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cPanel logs most activity that happens on a server to log files so you can go back and review log entries for problems, instead of having to be on the server at the time of them happening.
This guide will cover the locations of the log files for things such as access logs, Apache web server logs, email logs, error logs, ftp logs, MySQL logs, and WHM logs.
| Access logs and user actions | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/access_log |
|---|---|
| Account transfers and misc. logs | /var/cpanel/logs |
| Auditing log (account creations, deletions, etc) | /var/cpanel/accounting.log |
| Backup logs | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/cpbackup |
| Brute force protection (cphulkd) log | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/cphulkd.log |
| Cpanel dnsadmin dns clustering daemon | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/dnsadmin_log |
| Cpanel taskqueue processing daemon | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/queueprocd.log |
| DBmapping | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/setupdbmap_log |
| EasyApache build logs | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/easy/apache/ |
| Error log | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log |
| Installation log | /var/log/cpanel |
| License updates and errors | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/license_log |
| Locale database modifications | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/build_locale_database_log |
| Login errors (CPSRVD) | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/login_log |
| Horde | /var/cpanel/horde/log/ |
| RoundCube | /var/cpanel/roundcube/log/ |
| SquirrelMail | /var/cpanel/squirrelmail/ |
| Panic log | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/panic_log |
| Per account bandwidth history (Cached) | /var/cpanel/bandwidth.cache/{USERNAME} |
| Per account bandwidth history (Human Readable) | /var/cpanel/bandwidth/{USERNAME} |
| Service status logs | /var/log/chkservd.log |
| Tailwatch driver tailwatchd log | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/tailwatch_log |
| Update analysis reporting | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/updated_analysis/{TIMESTAMP}.log |
| Update (UPCP) log | /var/cpanel/updatelogs/updated.{TIMESTAMP}.log |
| WebDisk (CPDAVD) | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/cpdavd_error_log |
| Website statistics log | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/stats_log |
| Access logs and user actions | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/access_log |
|---|
| Apache restarts done through cPanel and WHM | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/safeapcherestart_log |
|---|---|
| Domain access logs | /usr/local/apache/domlogs/{DOMAIN} |
| Processing of log splitting | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/splitlogs_log |
| suPHP audit log | /usr/local/apache/logs/suphp_log |
| Web server and CGI application error log | /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log |
| Delivery and receipt log | /var/log/exim_mainlog | |
|---|---|---|
| Incoming mail queue | /var/spool/exim/input/ | |
| Log of messages rejected based on ACLS or other policies | /var/log/exim_rejectlog | |
| Unexpected/Fatal error log | /var/log/exim_paniclog | |
| IMAP, POP login attempts, transactions, fatal errors and spam scoring | /var/log/maillog | /var/log/messages |
| Mailman | /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailmain/logs |
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