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Turn Off su_PHP

In my previous blog post : suPHP, mod_php and phpsuexec I told you why we use su_PHP on Cpanel servers and what are the benefits etc.Now, If you find a reason for disabling for an annoying customer on one of your servers, what you do? Simple, just add the following...
Man Booker Prize goes to “The White Tiger” Aravind Adiga

Man Booker Prize goes to “The White Tiger” Aravind Adiga

Image source: timesonline.co.uk Aravind Adiga made it to Booker Prize with his first novel. Eager to know whats in it. Following links are giving more information about Aravind, His book and Booker Prize. Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker Prize with The White Tiger The...
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Cpanel: CPPop authentication failed

Unable to pop emails on your Cpanel server? Check /var/log/messages : Oct 14 22:48:51 server popa3d[13698]: Didn’t attempt authentication Oct 14 22:48:55 server popa3d(pam_unix)[13772]: check pass; user unknown Oct 14 22:48:55 server popa3d(pam_unix)[13772]:...
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JumpStart Morning

I was eager to take up the new work which came in my way last night and headed toward my office. Once I reached, I found that the server on which I had attempted had some issues with the quota. The error looks as follows root@server [/]# quota -s username quota:...
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Public key for xyz.rpm is not installed

When you try installing some packages via yum or up2date you might come across this error. Public key for xyz.rpm is not installed To resolve this issue, you should download the GPG key and import that into your RPM database. On RHEL servers you can find the GPG key...
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No module named rpm

Unable to run yum upgrade? You might have tried upgrading your OS just like me and broken rpm packages on the server. You find the find the following error on screen when you try using yum after that mess up. # yum update python There was a problem importing one of...
CentOS upgrade from 3.9 to 4.6

CentOS upgrade from 3.9 to 4.6

I had lots of fun upgrading an old CentOS box from 3.9 to 4.6. Faced problems with udev, kernel and openssh I will try logging few issues here on my blog which might turn out to be useful for others while attempting the upgrades. UnixCraft link might give you some...