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cPanel :: Berkeley DB error: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery

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Exim logs /var/log/exim_mainlog shows Berkeley DB error.

Berkeley DB error: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
Berkeley DB error: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
Berkeley DB error: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery

Exim stores certain databases using BerkeleyDB (e.g. aliases file). These are due to corrupted Berkeley DB.

In cPanel server you can remove / move the DB and restart exim to fix.

mv /var/spool/exim/db /var/spool/exim/db.bak

/scripts/restartsrv_exim

Now confirm the errors are gone.

tail -f /var/log/exim_mainlog

cPanel : Horde login error !

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Horde login error

Horde Login shows below error :

Warning: Unknown: write failed: Disk quota exceeded (122) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of
session.save_path is correct (/var/cpanel/userhomes/cpanelhorde/sessions) in Unknown on line 0

Then try this cPanel script :

/scripts/autorepair phpapps_owner_fix

The above cPanel script will reset all the quotas for the cPanel users.

WHM locked out – cphulkd

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cPHulk Brute Force Protection prevents malicious forces from trying to access your server’s services by guessing the login password for that service. BUT sometimes it becomes troublesome when you are accessing the cPanel with incorrect password and cPanel assuming you as attacker blocks you with below message :

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This account is currently locked out because a brute force attempt was detected. Please wait 10 minutes and try again. Attempting to login again will only increase this delay. If you frequently experience this problem, we recommend having your username changed to something less generic.
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To get out of such situation you can disable cphulkd protection :

login via ssh and disable cphulkd using the command below.

# /usr/local/cpanel/bin/cphulk_pam_ctl –disable

This should allow you to login to WHM and double check your cphulk settings.

You can view IP addresses that have been blocked via the WHM interface: WHM -> Security -> Security Center -> cPHulk Brute Force Protection in the Brutes table. On that screen, you can also customize brute force protection settings.

Flush DB will remove all blocked IPs:

WHM >>  Security Center >> cPHulk Brute Force Protection >> Click on Flush DB

Well the other way to this is to remove the IP’s blocked by cPHulk from its database .

ssh to the server login as root and type the following at the prompt

[root@server:] mysql

mysql> use cphulkd;

mysql>BACKUP TABLE  brutes TO ‘/path/to/backup/directory’;

mysql> SELECT * FROM brutes WHERE `IP`=’xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx’;

mysql> DELETE FROM brutes WHERE `IP`=’xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx’;

mysql>quit

🙂

cPanel email inconsistent quota !

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If a cPanel email user quota does not match what is being reported by the system or a mail client run the following to determine how much space has been used for real:

du -hs /home/username/mail/userdomain.com/user/

then compare it with what cPanel reports for the disk usage, if they are different delete:

/home/username/mail/domain.com/user/maildirsize

finally re-login to cPanel and it should be resolved.

cPanel : WARNING: RVSiteBuilder recommend PHP maximum execution

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RVSiteBuilder warning messages under WHM :

WARNING !!
WARNING: RVSiteBuilder recommend PHP maximum execution time of each script , in 180 seconds or above.
HELP: Edit /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/etc/php.ini and change “max_execution_time=180” or above, and restart cPanel service (/usr/local/cpanel/startup).

WARNING: RVSiteBuilder recommend maximum size of POST data 105M or above.
HELP: Edit /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/etc/php.ini and change “post_max_size=105M” or above, and restart cPanel service (/usr/local/cpanel/startup).

WARNING: RVSiteBuilder recommend maximum allowed size for uploaded files that PHP will accept 100M or above.
HELP: Edit /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/etc/php.ini and change “upload_max_filesize=100M” or above, and restart cPanel service (/usr/local/cpanel/startup).

Solution :

Execute using root logins :

perl /var/cpanel/rvglobalsoft/rvsitebuilder/panelmenus/cpanel/scripts/autofixphpini.pl

Restart cPanel :

/usr/local/cpanel/startup

If again you see the warnings after cPanel restart, manually change the values for PHP under WHM >> Tweak Settings.

PHP
PHP max execution time for cPanel PHP execution in seconds (default 90)
PHP Max Post Size for cPanel PHP in Megabytes (default 55M)
cPanel PHP Register Globals (Off [unchecked] is recommended for security reasons)
PHP Max Upload Size for cPanel PHP in Megabytes (default 50M)
Loader to use for internal cPanel PHP (Use oldsourceguardian for version 1.x and 2.x)
none


ioncube


sourceguardian


oldsourceguardian

This fixes your issue.

rvsitebuilder – 404 Not Found

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If you get the next problem on rvsitebuilder running on a cpanel server:

Not Found

The server was not able to find the document
(./3rdparty/rvsitebuilder/index.php/sitebuilder/sitebuilderhome) you
requested.
Please check the url and try again. You might also want to report this
error to your webhost.

It should fix the problem to you:

Log in as root on your cpanel server and run these commands:

# rm -f /var/cpanel/rvglobalsoft/rvsitebuilder/var/INSTALL_COMPLETE.php
# rm -f /var/cpanel/rvglobalsoft/rvsitebuilder/rvsitebuilderversion.txt
# perl /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/rvsitebuilderinstaller/autoinstaller.cgi

OR

Simply run

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

Open your WHM on a web browser, https://serverip:2087

And go to root WHM -> Plugins -> RVSiteBuilder

Assigning Name server IPs manually via SSH – cPanel

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Currently cPanel will start with eth0 and work through eth1 when you assign nameservers to your IPs via WHM. Unfortunately, this will automatically choose your management IP range first, which of course are non-routable. There are two work-arounds for this:

1: Create a fake nameserver record on your private IPs, and add an A record for that nameserver to your DNS. This is the fastest option, but not the best.

2: SSH to your server and edit /etc/nameserverips manually. An example file is blelow:

10.x.x.x=0
128.177.x.x1=ns1.my_cpanel_nameserver.com
128.177.x.x2=ns2.my_cpanel_nameserver.com
128.177.x.x3=0
128.177.x.x4=0
128.177.x.x5=0

Just replace the ‘0’ after the ‘=’ with your nameserver name. In this example, the first IP (10.x.x.x) is the management IP, and not used for nameservers. The next two IPs are public and assigned to two nameservers. The last three are public and not in use.

How can I compress my CPanel domlogs log files?

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Before setting up compression of your logs you will want to have cpanel run the stats as often as possible. This is so you do not miss any stats that would have been included were your logs not compressed before stats run.

To do this, login to WHM, and click on Tweak Settings under Server Configuration in the left menu. Scroll down to Stats and Logs, and then in the field next to “Number of days between processing log files and bandwidth usage (default 1, decimal values are ok):” enter ‘.5’.

This will cause your logs to be run twice a day, and should allow you to have up to date stats.

After doing this, we can begin to setup your domlogs compression. You will need to open an ssh shell to your server to complete this.

Change directories to /etc/logrotate.d/ and find the file named httpd. You will need to copy this file to a new file in the same directory:

root@cpdemo [/etc/logrotate.d]# cp httpd domlogs
root@cpdemo [/etc/logrotate.d]# ls -la domlogs
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 390 Nov 8 21:26 domlogs
root@cpdemo [/etc/logrotate.d]#

Now you will want to edit your new file to contain the following:

/usr/local/apache/logs/*.com /usr/local/apache/logs/*.org /usr/local/apache/logs/*.net {
missingok
notifempty
size=200M
rotate 2
compress
sharedscripts
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
endscript
}

Just save your new file and you are done. Most linux distributions come default with a logrotate cronjob running nightly that will work with this configuration.

cPanel required ports list

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Cpanel required ports list

PortServiceProtocolDirectionNotes
20ftptcpinbound/outbound
21ftptcp,udpinbound/outbound
22sshtcpinbound
25smtptcpinbound/outbound
26smtptcpinbound/outbound
37rdatetcpoutbound
43whostcpoutbound
53DNStcp/udpinbound/outbound Inbound only needed if you run your own DNS server
80httptcpinbound/outbound
110pop3tcpinbound
113identtcpoutbound
143imap4tcpinbound
443httpstcpinbound
465smtptcp/ssl, tcp/udpinbound/outbound
873rsynctpc/udpoutbound
993imap4ssl tcpinbound
995pop3ssl tcpinbound
2082cpaneltcpinbound
2083cpanelssl tcpinbound
2086whmtcpinbound
2087whm ssltcpinbound
2089cp licensetcpoutbound
2095webmailtcpinbound
2096webmailssl tcpinbound
3306mysqltcpinboundOnly if you need to connect remotely
6666chattcpinbound

WHM shows all accounts as 0/unlimited quotas

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There are many possible causes of this issue, however most relate to quotas being enabled on the filesystem itself.
Some ways to check the most common errors are:

Quotas enabled in the filesysem

By default, quoatas are enabled in the kernel on all SoftLayer Linux and FreeBSD kernels. If you’ve compiled/installed your own kernel, you’ll need to verify that quotas are enabled.

— FreeBSD systems will need to add “options QUOTA” to their kernel configuration and recompile. They will then need to add “enable_quotas=”YES”” to their /etc/rc.conf file.

— To enable quotas on a certain partition, one will need to modify the /etc/fstab file by adding usrquota (or grpquota if one desires the quota to pertain to an entire group rather than an individual user) to the options column (e.g. “LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults,usrquota 0 0”).

[root@linux-test-server ~]# cat /etc/fstab
# This file is edited by fstab-sync – see ‘man fstab-sync’ for details
LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults,usrquota        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=SWAP-sda2         swap                    swap    pri=0,defaults        0 0
/usr/tmpDSK             /tmp                    ext3    defaults,noauto        0 0
/tmp             /var/tmp                    ext3    defaults,bind,noauto        0 0
[root@linux-test-server ~]#

— Once those entries are added, a reboot of the server should resolve the issue.

Run /scripts/fixquotas

Cpanel has it’s own tools to repair the quotas for it’s accounts. the command
#/scripts/fixquotas
run through ssh may resolve the issue.

Repquota

The command
#repquota -ua
will tell you if quotas are being reported for OS users at all.

Quotacheck

The command
#quotacheck -fv /home
will display the quotas for that filesystem, however the partition has to be unmounted first. It’s best to do this from Single User mode.