ttremeth

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cpanel counter install issue

could not write to counter file: /var/cpanel/counters/"user".dat"

Any one know why this happens. This is not the first instance.

Thanks!
 
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awsol

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Sometimes the files become owned by root and therefore they don't work. You have to chown them as stated.
 

ttremeth

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Thanks

This is the second one in as many attempts. As far a chown you mean change permission manually I assume? You are speaking to someone who relies on cpanel for everything.
 

awsol

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Via ssh do the following command but be sure to replace it with the correct info.

chown USERNAME.USERNAME /var/cpanel/Counters/COUNTERNAME

Now that will give them ownership of the file. Be sure to replace the CAPS with thr correct info.