Just a bunch of crap I've learned about cPanel
Jesse Chan-Norris // jcn @ pith.org

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23 November 2005

http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=46268&highlight=named.conf

When adding a new domain last night on my CentOS cPanel server, I completely wiped out my named.conf file leaving me with a weird file that included the one new domain that I added and the telltale line: 

named.conf for Red Hat caching-nameserver

at the top of it. This had the effect of taking all of our domains offline for several hours. Poking through the forums, it seems that the problem is that the RHEL/CentOS caching-nameserver package interferes with regular named (or something like that) and the solution is to add the caching nameserver to the yum exclusions line.

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19 August 2005

http://bugzilla.cpanel.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1360

The tweak that lets you set "max pop connections per hour" for your users will fail fairly ungracefully with an error message that looks like:

Aug 14 20:40:18 grace cpanelpop[32261]: Connection from host=xx.xx.xx.xx to ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Aug 14 20:40:18 grace cpanelpop[32261]: Password failure for user=USERNAME homedir= passwd=/etc//shadow 
Aug 14 20:40:18 grace cpanelpop[32261]: User not found user=USERNAME homedir=/home/RANDOMUSER passwd=/home/RANDOMUSER/etc//shadow 
Aug 14 20:40:18 grace cpanelpop[32261]: Session Closed host=xx.xx.xx.xx ip=xx.xx.xx.xx user= realuser= totalxfer=138 

This manifests itself as users being asked their passwords at random times if they've been checking their email more than the number of times allowed in the hour (I had chosen 60). The fix is to increase the number of connections they can make in an hour or just disable that feature all together.

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