Changing contact info from shell

LoadFactor

• August 22, 2022 21:39

We were managing a server for a client who has decided to merge his infrastructures, we are neither the old nor the new provider of servers but were managing the old server. This means the cPanel license on the server has expired and all of the sites are now hosted elsewhere. For some reason unknown to us they have not actually decomissioned the server, which means we are receiving a barrage of notifications about things we are no longer concerned about through PushBullet. How can I make this stop without accessing WHM, which correctly just says the license is expired, go fish?

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  quietFinn

  • August 23, 2022 11:27

  Maybe this:

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  LoadFactor

  • August 23, 2022 12:34

  Thanks, but sadly no good. Doesn't apply to root, has no effect on PushBullet.

  Maybe this:

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • August 23, 2022 14:34

  suspend_outgoing_email, as noted, wouldn't do anyting for root notifications. Usually, server notifications that cPanel sends are sent to the root user contact of the server, which is pointed to a real email address on most systems. This address is typically stored in the file /root/.forward. Can you try editing that to see if that resolves the issue?

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  LoadFactor

  • August 23, 2022 15:06

  I have done that and it helped. But it still has our PushBullet token and is happily sending notifications. Sadly, we're using one token network wide so wiping this one out would require refreshing the token everywhere else. That's something I'd prefer to avoid. Going to issue one token per server going forward, but that's not much help right now.

  suspend_outgoing_email, as noted, wouldn't do anything for root notifications. Usually, server notifications that cPanel sends are sent to the root user contact of the server, which is pointed to a real email address on most systems. This address is typically stored in the file /root/.forward. Can you try editing that to see if that resolves the issue?

  
  

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • August 23, 2022 15:30

  I'm not going to have any thoughts on PushBullet on my end, but I'm glad at least the change helped somewhat.

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  LoadFactor

  • August 23, 2022 21:02

  So in summary and if I'm understanding correctly, nobody knows where the PushBullet token is stored? Since the server isn't being used for anything else I guess I can do a full disk scan and report back when I find it.

  I'm not going to have any thoughts on PushBullet on my end, but I'm glad at least the change helped somewhat.

  
  

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