TechFiz on July 11th, 2009

Unable to login to hypervm for some reason? Forgot password link now working? Try this.

#cd /usr/local/lxlabs/hypervm/httpdocs
#lphp.exe ../bin/common/resetpassword.php master <new password>
#/etc/init.d/hypervm restart
Now you will be able to login to hypervm with the new password.
Same thing works for lxadmin admin account.

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TechFiz on June 9th, 2009

A brilliant software engineer, Founder of LxLabs.com, creator of HyperVM – optimized virtualization technology which runs on both Xen and OpenVZ, “Host In a Box” solution LxAdmin/Kloxo for Web hosting companies, server owners, resellers – K.T Ligesh(32) commited suicide last night (8th June,2009) at his residence located in H.S.R Layout, Bangalore.
Yesterday night I was discussing [...]

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TechFiz on June 7th, 2009

HyperVM/Kloxo users are here by alerted to patch their installations by running the update script by LxLabs team.
Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in hyperVM and Lxadmin/Kloxo. It is recommended that you update your hyperVM/Kloxo systems to the latest version, as soon as possible.
Details of the vulnerabilities will be posted in the coming days in our [...]

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TechFiz on March 4th, 2009

Editing /etc/php.ini, or enabling few options via LxAdmin might not get work in LxAdmin servers. I faced this problem while trying to enable error logging. Whlie I was digging for the reasons, I found that each domain is provided with a separate php.ini under /home/httpd/domainname.com folder (replace domainname.com with domain’s name). php.ini found under this [...]

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TechFiz on December 14th, 2008

If you find that the /etc/hosts file getting over written (I have found this happening in Virtuzzo and HyperVM servers already) ensure that you add the additional entries above the following comment line which you see in /etc/hosts file.
# Auto-generated hostname. Please do not remove this comment.

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TechFiz on October 8th, 2008

To trouble shoot this issue, first get into the server from the Hardware node so that you can quickly resolve this issue as a VPS Administrator.
You might face few issues which I have reported in my earlier posts :
Unable to open pty: No such file or directory
tty device is not owned by group `tty’
If any [...]

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