Disabling cppop automagical restart

[IC3D]

I am trying to stop and disable POP services on one of my WHM boxes all together. I have an internal app communicating via IMAP and SMTP but POP services for this box is unnecessary and will never be used, so I thought I would disable it.

In - Main >> Service Configuration >> Mailserver Configuration
I unset POP3D POP3DSSL

Then I ran:

/etc/init.d/cpanel stop
touch /etc/cppopdisable
/etc/init.d/cpanel start

Now for the past 24hrs every 5mins I get an email:

pop failed @ Tue Mar 1 10:42:42 2011. A restart was attempted automagically.
Service Check Method: [tcp connect]
Failure Reason: Unable to connect to port 110

WHM 11.28.83
CENTOS 5.5 x86_64

How do I disable this from trying to restart every 5 minutes?

 

[IC3D]

So I found some Info regarding chkservd script configuration; which is really dated:
http://forums.cpanel.net/f5/cron-jobs-restart-services-22085.html

so - find * | grep chkservd

lead me here: /etc/chkserv.d/chkserv.d.conf

which listed all the services:
cpsrvd:1
exim:1
...
...
...
pop:1

.... I changed pop from 1 to 0 ... (disable)

waiting another go around (5 min) to see if this finally stops


Assuming this is right this time, we shall see

 

[JaredR.]

cppop is deprecated in recent versions of cPanel and should be disabled anyway. Editing the /etc/chkserv.d/chkdservd.conf file is the correct approach. Also, remove the cppop file from /etc/chkserv.d. Restart tailwatchd (chkservd is a driver that is part of tailwatchd) and watch /var/log/chkservd.log to make sure the service is no longer being detected as down:

# mv /etc/chkserv.d/cppop /root
# /scripts/restartsrv_tailwatchd
# tail -f /var/log/chkservd.log

Use Ctrl+C to stop the tail -f command.

 

[IC3D]

cppop is deprecated in recent versions of cPanel and should be disabled anyway. Editing the /etc/chkserv.d/chkdservd.conf file is the correct approach. Also, remove the cppop file from /etc/chkserv.d. Restart tailwatchd (chkservd is a driver that is part of tailwatchd) and watch /var/log/chkservd.log to make sure the service is no longer being detected as down:

# mv /etc/chkserv.d/cppop /root
# /scripts/restartsrv_tailwatchd
# tail -f /var/log/chkservd.log

Use Ctrl+C to stop the tail -f command.

Much appreciation on the fast response and the detail...

I will have to go back through and cleanly do this per your notes.... for now chkserv process isn't checking, restarting or throwing errors on cppop anymore!

Thanks

 

[stainer1]

Hi,

Would massively appreciate help with the same problem. Disabled email due to using GoogleApps for email, but am getting the POP automagical email every 5 mins - argh!

Bit of a server noob I'm afraid.

Tried SSH:

# mv /etc/chkserv.d/cppop /root
# /scripts/restartsrv_tailwatchd
# tail -f /var/log/chkservd.log

But the first line gives this message:

mv: cannot stat `/etc/chkserv.d/cppop': No such file or directory

Thanks!

 

[cPanelTristan]

What scripts do you have in /etc/chkserv.d location? If you have one called pop instead, move that one:

mv /etc/chkserv.d/pop /root