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

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#!/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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#!/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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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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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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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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Cpanel and linux leaves a lot of log files in /var After several years these can add up, especially in the cpanel/bandwidth folder. So a couple quick folder moves and symlinks can clean things up. This is assuming you have a /backup partition and some room in it. Moving the log folder mv /var/log /backup/ [...]

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The “setroubleshootd” process is included as part of SELinux. SELinux is not considered compatible with cPanel, and we recommend disabling it per our installation documentation: Disable SELinux security features For a fully successful installation you should disable SELinux. When installing a Red Hat or CentOS distribution, you will be able to use the graphical interface [...]

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SSH attacks are normally happened if you are running SSH on comman Port 22 . If you have simple or weak root password then chances of your server get compromised . We can secure SSH server with two methods : Method 1: A best option to secure your SSH is to run SSH on the [...]

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Open DNS gives a error and means that anyone can use your DNS resolvers. To lock it down you can add this. 1. Login to your server as root. 2. Wget and run the script as : Code: http://shashank.net/scripts/named.patch sh named.patch 3. It will provide you with an output like : Code: allow-recursion { 127.0.0.1; [...]

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