Anyone notices that serveral perl modules are missing after cpanel is installed on a

[EdRooney]

Anyone notices that serveral perl modules are missing after cpanel is installed on a barebones OS?

Cpanel recommends you choose the minimal installation when installing your OS but then it doesn't installed the required perl modules to run all functions of cpanel.

With CentOS it doesn't even install gcc.

How could they not know this if they tested it on all th OS's they say are supported?

Has anyone else been missing perl modules after a cpanel install?

 

[cPanelBilly]

You have to be doing something wrong if you are not getting gcc installed.
The installer runs: exec '/scripts/installrpm', 'glibc-devel';
which will use yum to install gcc, so if gcc is not installing it is due to an error directly with your system.
As for CentOS I use it for my personal server and do not have a single issue with it.

 

[chirpy]

Never had a problem with any perl modules on any cPanel installations. I did once have a problem with CentOS and gcc not being installed by the cPanel instaler before the apache build started - probably more of a synchronisation problem with the forked installer, than anything.

 

[EdRooney]

You have to be doing something wrong.

Thanks for our response however after reading up on the mkdir,cd,wget, and sh commands, 4 commands I wasn't very familar with, I have determined I am not doing anything wrong.

 

[EdRooney]

probably more of a synchronisation problem with the forked installer, than anything.

What the forked installer? The install.sh script runs in multiple threads?

 

[haze]

Make sure you've imported the centos GPG key otherwise yum can't install the rpm's.
http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=17

Also, i've noticed that with centos, you need to manually hit enter when it comes to installing the perl part of the cpanel installer, as it asks if you want this that and the other thing.

I normally have to run a /scripts/upcp --force after a clean install of cpanel to ensure everything up to scratch.

 

[verdon]

I've definately had a few missing, sorry I don't remember which, but chirpy found them for me trying to get his dictionary attack ACL's working on my new box.

I also sometimes get messages in my logwatch report (but not every day) along the lines of...
Can't locate these modules:
net-pf-4: n Time(s)
net-pf-11: n Time(s)
net-pf-5: n Time(s)
net-pf-9: n Time(s)
net-pf-18: n Time(s)

I've been doing some googling today and it looks like these aren't perl mods, but are related to network ports like appletalk and ash (whatever that is), which I do not run (intentionally). I guess that the reason it is in my logwatch some days and not others may be people poking at those protocals some days and not others, just to see what happpens. I'm doing a lot of guessing here, but am just getting a chance to research this now.

regards,

 

[EdRooney]

I've definately had a few missing, sorry I don't remember which, but chirpy found them for me trying to get his dictionary attack ACL's working on my new box.

I also sometimes get messages in my logwatch report (but not every day) along the lines of...
Can't locate these modules:
net-pf-4: n Time(s)
net-pf-11: n Time(s)
net-pf-5: n Time(s)
net-pf-9: n Time(s)
net-pf-18: n Time(s)

I've been doing some googling today and it looks like these aren't perl mods, but are related to network ports like appletalk and ash (whatever that is), which I do not run (intentionally). I guess that the reason it is in my logwatch some days and not others may be people poking at those protocals some days and not others, just to see what happpens. I'm doing a lot of guessing here, but am just getting a chance to research this now.

regards,

That dictionary attack is nice:
# cat /etc/exim_deny | wc -l
61800

 

[EdRooney]

Is there a way to block all those with the apf firewall?

 

[haze]

Is there a way to block all those with the apf firewall?

1. You should start a new thread otherwise you won't get people attention ( If you use the search function at the top of this page, I do believe this has been discussed previously )
2. You should probably set a cron to remove those entries at the very least twice a day otherwise you'll be in for a major performance issue.

 

[EdRooney]

1. You should start a new thread otherwise you won't get people attention ( If you use the search function at the top of this page, I do believe this has been discussed previously )
2. You should probably set a cron to remove those entries at the very least twice a day otherwise you'll be in for a major performance issue.

Im going for 100,000 ips, and then 1,000,000!

 

[EdRooney]

I've definately had a few missing, sorry I don't remember which, but chirpy found them for me trying to get his dictionary attack ACL's working on my new box.

I also sometimes get messages in my logwatch report (but not every day) along the lines of...
Can't locate these modules:
net-pf-4: n Time(s)
net-pf-11: n Time(s)
net-pf-5: n Time(s)
net-pf-9: n Time(s)
net-pf-18: n Time(s)

I've been doing some googling today and it looks like these aren't perl mods, but are related to network ports like appletalk and ash (whatever that is), which I do not run (intentionally). I guess that the reason it is in my logwatch some days and not others may be people poking at those protocals some days and not others, just to see what happpens. I'm doing a lot of guessing here, but am just getting a chance to research this now.

regards,

What OS are you using?

 

[verdon]

Brand new box, CentOS 3.3 i686

 

[EdRooney]

Brand new box, CentOS 3.3 i686

HAHA! I KNEW IT!!!

According to cpanelBilly, everyone using CentOS 3.3 must be installing it wrong, it is definately not a problem with the cpanel install script

 

[haze]

Its not really a matter of installing it wrong. If you forget to first import the centos gpg key that will cause problems with rpm's not installing. Further, you have to manually confirm perl module changes during the initial setup, otherwise run /scripts/upcp --force to complete the task.

 

[EdRooney]

I got the centos gpg key and ran /scripts/upcp --force and still had missing modules.

Why do you have to manually confirm perl module changes during the initial setup with CentOS and not with any other linux distro? I believe there is a flag, "-y" that answers yes to install everything without asking, why doens't cpanel use that in there install script?

 

[cPanelBilly]

HAHA! I KNEW IT!!!

According to cpanelBilly, everyone using CentOS 3.3 must be installing it wrong, it is definately not a problem with the cpanel install script[/QUOTEPlease take a look at what I said.
gcc != perl modules.
I will also ask in this thread, if you have any Ticket ID's where you are having issues please let me know them so I can look into the box.

 

[haze]

I remember submitting a bug report a while ago.. can't seem to find it tho. This one was closed, maybe needs re-opening: http://bugzilla.cpanel.net/show_bug.cgi?id=727

 

[EdRooney]

HAHA! I KNEW IT!!!

According to cpanelBilly, everyone using CentOS 3.3 must be installing it wrong, it is definately not a problem with the cpanel install script[/QUOTEPlease take a look at what I said.
gcc != perl modules.
I will also ask in this thread, if you have any Ticket ID's where you are having issues please let me know them so I can look into the box.

Your install instructions only contain 4 commands:
mkdir /home/cpins
cd /home/cpins
wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/latest
sh latest

Which one of those commands wrongly typed in will not install gcc?

 

[haze]

The installer will install gcc. If you don't have your centos gpg key imported then yum can not install gcc nore anything else. And as billy has stated gcc is NOT a perl module.