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Entries Tagged as 'Linux Commands'
Clear bash history in Linux
August 14th, 2012 by EZ linux · No Comments
Tags: Linux Commands · Linux Security · Linux Tricks
Change the language on Linux with a command
June 7th, 2012 by EZ linux · 1 Comment
It’s easy just run this command and than choose a language: system-config-language
Tags: Cheat Sheets · Installing Linux · Linux Commands · Linux Software / Scripts · Linux Tricks
Cpanel branding bug
June 4th, 2012 by EZ linux · No Comments
As you would know if you have tried to brand cpanel with their fairly new tool it sometimes doesn’t apply the changes or sometimes only some images stick. Considering this is a two year old bug I wouldn’t count on it getting fixed soon. Luckily the fix is easy. Just login as root and run [...]
Tags: Cpanel and WHM · Linux Commands · Linux Software / Scripts
VI basic basics
May 14th, 2012 by EZ linux · No Comments
Starting: vi filename edit filename starting at line 1 vi -r filename recover filename that was being edited when system crashed Exiting: :x<Return> quit vi, writing out modified file to file named in original invocation :wq<Return> quit vi, writing out modified file to file named in original invocation :q<Return> [...]
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How to install CPanel over Centos 6 minimal
May 13th, 2012 by EZ linux · No Comments
To install CPanel over Centos minimal 6 you need to get some basic packages. You can easily grab those with YUM here is the package command to get Centos Minimal install ready for CPanel. yum groupinstall base
Tags: Cpanel and WHM · Installing Linux · Linux Commands · Linux Operating Systems · Linux Software / Scripts · Linux Tricks
kill a linux process that won’t die
February 3rd, 2012 by EZ linux · No Comments
kill -s 9 [PID] Also try it without the -s if it won’t go.
Tags: Linux Commands · Linux Operating Systems · Linux Security · Linux Software / Scripts · Linux Tricks
How to search a directory for a certain search string.
January 23rd, 2012 by EZ linux · No Comments
Pretty simple, this takes minimal load and delivers the data as it’s found. grep -R String *
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Tracking down the biggest folders
August 11th, 2011 by EZ linux · No Comments
du -ax –max-depth 1 /var/cpanel | sort -n | tail This is a great command to simply find what folders are the biggest in a directory. You can replace the /var/cpanel with any folder and it will list everything in there and how big they are in order. Once you find the big folder then [...]
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Clear bash history through ssh command line
May 30th, 2010 by EZ linux · 1 Comment
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Path to date
May 24th, 2010 by EZ linux · No Comments
The server path to date can very for different servers, you will need to run this command to find it: which date For most servers it is: /bin/date This is the same for perl and php
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