A head’s up …
After last night’s update, I had to reboot the box via SSH to get any services to respond.
JB
JB, Could you elaborate? Were they ‘off’? What happened when you tried to restart them either via NodeWorx or ssh? Any other info you can provide?
Thanks,
Chris
Services displayed as “on” and were able to be restarted manually – but with no result (meaning, webs, email and FTP still unresponsive).
A reboot brought things back to life.
On a not-so-side note, I’ve got an open ticket with the NOC to check on the status of the network card of that box, as it’s the same one randomly dropping the IP interfaces. It’s very possilbe these things could be related.
JB
This is similar to my HTTPS not working yesterday, doing a netstat showed that apache was just not listening on port 443, doing a reboot fixed it, this was after an update yesterday morning 3/1 (NOT today).
The update was a bunch of XFree86 stuff.
Ok first I was very happy that AWStats was offered as an alternative, however a bit dissaopinted that it where not able to show previous days (time), using already stored log files.
Anyways that I can live with, but that a process called “awstats.pl” is eating up my most of my servers CPU time, for approximately two hours every afternoon, cpu utilization goes from 10% to 80%, I am not sure I can or will live with.
How do I turn off AwStats?
How do I turn off AwStats?
Edit /home/interworx/iworx.ini
Search for:
[stats.awstats]
enabled="1"
change to:
[stats.awstats]
enabled="0"
Chris
Thanks Chris!
Anyone else seeing this cpu usage?
Is that function really so CPU intensive, or is it just because my sites are quite busy with visitors?
Ok I opened the file via SSH and edited with Notepad. However there where all these “funky” characters in Notepad instead line breaks. This I ignored found the text, edited, saved, and uploaded. Then Interworx would not work.
Then I opened the file again, in Notepad, copied and pasted into Word, and back into Notepad, so the funky line breaks where treated in Notepad as regular line breaks, everything was not on the same line, uploaded, and Interworx still does not work?
Should that ini file not be a regular text file?
It’s cpu intensive RWF, no doubt about it. All of our boxes see the same.
Chris
I wouldn’t copy it back / forth RWF even while pasting just to keep errors to a minimum. Just edit it in place with emacs, vi, pico etc.
Chris
You should just edit the files with SSH using the VI editor. If you download them to windows you can use it with notepad i think (not word or wordpad).
As to the stats themselves, mine run at 8.30 ish in the morning at the same time as my update and i have about 99% CPU load for 5 mins or so.
I would really like to know how we can adjust the times of the update and stats run at.
This is how I 've done it succesful before with fx. webalizer.conf. Anways too late for advising not to copy and paste, and I tried just downloading and editing the file first.
Now the file is apparently messed up, and I do not have any of the apps you talk about. How do I fix the file? It seems to be in plain text format, but is apparently not understood by Interworx.
Thanks for your advise, however my SSH program (SSH Secure Shell v.3.1.0) does not have anything called VI-Editor, never seen it, and I did a search in the help section.
And I did open the ini file in Notepad, but like I said everything was on one line with funky characters between was should be lines.
This is first text line of the error text I get now when trying to go to Interworx.
Warning: parse_ini_file(): Cannot open ‘/home/interworx/iworx.ini’ for reading in /home/interworx/include/INIConfig.php on line 44
I guess I have to open a support ticket about this. I just can’t believe that this file is not plain text that could be understood by Notepad.
RWF, the permissions are almost certainly the issue. Log into the server as root and run the following command:
chown iworx.iworx /home/interworx/iworx.ini
chmod 600 /home/interworx/iworx.ini
Paul
From the shell you just type “vi filename” and it will open the editor.
It is not with your SSH program it is in Linux and almost every Linux distro has
VI.
Another good practice is to make a backup of any config file before you edit it so if you mess up you can copy it back over from the backup file.
cp interworx.ini interworx.ini.bak_3-2-05
then if you mess up you just cp interworx.ini.back_3-2-05 interworx.ini
Thanks! Actually the first line was enough to get thing to work again 
Though the issue was fixing the permissions, just wanted to make another comment. While the file is plain text, and is understood by Notepad, Unix and Windows use different characters to represent a newline. This is what caused the “funky” characters and everything to appear on a single line in Notepad.
Good morning,
Appears 1.9 was released 02-27-2005. One of my servers that set to auto update, never updated. I even refreshed and ran install in the updates section in nodeworx, but still nothing. I havent tried yum update yet. Wondering if there was a reason it wasn’t updated.
Other problem, is my AMD64 server, interworx appears to be broken. Perhaps needs to be recompiled for the update?
Thanks,
Hello 
Just a question relating to the 1.9 release :
- Did you upgrade the “create siteworx account” parameters’ API to have the language option, spam option, … ?
About the bandwidth limit and the burstable option (not sure it is related to the 1.9) :
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when a user exceeds the limit of bandwidth there is no mail alarm sent to the administrator of the box. It’s a shame, as I can’t check all account every days and I can’t force the burstable option to OFF (in fact I could by tweaking the theme)
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I have a user who had exceeds his bandwidth limit. His account had been created on february 12th. I told him, I’d wait until his birthday date, to send him an invoice for the exceedent bandwidth used. But on the March 1st, his bandwidth data has been reseted. So I can’t know how much he exceeded his bandwidth during his one month subscription (ended on march 11th), also I couldnt invoice this bandwidth’s going beyond to him.
Maybe it is not related to the 1.9 release, but it could be great to have :
- an email alert to the box admin when a siteworx account reach his bandwidth limit
- the ability to allow or disallow the burstable option (if the box admin disallow it, the siteworx user couldn’t allow it)
- Be sure to be able to follow up the exceed bandwidth during every birthday period (I mean, If a siteworx account is created on xxxx 10th, the bandwidth used should not be reseted before the 9th of the next months) and receive an email alert when the bandwidth used is reseted (only in case of the limit has been reach).
Regards
Pascal