kill -s 9 [PID] Also try it without the -s if it won’t go.

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Pretty simple, this takes minimal load and delivers the data as it’s found.

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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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history -c

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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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There is a bug with the new option in Centos 5 called setroubleshoot. The bug spins the program over and over causing high memory and sometimes CPU use. Unfortunately there is no permanent fix yet, but if you see something like this high in your daily process log: /usr/bin/python -E /usr/sbin/setroubleshootd To fix for now [...]

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Kernal version uname -a Nic / Lan driver version dmesg | grep r8169 Internet controller lspci -nn | grep Ethernet Details on etho nic card sudo ethtool eth0 Module size lsmod | grep r8169 Module versions cat /proc/modules | grep r8169 Don’t worry all these commands are safe and just for reporting.

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You could also use find and sed, but I find that this little line of perl works nicely. perl -pi -w -e ‘s/search/replace/g;’ *.php -e means execute the following line of code. -i means edit in-place -w write warnings -p loop Example I had the following style sheet in a section: <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”../includes/style.css”> [...]

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This usually means you need to upgrade Perl on the server. Here is a example of a md5sum error. The remote server didn’t report a correct md5sum of the archive. Please ensure you selected the correct type of remote server. To fix upgrade Perl as shown here: http://www.ezlinuxadmin.com/2009/08/upgrading-perl-on-cpanel/

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rsync -vae ssh 12.123.123.123:/home/dwhsbackup/daily/username/ /backup/cpbackup/daily2/username/ –bwlimit=10000 –exclude-from ‘/root/exclude.txt’

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