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How to find the number of user accounts via shell ?

by Aromal Rajagopal | Feb 15, 2010 | Quick fixes, Technical | 0 comments

Issue : There is no control panel installed on the server. So, how can the total number of user accounts on the system be determined? Solution: Use the following command to find the total number of accounts on the system : cat /etc/passwd | wc -l Note : This will also...

Problem with yum update

by Aromal Rajagopal | Feb 13, 2010 | Quick fixes, Technical | 0 comments

Issue : Following is the error that occurred : Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile addons | 951 B 00:00 base | 2.1 kB 00:00 extras | 1.1 kB 00:00 updates | 1.9 kB 00:00 Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what...

How to hide DNS controls from resellers/users

by Aromal Rajagopal | Feb 11, 2010 | Quick fixes, Technical | 0 comments

Issue : The server is mainly used for serving webpages and FTP. Certain things like DNS functions and email are not required as they are being handled externally. How can these be hidden from resellers/users? Solution : DNS, email or any other functionality can be...

/bin/sh: /usr/local/bandmin/bandmin: is a directory

by Aromal Rajagopal | Feb 10, 2010 | Quick fixes, Technical | 0 comments

Issue : The cronjob results in the following error : /bin/sh: /usr/local/bandmin/bandmin: is a directory Solution : This happens when the bandmin directory simply contains another bandmin directory instead of an executable script of the same name. Run the following...

How to Block Emails from a Specific Address using Exim?

by Aromal Rajagopal | Feb 7, 2010 | Quick fixes, Technical | 0 comments

Issue : How to block emails from a specific address on a cPanel/WHM server using Exim ? Solution : This is fairly easy to achieve with Exim. First you’ll need to find the system filter file for Exim. This can be found out through WHM >> Main >>...

Not able to login to FTP accounts using root password

by Aromal Rajagopal | Feb 7, 2010 | Quick fixes, Technical | 0 comments

Issue : Was able to login to all FTP accounts using the root password earlier but now it doesn’t seem to work. Where to check that? Fix : Go to WHM >> Main >> Service Configuration >> FTP Server Configuration. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find an...