Downgrade Nightmare ... and now DA won't start!

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webbasica

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After a few months running this server, optimizing became inminent. So I went here to read about how to do it.

Then, I searched each step in this forum, so I'd follow the DA-way ..

1- the my.cnf went fine
2- Turck MMCache was no biggie

But then, I read that downgrading to Apache 1.3 would be a good idea ... so I followed the DA Guide:
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=54

That's when my problems started. After the install was finished and I tried restarting apache. Then an error in ips.conf, about the SuexecUserGroup

After a while reading about it in this forum (and google), I rebooted the box.

After the reboot, the error was now in the httpd.conf file .. still about the SuexecUserGroup

I read a little (http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=441)
and I figure that changing the Suexec line will help, so I do this:

(ips.conf)
User admin
Group admin
#SuexecUserGroup admin admin

(httpd.conf)
User user
Group user
#SuexecUserGroup user user

And it worked!! My site was back online, apache restarted and everything was fine at last. Except for Directadmin. Now, the domain:2222 address won't resolve.

I give up! The site is up and I'm off to sleep. Maybe tomorrow I will solve the issue about DA not resolving ..

any ideas?

**edit:
I tried this too:
mv /usr/local/directadmin/dataskq /usr/local/directadmin/dataskq.stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/directadmin stop
/usr/local/directadmin/directadmin d
mv /usr/local/directadmin/dataskq.stop /usr/local/directadmin/dataskq

http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8928
 
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Is it a DNS problem?
so your domein isn't resolving to an ip address?
or is your directadmin daemon not running?
 
I woke up today and the site was down (I run this server only for one site www.bacanalnica.com )

I think I messed up apache good!

I'm going to use the apache custom build system .. starting now!
 
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Did it, rebooted and nothing.

My top command says:

Code: 
50 processes: 48 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.0% user   0.2% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  99.8% idle
Mem:  1030932k av,   55168k used,  975764k free,       0k shrd,    6508k buff
                     40328k actv,     132k in_d,     280k in_c
Swap: 2047992k av,       0k used, 2047992k free                   28732k cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
 2112 root      15   0   996  996   808 R     0.1  0.0   0:00   0 top
    1 root      15   0   480  480   428 S     0.0  0.0   0:04   0 init
    2 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 keventd
    3 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kapmd
    4 root      34  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:02   0 ksoftirqd_CPU0
    9 root      25   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 bdflush
    5 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kswapd
    6 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kscand/DMA
    7 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kscand/Normal
    8 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kscand/HighMem
   10 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kupdated
   11 root      24   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 mdrecoveryd
   19 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kjournald
  609 root      21   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kjournald
 1125 root      15   0   572  572   488 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 syslogd
 1129 root      15   0   464  464   400 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 klogd
 1147 rpc       20   0   568  568   492 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 portmap
 1166 rpcuser   25   0   704  704   624 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 rpc.statd
 1233 root      24   0   496  496   440 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 apmd
 1877 root      15   0  1512 1512  1276 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 sshd
 1891 root      24   0   908  908   752 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 xinetd
 1900 root      15   0   276  276   240 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 da-popb4smtp
 1918 mail      23   0  1808 1808  1488 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 exim
 1957 ftp       15   0  1180 1180   816 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 proftpd
 1967 root      25   0   544  544   476 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 vm-pop3d
 1968 root      25   0   544  544   476 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 vm-pop3d
 1972 root      25   0   544  544   476 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 vm-pop3d
 1973 root      25   0   544  544   476 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 vm-pop3d
 1974 root      25   0   544  544   476 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 vm-pop3d
 1975 root      25   0   544  544   476 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 vm-pop3d
 1976 root      25   0   544  544   476 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 vm-pop3d
 1977 root      25   0   544  544   476 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 vm-pop3d
 1978 root      25   0   544  544   476 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 vm-pop3d
 1979 root      25   0   544  544   476 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 vm-pop3d
 1980 root      25   0   544  544   476 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 vm-pop3d
 1986 root      15   0   592  592   524 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 crond
 1996 root      25   0  1200 1200  1028 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 mysqld_safe
 2026 mysql     24   0  1256 1252   832 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 mysqld
 2033 xfs       25   0  2704 2700   904 S     0.0  0.2   0:00   0 xfs
 2051 mysql     15   0  1256 1252   832 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 mysqld
 2052 mysql     25   0  1256 1252   832 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 mysqld
 2053 daemon    25   0   540  540   476 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 atd
 2061 root      24   0   404  404   352 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 mingetty
 2062 root      24   0   404  404   352 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 mingetty
 2063 root      24   0   404  404   352 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 mingetty

I don't see apache. Oh yea, and Email is down too.
 
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well .. I lost all hope. Tried reinstalling apache 2. And nothing. Everytime I try to restart (or stop) directadmin it says [FAILED].

Apache seems to be working ok, but nothing will work. Seems as if dns were down.
 
try the following:

Startup 2 SSH sessions to the server
in the first type
# tail -f /var/log/messages

Keep your eye on this while you execute commands in the 2nd SSH session...

In the 2nd session type

# service named start
# service httpd start
# service directadmin start

Post the output in the /var/logs/messages file here if you still have problems that you cannot solve.

Regards,
Onno Vrijburg
 
Code: 
Sep 27 17:30:48 da sshd(pam_unix)[1938]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Sep 27 17:57:06 da kernel: ** IN_UDP DROP ** IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:e0:18:0a:b0:26:00:02:85:0d:7c:80:08:00 SRC=202.111.173.42 DST=69.61.52.242 LEN=346 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=34 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=58254 DPT=1026 LEN=326 
Sep 27 17:57:06 da kernel: ** IN_UDP DROP ** IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:e0:18:0a:b0:26:00:02:85:0d:7c:80:08:00 SRC=202.111.173.42 DST=69.61.52.242 LEN=346 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=34 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=58254 DPT=1027 LEN=326 
Sep 27 18:10:12 da sshd(pam_unix)[1938]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Sep 27 18:10:22 da named[2727]: starting BIND 9.2.1 -u named
Sep 27 18:10:22 da named[2727]: using 1 CPU
Sep 27 18:10:22 da named[2727]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Sep 27 18:10:23 da named[2727]: no IPv6 interfaces found
Sep 27 18:10:23 da named[2727]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
Sep 27 18:10:23 da named[2727]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 69.61.52.242#53
Sep 27 18:10:23 da named: named startup succeeded
Sep 27 18:10:23 da named[2727]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
Sep 27 18:10:23 da named[2727]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loading master file named.local: file not found
Sep 27 18:10:23 da named[2727]: zone bacanalnica.com/IN: loaded serial 2005042801
Sep 27 18:10:23 da named[2727]: zone da.bacanalnica.com/IN: loaded serial 2005030200
Sep 27 18:10:23 da named[2727]: zone localhost/IN: loading master file localhost.zone: file not found
Sep 27 18:10:23 da named[2727]: running
Sep 27 18:10:23 da named[2727]: zone da.bacanalnica.com/IN: sending notifies (serial 2005030200)
Sep 27 18:10:23 da named[2727]: zone bacanalnica.com/IN: sending notifies (serial 2005042801)
Sep 27 18:11:38 da directadmin: directadmin startup succeeded
 
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Either no servces at all are running, or something is firewalling off everything.

I found the IP# of the server; it's listed for ns1 at the gtld-servers.

A traceroute ends here:

globalcompass.ge2-1.br01.atl01.pccwbtn.net (63.216.31.134)

Unless that's the address of your immeidate upstream router, then for some reason you're being blocked from the 'net.

Or you've taken the server down for a complete rebuild.

Jeff
 
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