You may see error “Fatal! Write failure” error message while adding email forwarders OR setting a catchall email address from cPanel >> “Email Accounts” section. The error is: Fatal! Write Failure: /etc/valiases/domainname.tld. Ignore any messages of success this can only result in failure! The reason is the /etc/valiases/domainname.tld file is missing OR having incorrect permissions. [...]

While adding a cron job from cPanel, you may see an error message as /usr/bin/crontab permissions are wrong (6755). Please set to 4755. The reason is quite simple, the “crontab” executable have incorrect permissions as stated in the error message. The permissions of /usr/bin/crontab should be 4755. root@server [~]# ls -la /usr/bin/crontab -rwsr-xr-x 1 root [...]

The error message “make: *** [ffmpeg_frame.lo] Error 1″ is received while compiling ffmpeg-php and the reason is  the misspelled file name. If you notice, “ffmpeg_frame.lo” file is missing from the ffmpeg-php directory, instead a file called “ffmpeg_frame.loT” is present which shouldn’t be there. The solution is to rename the file from ffmpeg_frame.loT to ffmpeg_frame.lo. Go [...]

When you use chown to change ownership of a file or directory, it will work but with Symlink (Created by using lncommand), you can’t do that. When you do it, it will fail and you may not know that since there is no error message or anything to let you know. So, to change ownership [...]

You may come across the “Failed domain creation” error message while adding a domain from the Plesk control panel. Failed domain creation: Unable to update domain data: Failed setting of domain parameters: Cannot change Webmail on domain: webmail 0: DomainPropertiesUIPointer.php:267 DomainPropertiesUIPointer->accessItem_create(string ‘POST’) 1: DomainPropertiesUIPointer.php:59 DomainPropertiesUIPointer->accessItem(string ‘POST’, NULL null) 2: UIPointer.php:596 UIPointer->access(string ‘POST’) 3: plesk.php:38 The [...]

You may notice an error message “Unable to create PHostingManager object:Unable to set current ip address: IP address is missing” in Plesk when trying to manage a domain from Domains >> domainname.tld. The error appears when an IP assigned to a domain is not assigned to the ‘Owner’ of the domain. To fix the issue, [...]

If you receive “virtual.db: No such file or directory” error message while adding a domain in Plesk control panel, you need to create the virtual.db file and place it in the proper location. The complete error message looks like: Failed domain creation: Unable to update domain data: mailmng failed: Fatal error: plesk::mail::postfix::PostfixConfigurationError(postmap:fatal:open database /var/spool/postfix/plesk/virtual.db: No [...]

You may come across with a “numiptent” error message while restarting iptables or whatever firewall (say csf) you have installed on your VPS. The error appear as follows: The VPS iptables rule limit (numiptent) is too low (200/250) – stopping firewall to prevent iptables blocking all connections There is a limit on the number of [...]

While removing a package using “rpm -e “, you may run into “error: packagename specifies multiple packages” error message, for example: $ rpm -e mysql-devel error: “mysql-devel” specifies multiple packages This is because the packages of both the architectures, 32 bit and 64 bit are installed on the server i.e. mysql-devel.i386 mysql-devel.x86_64 CentOS, Fedora will [...]

You may receive the error message while starting a VPS on OpenVZ server. vzquota : (error) Quota getstat syscall for id 101: Inappropriate ioctl for device vzquota init failed [3] This is a typical Quota error message on OpenVZ servers while starting a VPS. The message indicates that you need to initialize quota on the [...]