Recent content by duncan

Hi All, Up until a few weeks I had recursive DNS enabled on my system - not for any particular reason, but it must have always been like that, and never caused any trouble. That stopped in February when my bandwidth consumption exploded as this 'vulnerability' was taken advantage of. Lesson...

I was careless with manually changing the owner & group for some files, and accidentally changed everything on the system by using "/" while logged in as root. I immediately changed everything back to root:root, thinking that might be better. I then ran the DA user/group update script. User...

I ran an offsite (FTP) "admin backup" tonight, and a few mins later got an email about an automatic support notification. Clicked on the DA ticket, would not open - a bad sign. Logged in with SSH and saw that 100% of my disk space (10GB) was used. Prior to running the backup, it was at 47%...

Hi Everyone, I am running php5-cgi with Custombuild. I switched to this setup a few years ago as my previous version of DA was compromised due to a user's Joomla installation that was hacked. The hacker then gained access to all domains that were running on my machine. So I read php5-cgi was...

My server was rebooted, and now named won't restart. [root@vps ~]# service named start Starting named: Error in named configuration: zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 42 zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 1997022700 zone vps.site.ca/IN: loaded serial 2009012000 zone site.ca/IN: loaded...

Hi Everyone, My system crons were running fine yesterday, when they suddenly stopped working. I realized the crontab was stopped. I tried to restart, and had no luck: Here is the relevent entries in the cron log which shows when things stopped running: Any idea what the problem is, or how...

In case anyone else comes across this... On a fresh DA install, I was getting the following error in my mail log: Tuns out I had a spam filter which ended in $. Removed the dollar sign, saved the filter, restarted exim, and processed the mail que - problem solved. Hope it helps someone else.

Hi Everyone, I am running and I get the following error: There are also TONS of these types of errors: So I went ahead and tried to update openssl on the machine: Any ideas what the snag could be? I am running CentOS 5. Thanks!

Hi Everyone, Just did a fresh install, am trying to run PHP 5 over CGI, with custombuild. All PHP pages are returning a 500 message. Apache Log says: Rebooting Apache says (multiple times): Warning: SuexecUserGroup directive requires SUEXEC wrapper. I went through all the hppd.conf files...

Hi Everyone, My VPS server was recently hacked, using a Joomla exploit. All the sites have now been upgraded and meticulously inspected. I believe all the website content is now safe, clean, and secure. However, I can only assume the kernel was also exploited, so I am moving to a new VPS to be...

Hi Everyone, For some reason my system backups have suddenly stopped working. I get the email saying that the backup is done, and it lists all the directories as being completed - but the backup directory just includes a date folder that is empty: [root@vps 01-15-09]# ls -a I checked my disk...

Hello, I am migrating from one hosting server to another. I am in the process of installing DA on the new box, but am getting the following error. Could it be related to the fact that the installed server is CentOS and my license is Fedora? Would that make a difference? (I know I will have to...

Most of the Joomla sites on my server were hacked this morning. Their index.php pages were all changed. Aside from a few other changes, they otherwise appear to remained untouched. Oddly enough one other (non Joomla) site was affected - it's htaccess file was changed, but nothing else. The...

I have been running DA for a year or two with no problems - but suddenly I am getting the following error whenever I try to add a new user. I have not made any system changes for months. Any idea what can be causing this? I am running Fedora 4. Unix User created successfully User's System...

My server is running fine, and has been for months - but I get this warning every night and it's a bit annoying. When I first set up the server I used one host name, but later changed it. Everything that I can see contains the correct hostname, but obviously the system is finding a discrepancy...