3.1. USING THE CPANEL::ACCOUNTING PERL MODULE

CHAPTER 3. FAQ

Q: What do I do when a Guestbook is not showing anything, I get a blank page when trying to view, and no

errors when submitting?

A: Do the following:

chown nobody /home/username/.guestbook

Make sure 'nobody' can write to it.

Q: What do I do when all the Perl/CGI scripts that are not running as root (including Interchange) get the error

 getgrgid: invalid groupid XXXXX ? From Apache's error log ...

[Tue Mar 26 09:13:16 2002] [error] [client x.x.x.x] (2)No such file or directory: getgrgid: invalid groupid 32015

[Tue Mar 26 09:13:16 2002] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec of /home/username/public html/utility.cgi

failed

[Tue Mar 26 09:13:16 2002] [error] [client x.x.x.x] Premature end of script headers: /home/username/public html/script.cgi

A: Do the following:

chmod 644 /etc/group

If that doesn't fix it, check permissions on the passwd file and shadow file as well just for good measure.

Q: What are the default locations for Mailman, exim config, exim log, or the exim reject log?

A: The locations are:

  Mailman lists = /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/lists/

  Exim Config = /etc/exim.conf

  Exim Log = /var/log/exim mainlog

  Exim Reject Log = /var/log/exim rejectlog

Q: What do I do when setting up a trust relationship and I get errors about possible security threats and stuff

about SSH/known hosts?

A: Most likely the master server has changed it's ssl info. The easiest way to remedy this is:

1. cd /etc/

2. rm  rf .ssh

Then try setting up the trust relationship again.

3.1

Using the Cpanel::Accounting Perl module

The Cpanel::Accounting perl module is designed to give programs that need access to create/remove/modify

accounts an easy way to implement this in their perl program.

For security reasons if you are connecting to a remote server you should set the usessl varible to 1.

You must have the Net::SSLeay perl module installed for this to work.

Cpanel::Accounting supports the following methods:

new   Create a new Cpanel::Accounting Object.

showversion   Shows what version of WHM the remote server is running.

listaccts   Lists currently active accounts.

listpkgs   Lists packages avalible for creation.

createacct   Creates a new account on the server.

killacct   Terminates an account on the server.

suspend   Suspends an account on the server.

unsuspend   Unsuspends an account on the server.

Below is a sample Perl program.

#!/usr/bin/perl

BEGIN {

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