Yum fails to run returning that /var/log/up2date is a directory; Causing "EasyApache 4" not to load in WHM

Symptoms

If EasyApache 4 fails to open inside of WHM and it returns the error YUM encountered errors outside of EasyApache 4. Please attempt to run this command via CLI or using WHM's Terminal.

yum update

If you encounter this error below,  please follow our workaround mentioned later in the article:

# yum check-update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, rhnplugin, universal-hooks
Config error: Is a directory: '/var/log/up2date'

Description 

This error above suggests that /var/log/up2date is a directory, but normally this should be a file. It might be possible that /var/log/up2date was changed to a directory as a result of disk corruption, but regardless of the cause you can resolve this issue by moving this directory out of the way and creating it again as a file.

Workaround

Sign into SSH as root, or you can use WHM's "Terminal" feature. Perform the following command to move the /var/log/up2date directory out of the way:

mv -v /var/log/up2date{,.copy}

Then perform the following command to create the file, and rebuild the yum cache:

touch /var/log/up2date

yum makecache

After making these changes, Easy Apache 4 should load in the WHM interface normally.