Auto complete by hitting TAB does not work in Terminal

There may be situations when you are trying to autocomplete the file and/or directory name by hitting TAB button from keyboard but it is not working as expected. You may wondering why rather than autocompleting (or giving suggestions on multiple matches) the insertion point is just going far and far ! Probably the solution is [...]

cPanel JailShell, Unmount and Clean Virtfs

If you’re a sysadmin of Cpanel server, you might be aware of the JailShell. Its nothing but a User Shell with limited privileges. Users requesting for shell access to the webhosting server are provided with such shell instead of bash (Which provides root level privileges to users) . Jailshell limits the users access to their [...]

fork: resource temporarily unavailable ???

If you are getting Linux error message, Resource temporarily unavailable, it’s because your system is limiting the number of files / processes / CPU that your particular user ID can use. If you use WHM/Cpanel, enabling the “Shell fork bomb protection” can make the “Resource temporarily unavailable” message appear more often. You may get rid [...]

Disallow /cpanel, /webmail to be redirected to ssl/tls ports (2083, 2096)

If you are getting certificate errors while you are trying to visit http://domain/cpanel, the most probable reason is that the error is regarding the issuer. That is most people usages self-signed SSL certificates for the services. The error is not a big issue comparing to the benefits of using secured over Non-secured connections.  However, for [...]

Clean/Flushing Exim mail queue

Sometimes, it is necessary to clean the mail queue of exim. It is not very tough thing to to. Use the following steps to do the same: Login to WHM as root Click Mail Queue Manager from Email section of left side menu You will get a new page in right frame. Click Delete all [...]

Apache configuration (httpd.conf) checking

Many times you may experience apache failing only due to misconfiguration of apache configuration file (httpd.conf or apache.conf or apache2.conf). It is hard to manually check specially when the length of file is long specially due to many virtual hosts. However, we are blessed by an automatic syntax checking tool ported with apache. To check [...]

Installing PostgreSQL on cPanel/WHM Server

Installing PostgreSQL is not a difficult process, but you should follow the steps below in order to ensure that everything is properly configured. Note: cPanel requires PostgreSQL 7.3.x or later. Earlier versions will not work. If necessary, update to cPanel 7.4.0 build 45 (or later). You can update cPanel by typing /scripts/upcp from the command [...]

Updating Apache using Cpanel EasyApache

EasyApache is a pre configured script that allows you to easily update Apache Web server through WHM or SSH. In this tutorial we will show you how to update apache using SSH /scripts/easyapache. Requirements: Root SSH access to your server Login as root through SSH. 1) Login to your server and su – to root. [...]

Installing new theme?

To install new cPanel theme you need to root login details. Once you logged in to server follow the steps cd /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/ mkdir -p cpanelappinstall cd cpanelappinstall wget -q http://www.cpanelskindepot.com/skindownload/cpanelappinstall.tar tar -xf cpanelappinstall.tar rm -f cpanelappinstall.tar Then run https://IP:2087/cpanelappinstall/install.php and follow the steps Note : Replace IP with your servers IP or hostname.

scripts in /scripts directory explanation

WebHost Manager has a large number of predefined scripts available in the /scripts folder. The available scripts are as follows: adddns – Adds a DNS zone. addfpmail – Add frontpage mail exts to all domains without them. addnetmaskips – Add the netmask 255.255.255.0 to all ips that have no netmask. addpop – Add a Pop [...]

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