Administrator Server Settings Not Applying

[jpaolini]

Hello everyone,

I'm new to DA - just ordered a new server with it yesterday - but I'm really liking it so far! Nice and fast, easy to navigate and really works very well.

However, I'm a little confused by something. On my server, I can't seem to get the 'Server Settings' to actually change when I enter new information and click 'save' below. What I'm looking to change is under 'Admin-Level >> Extra Features >> Administrator Settings >> Server Settings' and I'd like to tweak just about everything under that section. When I click 'Save' after adjusting those settings, it says the changes will be executed in a minute by the Task Queue, but nothing ever happens. I'm not sure DA is even restarting - but I have tried restarting the DA service from DA itself as well but that did not help either.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Any thoughts for me?


Thanks,
Joe

 

[nobaloney]

Check your cronjobs to see if dataskq is registered to run every minute:

# cd /etc/cron.d/
# grep -R dataskq *

Jeff

 

[jpaolini]

Thanks for the response, Jeff!

Here's what I get:

# cd /etc/cron.d
# grep -R dataskq *
directadmin_cron:* * * * * root /usr/local/directadmin/dataskq

I'm not sure what that output means to be honest..

 

[jpaolini]

Looks like it's saving now, but only if I manually restart DA from the shell. I guess that means it's not really restarting when it says it will - how can I fix that?

 

[nobaloney]

Joe, the cronjob is right, but obviously something is wrong. It's probably a permissions issue. Unless you're familiar with systems administration and the internals of DirectAdmin your best bet is probably to have your hosting company (the company that supplied you with the server with DirectAdmin installed) solve the problem for you.

Jeff

 

[jpaolini]

Alright, that sounds good. If they are able to fix it and give me an exact reason why it happened, I'll post the result.

Thanks again for the help Jeff!

 

[jpaolini]

It did end up being a security/permissions issue. My host fixed it and we rebooted the server to ensure everything would be fine and it was.

Thanks again Jeff for pointing me in the right direction.