You own the domain, but do you also own the vps/server the domain is running on?
If you are logged in as admin, this problem should not occur, I can't recognize that command. Are you using WHMCS or something?
Maybe this helps or otherwise somebody else has to take a look at this for you.
Dear DA guru's I'm using whmcs with an reseller account to connect to the server but it gives me below error in the API debug log with an admin account it works fine, is there a way to give the reseller this authority ?? Array ( [error] => 1 [text] => You cannot execute that command...
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