Sumesh S Prabhu

Blogger by profession !!!! Linux admin by Passion !!!! Engineer by Education

CSF / LFD Alert Notifications

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CSF/LFD Alerts

  CSF/LFD notifications Many  Linux / Cpanel server owners are nowadays using Configserver Firewall (CSF). The main reason for this much extensive usage is due to the utility and simplicity it offers and also an interface that is there for some control panels like cPanel/DirectAdmin etc But one drawback is the alerts it generates and … Read more

Top 10 Advantages of cPanel Hosting

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Top 10 advantages of cPanel Hosting

Importance of Control panels in the Hosting Industry The hosting Industry is nowadays is extremely vast and there exists a tight competition between Service Providers, Control Panel Providers, and Cloud providers. Control panels are Software that acts as a front end to the software running in the server command line backend. They help server owners … Read more

How to disable portmapper service in centos 7

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How to disable portmapper services in centos 7

Sometimes you will get a notice saying like ” your server can be used or is used for abusing using portmapper services”. Here we are discussing about wow to disable portmapper service in centos 7. An open portmapper service that can be accessed from the Internet can be exploited by an attacker to perform DDoS … Read more

How to disable AutoSSL notifications to the customers cpanel account emails

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Recently many of our customers had asked us how they can disable AutoSSL notifications to the end user cpanel account emails. So we guys made a reasearch on this and got the cpanel forum link which this discussion was already going on and saw a script. Save the below to /root/autossldisable.sh, chmod 755 autossldisable.sh and then run it … Read more

MagicSpam Extension Installation fails in Plesk 17

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Recently we faced the below error while trying to install MagicSpam free version via plesk interface and got installed via command line using the rpm from the plesk download section. Since the plesk download section had too old version and plesk was showing an upgrade option and free version was not working (which I installed from rpm available at plesk )

Error while trying to install / upgrade from plesk interface is the below 
Failed
 Installation of extension has failed
 
 Execution of /usr/local/psa/tmp/modulehfmXQh/plib/scripts/pre-install.php failed with exit code 1 and the output:
 Failed to find operating system package manager rpm or dpkg.
 Contact [email protected] with full details of your installation for assistance.

Normal rpm installation and yum install was working fine.

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Error: Failed to create temporary file

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Issue ====== The apache error log shows [Wed Oct 28 23:49:30 2015] [error] [client xx.xx.xxx.xxx] ModSecurity: Input filter: Failed to create temporary file: /root/tmp/20151028-234930-VjGXSkAWQiQAA@W7VAsAAAAD-request_body-nKiZdT [hostname “www.xxxx.com”] [uri “/wp-admin/admin.php”] [unique_id “VjGXSkAWQiQAA@W7VAsAAAAD”] The issue is because the modsecurity has no access on /root/tmp directory. So while accessing /root/tmp it will show the error “Failed to create temporary … Read more