{"id":1092,"date":"2010-09-24T12:18:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T16:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2013-03-20T08:43:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T12:43:16","slug":"tailwatchd-failed-a-restart-was-attempted-automagically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/tailwatchd-failed-a-restart-was-attempted-automagically","title":{"rendered":"tailwatchd failed: A restart was attempted automagically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An email from a cPanel server with the <strong>&#8220;tailwatchd failed&#8221; <\/strong>warning message indicates that either the cpanel service is offline\/down OR the cpanel service was restarted. The complete message looks like the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">tailwatchd<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> failed @ Tue Jan 1 00:00:00 2010. <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">A restart was attempted automagically <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Service Check Method: [check command] tailwatchd is not running<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t anything to worry, however, you can check the tailwatchd logs for the failure reasons:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"># tail -f \/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/tailwatchd_log<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To check the status of the &#8216;tailwatchd&#8217; service and it&#8217;s output, execute<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"># \/usr\/local\/cpanel\/libexec\/tailwatchd --status <\/span>\r\n Driver (Active: 1) Cpanel::TailWatch::ChkServd\r\n tailwatchd is enabled\r\n Running, PID 24463\r\n Driver (Active: 1) Cpanel::TailWatch::cPBandwd\r\n Driver (Active: 1) Cpanel::TailWatch::Antirelayd\r\n Driver (Active: 1) Cpanel::TailWatch::Eximstats<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Restart the &#8216;cpanel&#8217; service once, just to make sure it&#8217;s online<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"># service cpanel restart<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>and if you still continue to receive the &#8216;tailwatchd failed&#8217; emails, update &#8220;cPanel&#8221; on the server<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"># \/scripts\/upcp --force<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An email from a cPanel server with the &#8220;tailwatchd failed&#8221; warning message indicates that either the cpanel service is offline\/down OR the cpanel service was restarted. The complete message looks like the following:<\/p>\n<p>tailwatchd failed @ Tue Jan 1 00:00:00 2010.<br \/>\nA restart was attempted automagically<br \/>\nService Check Method: [check command] tailwatchd is not running<\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t anything to worry, however, you can check the tailwatchd logs for the failure reasons:<\/p>\n<p># tail -f \/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/tailwatchd_log<\/p>\n<p>To check the status of the &#8216;tailwatchd&#8217; service and it&#8217;s output, execute<\/p>\n<p># \/usr\/local\/cpanel\/libexec\/tailwatchd &#8211;status<br \/>\n Driver (Active: [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1084,1085,1087,1088,1082,1083,1086],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}