The following is a guest post from Gwen Davis of hostingobserver.com. History The first cron was written in the early 1970s for Version 7 UNIX as a system service (also known in UNIX as a daemon). The algorithm, invoked from the /etc/inittab location whenever the OS entered a multi-user mode, was simple — every minute,…
Read moreUs administrators eventually come to the realization that when you have a wildcard SSL certificate for 40 subdomains, you can’t practically have separate IPs and cPanel accounts for all of them. If you have a wildcard SSL certificate for all your su cheap kamagra bdomains, you can easily install the certificate on a single IP…
Read morecPanel 11.28 introduces an way to easily implement your own RBLs for Exim to perform lookups against. To get started, log into WHM > Exim Configuration Editor and click on the RBLs tab, then Manage custom RBLs. From here, enter in the information for your RBL as follows: The DNS list would be the hostname…
Read moreThis post will explain a simple process for installing a Red5 Flash Media server in a VPS or Dedicated environment. Install Subversion and Java yum -y install java-1.7.0-openjdk java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel yum -y install subversion Install Ant (get the latest from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi) cd /opt wget http://apache.spinellicreations.com/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.9.0-bin.zip unzip ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.9.0-bin.zip mv apache-ant-1.9.0 ant ln -s /opt/ant/bin/ant /usr/bin/ant Update bash…
Read moreOne of the most common problems that hosting providers face is the issue of user email not being delivered to other mail servers. Not only does it annoy the end user, but it’s extremely frustrating for the server administrator to deal with since there’s not always a clear indication of why email doesn’t get delivered…
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Read moreI love waking up in on a nice Saturday morning to find out that one of my servers was rooted. A two-year-old kernel issue in Redhat distributions has surfaced in the form of a nasty exploit byAc1db1tch3z. Basically, a 32-bit binary is compiled and loaded to the server, and when run by any users (even…
Read moreYou’ll probably often see hosts that have a ton of extra icons in their cPanel for various items. When you’re customizing cPanel, it’s useful to be able to be able to add icon groups for features that either need to be grouped together, or that don’t fit into other categories. cPanel 11 makes it very…
Read moreClamAV is an popular open source anti-virus toolkit for *nix, and while many people don’t find much value in using antivirus software on Unix, it is very useful for email scanning. cPanel’s implementation allows end users to run scans on their home folders, public FTP folders, mail, and public_html. It’s really hard to install ClamAV…
Read moreOne user on the cPanel forums spent some time summarizing the four PHP handlers,currently available via EasyApache, into a neat little chart that makes it easy to do a quick comparison. With that user’s permission, I’m posting the chart here: Click on the image for the original-sized diagram. Thanks to Miraenda from errorcodex.com for providing…
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