To get the files out of a tarball, you can use the following commands:
tar xvf something.tar
If the tarball has also been gzipped (compressed), you can use the following command:
tar xvfz something.tar.gz
If you only want certain directories from the tarball, do this:
tar xvzf something.tar.gz */dir.you.want/*
If you have a .tar.bz2 file, then you need bzip2 installed [...]

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ssh-keygen: password-less SSH login
SSH is often used to login from one system to another without requiring passwords.
This requires you generate your own personal set of private/public ssh keys.
ssh-keygen is used to generate that key pair for you. Here is a session where your own personal private/public key pair is created:
root:~> ssh-keygen -t rsa
Generating public/private rsa [...]

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1. Login to your server and su to root, unless you logged in as root already.
2. cd /root (unless your default login folder is already root)
3. pico .bashrc (or use your favorite editor)
4. Scroll to the end of the file then add the following:
echo ‘ALERT – Root Shell Access (YourserverName) on:’ `date` `who` | mail [...]

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Here is some common places you can find some junk to remove:
find /backup/cpbackup/daily -name core.* -exec rm {} \;
find /backup/cpbackup/daily -name *.*.mbox:2, -exec rm {} \;
find /backup/cpbackup/daily -name *.msg” -exec rm {} \;
find /backup/cpbackup/daily -name *.msg” -exec rm {} \;
find /backup/cpbackup/daily/ -name *.*.dwhs1234.dwhs.net:2, -exec rm {} \;
find /backup/cpbackup/daily/ -name *.*.dwhs1234.dwhs.net:2,* -exec rm {} \;
Basically .core [...]

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Setting your PHP handler to SuPHP, which will cause PHP scripts to run as the user instead of “nobody”.
Note that it has stricter permissions requirements than the other handlers–files must be 644, directories 755

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There is two ways I know to accomplish this, the first seems to be better but I am still testing it out.
The first way is another great script from Script Mantra called Sendmail Logger. Once installed and php has Mail Headers compiled with it then you can see easily whats being sent through nobody or [...]

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