Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:55:31 -0600 From: Jacob S <stormspotter@6Texans.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Bind & cPanel Message-ID: <20050328095531.15dd5890@jacob.6texans.net>
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Ok, since I noticed a couple other people saying they use cPanel in a different thread, I thought I would go ahead and ask my question here. I'm maintaining a FreeBSD 5.3 box that's running cPanel, Apache 1.3, Bind 9.xx, Qmail/Exim and friends. (Yes, the mail server is a little bit of an odd setup. Exim is a 'catchall' and Qmail is just for transferring mail to a second server that does the real sending.) The problem is that Bind has crashed on us twice now, presumably from changes that cPanel makes during it's nightly update. One time it was using a config file pointing to another file outside the chroot, the other time Bind was installed in /usr/local/sbin, instead of /usr/sbin so the start script in /etc/rc.d would not work any more. I'm really starting to dislike cPanel by this point, but we need it for the time being because of it's "user-friendliness" for customers on the server. First, I'm having trouble getting Bind to install itself in /usr/sbin again even after a fresh make clean, make all, etc. from the ports. The Makefile looks correct compared to another FreeBSD server with Bind that's not using cPanel. What am I missing? Second, how do people prevent cPanel from messing things up? Since we watch the software for security updates and keep everything up to date, is there an easy way to disable cPanel's intrusive 'updates'? Many thanks for any helpful tips or hints anyone can offer. Jacob
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