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If you’re currently using cPanel along with ProFTPd as your default FTP service and you are getting disconnection nor timeout issues while trying to edit a file or uploading/downloading it’s probably because cPanel leaves the Timeout settings for ProFTPd with default settings.
Due this, you will need to edit your ProFTPd configuration file and add custom timeouts to make it work properly.

Add the following Timeout settings below the comments (#’s):

TimeoutLogin 120
TimeoutIdle 3600
TimeoutNoTransfer 3600
TimeoutStalled 3600

Save and quit editting proftpd.conf and restart the service.

Try again and let us know if you continue experiencing disconnection issues.

Quick steps to install YUM on the mentioned OS versions.

First off you will need to install a key from the centos mirrors:

Download all the necessary packages:

Install all the packages

Finally install YUM,

YUM should be installed by then.

Finally, type:

to put your system up to date.

Sometimes when you issue a yum install ‘package’ yum stalls on ‘Parsing package install arguments’ message without downloading any package or showing us anything.

To quickly fix this do the following:

First, type ctrl+c and quit the yum process

At this point, retrying the hung yum command should succeed.
You will probably need to run ‘yum clean all’ after cleaning up the above mess before yum can make progress.

On this post we are going to show how to quickly patch a common PCI Vulnerability Alert that says something like this:
“The remote service appears to encrypt traffic using SSL protocol version 2″.

In Apache common ports 80 and 443, you need to modify the SSLCipherSuite directive in the httpd.conf or ssl.conf file.
An example would be editing the following lines to something like:

After you have done this, if you see you are still getting PCI Compliance vulnerability emails regarding to this issue its probably that cPanel is still allowing SSLv2 on their ports.

To quickly disable SSL version 2 on cPanel ports: 2082, 2083, 2086, 2087, 2095, 2096. You will need to do the following:

edit /var/cpanel/cpanel.config and change nativessl=1 to nativessl=0

This will make cPanel to use sTunnel.

edit /usr/local/cpanel/etc/stunnel/default/stunnel.conf

and add:

just below the “Authentication stuff” tab.

After you have done all this you will need to restart cPanel:

Done!

How to quickly check this?

SSH to your server and type the following commands

If everything is fine you should receive something like this,

Here is the steps to install the Cisco VPN client application on linux based servers. We have found several customers use their cisco router to manage their VPN Network, therefore by following this simple steps you should be able to install and configure your linux server as a VPN client.

- Download vpnclient-linux-4.8.00.0490-k9.tar.gz from ServerBuddies file server:

- Uncompress the application:

You will see a new folder created called “vpnclient” ‘cd’ into it and run the installation script

Answer the following questions:

Directory where binaries will be installed?
[/usr/local/bin]

Automatically start the VPN service at boot time?
[yes]

Directory containing linux kernel source code?
You will need to search where your kernel source code is, 90% of the cases will be on /lib/modules/`uname -r`
For this example we will use:

/lib/modules/2.6.9-67.0.22.EL/source

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If you cant find your kernel source files, it’s probably you dont have it, you will need to download the kernel-devel package:

Note: Double check you are downloading the right kernel version that you currently use by typing:

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To Start you vpnclient type:

Keep in mind that Cisco VPN profiles are both compatible in Linux or Windows so if you have already a Windows myprofile.pcf cisco vpn client profile you can move it to /etc/opt/cisco-vpnclient/Profiles/myprofile.cf for use it on your linux server later.

To start the VPN connection using your current profile just type:

This cisco vpnclient version should be able to run on latest kernel version, but if you run into problems installing your Cisco VPN Client feel free to contact our Tech Support Staff.

* ServerBuddies Team.