I woke up this morning and found e-mails that were sent to me every hour showing a cronjob error.

I did some poking around and found a method of fixing it. Weird that searching the CPanel forums yielded no results.

Here’s the error message that was being e-mailed to me:

/etc/cron.hourly/modsecparse.pl:

DBI connect(’modsec:localhost’,'modsec’,…) failed: Access denied for user ‘modsec’@'localhost’ (using password: YES) at /etc/cron.hourly/modsecparse.pl line 19
Unable to connect to mysql database at /etc/cron.hourly/modsecparse.pl line 19.

Ok, so that’s a bummer. To fix this I popped open an SSH session and used the following commands:

Take a look at the modsec user’s password, then flip over to CPanel’s WHM. Click on phpMyAdmin and then in phpMyAdmin click Privileges > M > and edit the user Modsec. Change the password to whatever the password was in the aforementioned modsecparse.pl. That should do it!!

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