Category: Cpanel

cPanel whmapi1 modifyacct notes

2075  admin  

Example of the command:

whmapi1 modifyacct user=XXXX QUOTA=XXXX

Some popular parameters:

BWLIMIT=unlimited
QUOTA=unlimited
CGI=y
CPMOD=paper_lantern
DIGESTAUTH=n
FEATURELIST=default
HASSHELL=n
MAXADDON=unlimited
MAXFTP=unlimited
MAXLST=unlimited
MAXPARK=unlimited
MAXPOP=unlimited
MAXSQL=unlimited
MAXSUB=unlimited
MAX_DEFER_FAIL_PERCENTAGE=100
MAX_EMAILACCT_QUOTA=unlimited
MAX_EMAIL_PER_HOUR=100
FRONTPAGE=n
IP=n
LANG=en
domain=domain.com
user=cpaneluser
MAX_DEFER_FAIL_PERCENTAGE=5
MAX_EMAILACCT_QUOTA=100
BACKUP=0
HASCGI=1
FEATURELIST=featurelist
OWNER=owner
HASDKIM=1
HASSPF=1
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How to disable Mailman archiving

2067  admin  
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Sudenly you may find that your mailing list archive has grown too large.

So you need to decide if you’re really need to keep your archives and if not then go ahead and disable it:

- Login your cPanel 
- 'Maillist'
- select your mail list
- 'Archiving Options'
- set 'Archive messages?'
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How to fix CSF’s error Another app is currently holding the xtables lock

2055  admin  
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The error should be looking as below:

You have an unresolved error when starting csf:
Error: Error processing command for line [339] (6 times): [Another app is currently holding the xtables lock. Perhaps you want to use the -w option?], at line 339 in /usr/sbin/csf

You need to restart csf successfully to remove this warning, or delete /etc/csf/csf.error… Read the rest

How to enable Slow Query Log

2043  admin  

Append into /etc/my.cnf the following:

slow_query_log = 1
slow-query_log_file = /var/log/mysql-slow.log
long_query_time = 2

Create /var/log/mysql-slow.log log file and set it as mysql user:

touch /var/log/mysql-slow.log
chown mysql:mysql /var/log/mysql-slow.log

Restart MySQL server:

/scripts/restartsrv_mysql

Monitor the logs using mysqldumpslow command:

mysqldumpslow -a /var/log/mysql-slow.log
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Mysqldump error: The user specified as a definer does not exist

2039  admin  
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Error:

mysqldump myuser_db > myuser_db.sql

mysqldump: Got error: 1449: “The user specified as a definer (‘user_db’@’localhost’) does not exist” when using LOCK TABLES

To pass this error try to use –single-transaction

mysqldump --single-transaction myuser_db > myuser_db.sql

Should be good now

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26583103/mysqldump-got-error-1449/26583311… Read the rest

Enable SpamAssassin globally for all users

2033  admin  

You can either go ahead over WHM –> Exim Configuration Manager –> Apache SpamAssassin Options –> Apache SpamAssassin™: Forced Global ON set to ON

or simply touch a file:

 touch /etc/global_spamassassin_enable

Now you have got SpamAssassin enabled for all users with default score 5

The default 5 score can be overwritten over by a user via /home/USER/.spamassassin/user_prefs… Read the rest

How to rebuild named.conf file on cPanel server

2028  admin  

You can have a lot of errors like below inside your logs which indicate a broken named.conf file

Apr 14 08:32:17 server1 pdns_server: Backend reported condition which prevented lookup (Zone for ‘sub.domain.com’ in ‘/var/named/sub.domain.com.db’ temporarily not available (file missing, or master dead)) sending out servfail

Backup your current named.conf… Read the rest