If your Windows Updates suddenly stopped working lately with the following error : 2024-01 Security Update for Microsoft server operating system version 21H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5034439) Status: Download error – 0x80070643 This error could be related to : – Corrupted Windows component (run sfc /scannow) ; – Errors on filesystem (run chkdsk /F) ;… Read More »
If you recently changed your vCenter name (FQDN or IP) and use Veeam for backup, you need to tell Veeam about it, otherwise your backups will fail after this change. Fortunately, a built-in Veeam PowerShell command is available to do so. (The example below assume you’d like to change your vCenter name from 192.168.10.200 to… Read More »
If you receive the following bounce back some time after sending an email from your Exim/cPanel SMTP server : all hosts for ‘recipientdomain.tld’ have been failing for a long time (and retry time not reached) Using the “exinext” command, you can have a clear view of the issue : [root@sendersmtpsrv log]# exinext recipientdomain.tld Transport: smtp1.recipientdomain.tld… Read More »
I recently encountered the following behavior on VMware ESXi, where the following error was showing up : Host storage status But everything was showing all good on the iDRAC side and no apparent errors checking the datastore view in vCenter. Then, looking at the Hardware Health on the host : Monitor > Hardware Health >… Read More »
R1Soft retention policy does not match the settings configured initially (they are very different and above the retention point limit of 21)? There is a known bug prior version 6.18.1, please update the server software to latest (v6.18.1 or above) and the retention policy will be shown as per your initial settings.
If your cPanel accounts are missing the “FTP Accounts” option, there are four common factors that can cause this and with the suggested approach for each possible issues below, in order : 1. FTP Accounts is disabled in the account “Features / CPaddons” ; Go to WHM > Packages > Feature Manager and select the… Read More »
If you were running OpenVPN 2.x on Debian 10 successfully and it suddently broke with the following error after upgrading to Debian 11 : Oct 21 11:34:12 ovpnserver openvpnas[32211]: Traceback (most recent call last): Oct 21 11:34:12 ovpnserver openvpnas[32211]: File “<string>”, line 1, in <module> Oct 21 11:34:12 ovpnserver openvpnas[32211]: File “<frozen zipimport>”, line 241,… Read More »
Running into the following error installing cPanel on a new AlmaLinux server? perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (“C”). Can’t locate lib.pm in @INC (you may need to install the lib module) (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.32 /usr/local/share/perl5/5.32 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5) at /home/cPanelInstall/selfgz41082/install line 17. BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /home/cPanelInstall/selfgz41082/install line 17. This is… Read More »
Encountering the following error in your Linux syslog/message or mysql error log? mariadbd[16354]: 2023-09-08 22:36:13 2520 [ERROR] Invalid (old?) table or database name ‘lost+found’ mariadbd[16354]: message repeated 3 times: [ 2023-09-08 22:36:13 2520 [ERROR] Invalid (old?) table or database name ‘lost+found’] This is most likely because your MySQL/MariaDB database folder (eg: /var/lib/mysql) is within a… Read More »
Receiving the following alert/error from your cPanel server? The service “mailman” appears to be down. Try first to manually restart the service from WHM, or by SSH using the following command : /scripts/restartsrv_mailman You’ll most likely end up with the following error/output : [root@hostname root]# /scripts/restartsrv_mailman Waiting for “mailman” to start ……info [restartsrv_mailman] systemd failed… Read More »