 and is probably
How to change the backup time for a WHM/cPanel server
The CRON The default backup time for a WHM/cPanel server is embedded in the root CRON. To change the time of the backup, you may
How to fix WHM “The hostname must be a Fully Qualified Domain Name”
Description On a WHM server, you might get a message such as the following: The hostname must be a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). Ensure you have
Unreliable and Intermittent Amazon S3 Backups on Virtualmin and WHM/cPanel – EU (London) Zone
Background If you find that your Amazon S3 backups are working perfectly in the default US Zones, but fails in EU London zone, then try
Domain example.com has exceeded the max defers and failures per hour WHM/cPanel
Background Users on a WHM/cPanel might encounter the following message: “Domain example.com has exceeded the max defers and failures per hour” The settings for this
Excessive logging of TCP_IN Blocked messages on a WHM server
Background Whilst observing a WHM/cPanel’s log file using tail -f /var/log/messages you might observe 1000s of events, sometimes every few seconds, similar to the following:
Webminstats fails on new installation because RRDs module is missing
Background On some installations of Webmin the Webminstats module won’t work just work because the RRD library is missing. This brief article explains what do