[zigzag]

Problem solved it was the tmp folders.

[yonatan]

I would advice to stay away from plesk on Linux.

[zigzag]

Hi,
It was but I had it symlinked yesterday -
Plesk, moved /usr/local/psa to /var/psa, symlinked and Plesk restarted

The person that did said it sounds like a plesk licensing error and not to do with the symlink but I'm not convinced as I don't think that that would affect crons, unfortunately I didn't try to do change the passwords/crons etc before hand

[Myatu]

Is this a bog-standard OVH install? I'd point my finger on the directory permissions vs. PHP/Apache permission (read/write access to the tmp directory as www-data).

[zigzag]

Hi,

Yes I saw the thread, there's a tmp folder in var but not a symlink and I couldn't find anything that looked symlinked in the psa.conf - this is the psa.conf:

# Plesk tree
PRODUCT_ROOT_D /usr/local/psa

# Directory of SysV-like Plesk initscripts
PRODUCT_RC_D /etc/init.d

# Directory for config files
PRODUCT_ETC_D /usr/local/psa/etc

# Directory for service utilities
PLESK_LIBEXEC_DIR /usr/lib64/plesk-9.0

# Virtual hosts directory
HTTPD_VHOSTS_D /var/www/vhosts

# Apache configuration files directory
HTTPD_CONF_D /etc/httpd/conf

# Apache include files directory
HTTPD_INCLUDE_D /etc/httpd/conf.d

# Apache binary
HTTPD_BIN /usr/sbin/httpd

#Apache log files directory
HTTPD_LOG_D /var/log/httpd

#apache startup script
HTTPD_SERVICE httpd

# Qmail directory
QMAIL_ROOT_D /var/qmail

# Location of qmail maildirs
PLESK_MAILNAMES_D /var/qmail/mailnames

# Path to rblsmtpd
RBLSMTPD /usr/sbin/rblsmtpd

# Courier-IMAP
COURIER_IMAP_ROOT_D /

# Proftpd
FTPD_CONF /etc/proftpd.conf
FTPD_CONF_INC /etc/proftpd.include
FTPD_BIN_D /usr/bin
FTPD_VAR_D /var/run/proftpd
FTPD_SCOREBOARD /var/run/proftpd/scoreboard

# Bind
NAMED_RUN_ROOT_D /var/named/run-root



# Webalizer
WEB_STAT /usr/bin/webalizer

# MySQL
MYSQL_VAR_D /var/lib/mysql
MYSQL_BIN_D /usr/bin

# PostgreSQL
PGSQL_DATA_D /var/lib/pgsql/data
PGSQL_CONF_D /var/lib/pgsql/data
PGSQL_BIN_D /usr/bin

# Backups directory
DUMP_D /var/lib/psa/dumps
DUMP_TMP_D /tmp

# Mailman directories
MAILMAN_ROOT_D /usr/lib/mailman
MAILMAN_VAR_D /var/lib/mailman

# Python binary
PYTHON_BIN /usr/bin/python2.4

# Tomcat root directory
CATALINA_HOME /usr/share/tomcat5

# DrWeb
DRWEB_ROOT_D /opt/drweb
DRWEB_ETC_D /etc/drweb

# GnuPG binary
GPG_BIN /usr/bin/gpg

# Tar binary
TAR_BIN /bin/tar

# AWStats
AWSTATS_ETC_D /etc/awstats
AWSTATS_BIN_D /var/www/cgi-bin/awstats
AWSTATS_TOOLS_D /usr/share/awstats
AWSTATS_DOC_D /var/www/html/awstats

# openssl binary
OPENSSL_BIN /usr/bin/openssl

LIB_SSL_PATH /lib/libssl.so
LIB_CRYPTO_PATH /lib/libcrypto.so

CLIENT_PHP_BIN /usr/local/psa/bin/php-cli

# SNI
SNI_SUPPORT false

[Myatu]

Did you see http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=84744 ? Check if your /tmp directory is setup correctly.

[zigzag]

I've just got a new server Super Plan best of 2011 and am having problems with Plesk 10, I can't set up or modify any cron jobs or change the admin password or use watchdog. i need to migrate from the old server but need the cron working first but I'm at a complete loss.

If you click on the Watchdog module it gives:

ERROR: WDCPExc
Changing of crontab configuration failed.
0: wdcplib.php:137
set_cronjob_task(string '/usr/local/psa/libexec/modules/watchdog/cp/secur-check', string 'root', array)
1: wdcplib.php:33
set_secur_scan_cronjob(string 'weekly')
2: configure.php:20
require_once(string '/var/psa/admin/plib/modules/watchdog/configure.php')
3: wdcplib.php:212
wd__require_once(string 'configure.php')
4: preaction.php:17
require_once(string '/var/psa/admin/plib/modules/watchdog/preaction.php')
5: index.php:3

If you try to set up or modify any cron:

ERROR: PleskFatalException
Crontab->export() failed: plesk_tempnam() failed: tempnam failed:Incorrect temporary file name generated.

0: CrontabPropertiesUIPointer.php:57
CrontabPropertiesUIPointer->accessItem(string 'POST', NULL null)
1: UIPointer.php:595
UIPointer->access(string 'POST')
2: plesk.php:42

If you try to change the admin password:

ERROR: PleskFatalException
plesk_tempnam() failed: tempnam failed:Incorrect temporary file name generated.

0: cmd_server.php3:55
ch_admin_pass(string '************************', string '************')
1: admin-password.php:54
plesk__admin_password->accessItem(string 'POST', NULL null)
2: UIPointer.php:595
UIPointer->access(string 'POST')
3: plesk.php:42