Backup errors and more

krismaguire

• July 18, 2015 05:14

Hi folks, New to CPanel but not to servers and web hosting, I was wondering if I could get some help with an error I'm getting during my backups. Backups are completing successfully but I'd rather not be getting this error. WARN: Warnings(s) encountered in tar during archiving: /home/maguskrr/.cpanel/live-engine-connector-y2cRXMhTF6.sock: Cannot open file: No such device or address at /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/pkgacct line 1729 I'm also struggling to get disk quotas activated, I can't see disk usage per account in WHM or my customers cpanel end. The only way for me to see disk usage is by looking at my server status. I should mention I'm on Cent OS 7, WHM & CPanel 11.5 build 25. Any help would be appreciated!

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  24x7server

  • July 18, 2015 18:02

  Hello, Have you enable disk quota on your server ? Please check it at

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  krismaguire

  • July 18, 2015 18:41

  Hi there, Thanks for the response, I was hoping a staff member would have responded by now so may have to consider opening a ticket. I have tried enabling quotas through the 'Initial Quota Setup' to no avail. I just get similar errors 'no such directory' etc etc. I have just recently moved from a free panel to CPanel as my customers were requesting features found only in CPanel, I would have thought a panel I pay $20 per month for would have things like this working out of the box - this is something I've never encountered before. My clients find it odd that I can't provide a way for them to roughly tell how much disk space they're using. Do you have any ideas on what I can do to rectify this and why I'm being shown errors when I try to enable quotas?

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  Infopro

  • July 18, 2015 20:04

  I'm not sure what this file is, can't find it on any of my cPanel servers. Plugin of some sort I guess: .cpanel/live-engine-connector-y2cRXMhTF6.sock If you see it there on the account, download it for safe keeping and delete the file. Worse that can happen the plugin whatever it is, quits working. Quotas should work out of the box, if enabled.

  I have tried enabling quotas through the 'Initial Quota Setup' to no avail. I just get similar errors 'no such directory' etc etc.

  
  etc etc is of no use in helping you. Those exact errors might give us some clues to the issue.

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  krismaguire

  • July 18, 2015 20:23

  Hi Infopro, Thanks for the response, the only plugin installed is WHMXtra, if this is causing a problem I have no problem removing it :) I have tried to enable quotas but forgot to copy-paste the output, I can't try to re-enable it as every time I do all of customer websites go offline with a 503 service temporarily unavailable. I have tried three times and had the same problem each time.

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  TerranceR

  • July 19, 2015 03:27

  Hello, You may want to open a ticket regarding the quotas issue, their could be a couple of different factors why quotas isn't working. What is the output of cat /etc/fstab and the output of mount as well.

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  krismaguire

  • July 19, 2015 18:03

  Hi Terrance, Thanks for your reply, I'd like to say I've now resolved this issue and thought I'd share my fix. This is a working fix on a Linode machine, CentOS 7 64 BIT, CPanel and WHM 11.5 Build 25. First I ran:
  ll /dev/root
  From there I was able to see that /dev/root wasn't mounting properly so then ran:
  ln -s /dev/sda /dev/root
  This linked my main disk area to root and then finally ran:
  /scripts/fixquotas
  Problem solved, happy chappy and now I'm happy with CPanel and so are my customers!

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  krismaguire

  • July 19, 2015 18:36

  Scratch that, changes I made above are cleared after reboot. Will have to find a way to make them permanent.

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 23, 2015 15:00

  Hello :) I've seen this reported before from users with servers hosted by Linode. Have you tried contacting Linode to see if they can offer a solution for this? Thank you.

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  krismaguire

  • July 23, 2015 17:16

  Hi Michael, I thought about doing that but throwing someone else into the mix just makes it (possibly) more complicated. I had to do a reboot and just entered the commands again at startup, everything works no problem! Considering how often I reboot my server, I don't mind entering these commands at startup to get it to function properly. Just glad everything is working fine now, I've spent the last few days tweaking the server and it seems moving from the old reseller plan to my own VPS was a good move for websites performance wise. Sites are now averaging test scores of 99% faster than all other tested sites along at pingdom.com, rapid! Is there any particular suppliers you'd recommend specifically for CPanel servers? I have another separate issue I'll have to post into a different forum (not a big one), just one I'd like to fix :) Thanks for the reply!

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  cPanelMichael

  • August 06, 2015 17:48

  Is there any particular suppliers you'd recommend specifically for CPanel servers?

  
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