WHM Cpanel Other Usage‡ folder large in size – Solution

Solution to WHM Cpanel Other Usage‡ folder large in size If you are an WHM / Cpanel Admin and receive a waring that looks something like this : The backup process on “your.server” failed. The backup failed to complete for the following reason: Available disk space (17 percent) is too low. Backups will not run. Start Time:Saturday, August 7, 2021 at 4:00:02 PM UTCEnd Time:Saturday, August 7, 2021 at 4:00:03 PM UTCRun Time:1 secondThis notice is the result of a request from “cPanel Backup System”.The system generated this notice on Saturday, August 7, 2021 at 4:00:03 PM UTC.“Backup Failed To Finish” notifications are currently configured to have an importance of “High”. You can change the importance or disable this type of notification in WHM’s Contact Manager at: This is a warning that the disk space is too low, and you may be experiencing an open session problem with one of… Read More »WHM Cpanel Other Usage‡ folder large in size – Solution

WHM Cpanel sshd: /var/empty/sshd must be owned by root and not group or world-writable

by InteractiveWebs Team
CentOS, Cpanel, WHM

Error: WHM Cpanel sshd: /var/empty/sshd must be owned by root and not group or world-writable is reported via email notifications. Note: Our server is running Centos Server cpanel2.interactivewebs.com Primary IPAddress xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Service Name sshd Service Status failed ⛔ Notification The service “sshd” appears to be down. Service Check Method The system’s command to check or to restart this service failed. Number of Restart Attempts 19 Service Check Raw Output (XID cg7fzv) The “sshd” service is down. The subprocess “/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/restartsrv_sshd” reported error number 3 when it ended. Startup Log Dec 07 02:34:37 xx.interactivewebs.com systemd[1]: Failed to start OpenSSH server daemon.Dec 07 02:34:37 xx.interactivewebs.com systemd[1]: Unit sshd.service entered failed state.Dec 07 02:34:37 xx.interactivewebs.com systemd[1]: sshd.service failed. Log Messages Dec 7 02:34:37 cpanel2 sshd: /var/empty/sshd must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. Memory Information Used 1.12 GB Available 14.01 GB Installed 15.13 GB Load Information 0.00 0.01 0.07 Uptime 1 hour, 30 minutes, and… Read More »WHM Cpanel sshd: /var/empty/sshd must be owned by root and not group or world-writable