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 automatically and missed the small joke.
cpsrvd is “cPanel Service Daemon,” which is gives you cPanel services. It crashes. Often. So often, cPanel handles the crash well by restarting and sending you the above email. So, it’s not a problem. Relax. Whew.



Just moved to a VPS host with cPanel … the nameserver change hasn’t even taken hold … and I got this message.
The cPanel Service Daemon crashes. So often, they coded in an auto-recovery, rather than cure the problem … how cool.
Just gives me warm fuzzies all over.