In the previous post, I mentioned how cPanel crashes and restarts itself and how this works well.
Sometimes, it does not restart. This happened to me recently for the first time after years of working with cPanel and Web Host Manager.
If you have shell access, restart cPanel with this command:
/etc/init.d/cpanel restart

At some point you will get an email with a subject line like this:
cpsrvd failed @ Apr 05 07:08:11 2007. A restart was attempted automagicly.

Yikes! What the heck this this mean? For a long time, I was so spooked by the words “failed” and “restart” that I assumed “automagicaly” was a typo for [...]