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To install MySQL governor on your Cpanel Cloud Linux server

May 18th, 2013 by EZ linux · No Comments

To install MySQL governor on your server: yum remove db-governor db-governor-mysql # you can ignore errors if you don’t have those packages installed yum install governor-mysql –enablerepo=cloudlinux-updates-testing /usr/share/lve/dbgovernor/mysqlgovernor.py –install * The installation currently supports only cPanel & DirectAdmin servers. ** Please, note that MySQL on cPanel servers will be updated from CloudLinux RPMs. *** MySQL [...]

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Tags: Cpanel and WHM · Linux Security · Linux Software / Scripts

magic qoutes

January 8th, 2013 by EZ linux · No Comments

This will solve the magic quotes compatibility when you create a local php.ini file. If you can’t turn off magic quotes using the htaccess file just: Create a text file Rename it to ‘php.ini’ Add the lines magic_quotes_gpc = Off magic_quotes_runtime = Off magic_quotes_sybase = Off extension=pdo.so extension=pdo_mysql.so Save it to the directory/ies in which [...]

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Tags: Cpanel and WHM · Linux Security · Linux Software / Scripts · Linux Tricks

Clear bash history in Linux

August 14th, 2012 by EZ linux · No Comments

history -c

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Tags: Linux Commands · Linux Security · Linux Tricks

Named backup or transfer files

June 5th, 2012 by EZ linux · No Comments

Most of the files are in the etc folder.

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Tags: Cheat Sheets · Cpanel and WHM · Linux Back Up · Linux Operating Systems · Linux Security

Converting CentOS 5.x or 6.x to CloudLinux (with cPanel & WHM installed)

February 11th, 2012 by EZ linux · No Comments

Converting CentOS 5.x or 6.x to CloudLinux (with cPanel & WHM installed) If you wish to convert from CentOS 5.x or 6.x to CloudLinux, have already installed cPanel & WHM, and own an IP-based CloudLinux license, run these commands: /usr/local/cpanel/cpkeyclt /usr/local/cpanel/bin/cloudlinux_system_install -k reboot /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/easyapache –build If you wish to convert from CentOS 5.x or 6.x [...]

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Tags: Cpanel and WHM · Linux Security · Linux Software / Scripts

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.

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Tags: Linux Commands · Linux Operating Systems · Linux Security · Linux Software / Scripts · Linux Tricks

add a 404 page to each website on a cpanel server

December 28th, 2011 by EZ linux · No Comments

#!/usr/bin/perl # cPlicensing.net – scripts            Copyright(c) 2003 cPlicensing.net. #                                     All rights Reserved. # support@cPlicensing.net              http://cPlicensing.net # Version: 0.02 print “Starting Scan…\n”; while(@USERS=getpwent()){ if (-d “$USERS[7]/public_html”) { if (-f “$USERS[7]/public_html/404.shtml”) { print “$USERS[0] 404.shtml exists\n”; } else { print “$USERS[0] creating 404.shtml…”; open(FILE,”>$USERS[7]/public_html/404.shtml”) or die “Unable to create file: $!”; close(FILE); chmod(0644, [...]

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Tags: Cpanel and WHM · Linux Security · Linux Software / Scripts

Backup cleaner script for cpanel

December 28th, 2011 by EZ linux · No Comments

#!/usr/bin/perl # cPlicensing.net – scripts             Copyright(c) 2003 cPlicensing.net. #                                       All rights Reserved. # support@cPlicensing.net               http://cPlicensing.net # Unauthorized copying is prohibited #Version: 0.01 use POSIX; $delete_old     = ’1′; #0 or 1, set to 1 to remove old account backups if($ARGV[0] eq “-d”) { $delete_old = ’1′; } $|++; POSIX::nice(19); print “Reading Backup Config…”; open(CPBACK,”/etc/cpbackup.conf”) or [...]

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Tags: Cpanel and WHM · Linux Security · Linux Software / Scripts

Manually changing an IP in Linux

December 17th, 2011 by EZ linux · No Comments

It’s pretty easy actually. Just go to this directory: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts Then you will see a file for eachnetwork port, for example my server is: ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 I already have the ifcfg-eth0 set up from the install but I want to use the second one for back ups so I just opened the file and [...]

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Tags: Cpanel and WHM · Hardware · Linux Drivers · Linux Operating Systems · Linux Security · Linux Software / Scripts · Linux Tricks · Ports

The skinny on raid differances

November 28th, 2011 by EZ linux · No Comments

We refer raid 5 but if you have remote back ups on the server then  raid 0 will get you the best performance between several hard drives. Keep in mind raid still can fail even with the same data going to several hard drives and this will slow your system down. Hardware raid is much [...]

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Tags: Hardware · Linux Back Up · Linux Security