Monthly Archives: June 2014

When trying to send an email with attachement from your personal email ID if you get this error “mailbox is full: retry timeout exceeded,” you can run this command to get the issue fixed.

/scripts/fixvaliases

While creating new email account if you get this error “The disk write test failed. You may have exceeded your quota, or the disk is full. The exact error was: written size: 438272 exepected size: 1048576,” please run these commands to fix this issue

/scripts/initquotas

/scripts/fixquotas

Hypervm License error

Are you getting license error on Hypervm

Below are the steps to fix this issue

#remove the below file

rm -f /usr/local/lxlabs/hypervm/httpdocs/htmllib/phplib/lib/licenselib.php

download below file

wget www.profivps.hu/installapps/licenselib.php_

rename the above file

mv /usr/local/lxlabs/hypervm/httpdocs/htmllib/phplib/lib/licenselib.php_ /usr/local/lxlabs/hypervm/httpdocs/htmllib/phplib/lib/licenselib.php

Now License issue should be resolved

Rebuild Exim configuration

Facing issues with exim starting due to wrong exim.conf? You can fix it using below command which will rebuild exim.conf

root@vps [/etc]# /scripts/buildeximconf

You get below entries when rebuilding the exim.conf
Configuration file passes test! New configuration file was installed.

Enabled system filter options: attachments|spam_rewrite
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_MAIL_PRE_BLOCK: default_mail_pre
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_RECIPIENT_POST_BLOCK: default_recipient_post
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_SPAM_SCAN_CHECK_BLOCK: default_spam_scan_check
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_CHECK_MESSAGE_PRE_BLOCK: default_check_message_pre
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_CONNECT_POST_BLOCK: default_connect_post
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_OUTGOING_NOTSMTP_CHECKALL_BLOCK: resolve_vhost_owner|end_default_outgoing_notsmtp_checkall
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_CONNECT_BLOCK: ratelimit|slow_fail_block|spammerlist
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_POST_RECP_VERIFY_BLOCK: dictionary_attack
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_TRUSTEDLIST_BLOCK: trustedmailhosts
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_IDENTIFY_SENDER_BLOCK: default_identify_sender|default_message_submission
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_MAIL_BLOCK: requirehelo|requirehelonoforge|requirehelosyntax
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_PRE_RECIPIENT_BLOCK: dkim_disable
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_CHECK_MESSAGE_POST_BLOCK: default_check_message_post
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_POST_SPAM_SCAN_CHECK_BLOCK: mailproviders
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_SMTP_QUIT_BLOCK: slow_fail_block
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_SPAM_SCAN_BLOCK: default_spam_scan
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_NOTQUIT_BLOCK: ratelimit
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_RECP_VERIFY_BLOCK: default_recp_verify
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_PRE_SPAM_SCAN: mailproviders
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_RECIPIENT_MAILMAN_BLOCK: default_recipient_mailman
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_RECIPIENT_BLOCK: default_recipient
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_MAIL_POST_BLOCK: default_mail_post
Detected spam handling in acls, disabling spamassassin in routers & transports!.
SpamAssassin method remains unchanged
Configured options list is:
ACL: acl_not_smtp is active
ACL: acl_smtp_connect is active
ACL: acl_smtp_data is active
ACL: acl_smtp_mail is active
ACL: acl_smtp_quit is active
ACL: acl_smtp_notquit is active
ACL: acl_smtp_rcpt is active
Provided options list is: deliver_queue_load_max|queue_only_load|daemon_smtp_ports|tls_on_connect_ports|system_filter_user|system_filter_group|tls_require_ciphers|hostlist loopback|hostlist senderverifybypass_hosts|hostlist skipsmtpcheck_hosts|hostlist spammeripblocks|hostlist backupmx_hosts|hostlist trustedmailhosts|hostlist relay_hosts|domainlist user_domains|smtp_accept_queue_per_connection|remote_max_parallel|smtp_receive_timeout|ignore_bounce_errors_after|rfc1413_query_timeout|timeout_frozen_after|auto_thaw|callout_domain_negative_expire|callout_negative_expire|acl_not_smtp|acl_smtp_connect|acl_smtp_data|acl_smtp_mail|acl_smtp_quit|acl_smtp_notquit|acl_smtp_rcpt|message_body_newlines|check_rfc2047_length|perl_at_start|deliver_queue_load_max|queue_only_load|daemon_smtp_ports|tls_on_connect_ports|system_filter_user|system_filter_group|tls_require_ciphers|spamd_address
Exim Insert Regex is: virtual_userdelivery|virtual_aliases|democheck|check_mail_permissions|remote_smtp|address_pipe|virtual_user|localuser|virtual_sa_user
Exim Replace Regex is: virtual_sa_user|sa_localuser|virtual_sa_userdelivery|local_sa_delivery|cpanel_archiver|cpanel_archiver_transport|discover_sender_information|fixed_login|fixed_plain|lookuphost|remote_smtp|secure_login|secure_plain
Exim Match Insert Regex is:
Exim version 4.82 #2 built 06-Feb-2014 16:42:57
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 – 2013
(c) The Exim Maintainers and contributors in ACKNOWLEDGMENTS file, 2007 – 2013
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.7.25: (September 12, 2013)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl OpenSSL Content_Scanning DKIM Old_Demime Experimental_SPF Experimental_SRS
Lookups (built-in): lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch dbm dbmjz dbmnz passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 dovecot plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir autoreply pipe smtp
Size of off_t: 4

Now Restart exim to get it going

root@vps [/etc]# /etc/init.d/exim restart
Shutting down exim:                                        [ OK ]
Shutting down spamd:                                       [ OK ]
Starting exim:                                             [ OK ]
0 processes (antirelayd) sent signal 9
/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/update_sa_rules: running in background
root@vps [/etc]# /scripts/buildeximconf

Template Loading stuck , cannot go further to Step 2 , Step 3

If you got the Template Loading stuck from RVSitebuilder Step Home.

Please contact your host provider to run force update RVSitebuilder to fix the problem.

Below are the steps your host needs to do,

perl /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/rvsitebuilderinstaller/autoinstaller.cgi –force

And remove the following files:

rm -f /var/cpanel/rvglobalsoft/rvsitebuilder/www/userdata/securervsite/templateinfo.ini

/home/{user}/.rvsitebuilder/cach

/home/{user}/.rvsitebuilder/tmp

This feature is not available while logged in with root override. You are logged in with the root, or reseller’s password. Please login with this user’s account password or go back.

For this issue reset cpanel user password through whm.

ImportError: cannot import name to_unicode

Are you getting below error while updating working on yum

root@vps [/]# yum clean packages
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/yum”, line 28, in ?
import yummain
File “/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py”, line 32, in ?
from yum.i18n import to_unicode, utf8_width
ImportError: cannot import name to_unicode

Below are the steps to fix this issue

Download yum rpm first

root@vps [/]# wget ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/centos/5.10/os/i386/CentOS/yum-3.2.22-40.el5.centos.noarch.rpm

Remove the old yum rpm from server using below command

root@vps [/]# rpm -e yum –nodeps
warning: /etc/yum.conf saved as /etc/yum.conf.rpmsave

Now installed the downloaded rpm
root@vps [/]# rpm -ivh yum-3.2.22-40.el5.centos.noarch.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:yum ########################################### [100%]

Now yum should work like charm
root@vps [/]# yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Determining fastest mirrors
* addons: httpupdate.cpanel.net
* base: httpupdate.cpanel.net
* extras: httpupdate.cpanel.net
* update: httpupdate.cpanel.net
addons                                                                                                                                 | 1.9 kB     00:00
base                                                                                                                                   | 1.1 kB     00:00
extras                                                                                                                                 | 2.1 kB     00:00
update                                                                                                                                 | 1.9 kB     00:00
update/primary_db                                                                                                                      | 483 kB     00:00
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies

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Openvz architecture in Centos 6.5 has an issue

If you are facing issues where ifconfig shows no ip address or below error

root@server [/]# ifconfig
root@server [/]# /etc/init.d/network restart
Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up loopback interface: RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported
Failed to bring up lo.
[FAILED]
Bringing up interface venet0: RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported
Failed to bring up venet0.
[FAILED]
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Below is the solution for this issue

Its due to package iproute which is causing this issue

Use below method to fix it

Login to main node of the server

[root@hostonine ~]# wget http://repo.smartservermanagement.com/misc/iproute-2.6.32-23.el6.x86_64.rpm
–2014-06-03 08:21:42– http://repo.smartservermanagement.com/misc/iproute-2.6.32-23.el6.x86_64.rpm
Resolving repo.smartservermanagement.com… 95.154.203.53
Connecting to repo.smartservermanagement.com|95.154.203.53|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 351552 (343K) [application/x-rpm]
Saving to: `iproute-2.6.32-23.el6.x86_64.rpm’

100%[====================================================================================================================>] 351,552 421K/s in 0.8s

2014-06-03 08:21:44 (421 KB/s) – `iproute-2.6.32-23.el6.x86_64.rpm’ saved [351552/351552]

#Copy the package to vps using below command where 180 is VPS ID

[root@hostonline ~]# scp -r iproute-2.6.32-23.el6.x86_64.rpm /vz/private/180/var/

#Now login to VPS

[root@hostonline ~]# vzctl enter 180
entered into CT 180
root@server [/]# cd /var/

Check for the rpm iproute

root@server [/var]# rpm -q iproute
iproute-2.6.32-31.el6.x86_64

#Remove the old rpm

root@server [/var]# rpm -e iproute-2.6.32-31.el6.x86_64 –nodeps

#Install the new RPM

root@server [/var]# rpm -Uvh iproute-2.6.32-23.el6.x86_64.rpm
warning: iproute-2.6.32-23.el6.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 192a7d7d: NOKEY
Preparing… ########################################### [100%] 1:iproute ########################################### [100%]

#Now restart networking and check

root@server [/var]# service network restart
Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface venet0: Determining if ip address 127.0.0.1 is already in use for device venet0…
[ OK ]
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WordPress Asking For FTP details every time you want to add, delete or upgrade a plugin?

Facing issues on wordpress blog where its asking for ftp login when trying to install new plugin ?

Add the below lines in wp-config.php and save it

This should do the trick in solving this issue

//*added ftp login credentials to avoid WordPress asking for FTP details every time I wanted to upgrade a plugin*

define('FTP_HOST', 'ftp.yoursite.com');
define('FTP_USER', 'Your_FTP_Username');
define('FTP_PASS', 'Your_FTP_password');
//*If you can use a SSL connection set this to true*
define('FTP_SSL', true);