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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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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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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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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If you are online then you should run: mysqlcheck mysqlcheck -o –all-databases If you are offline then you can run myisamchk which is a little more thorough. myisamchk –sort-index myisamchk -r tbl_name

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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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I spent hours trying to get mod_bandwidth to work simply because I have used it for years. But now with Apache 2.0 times have changed and there is a better option for Linux and it’s free. The new mod to regulate bandwidth and more is called Mod_cband I’m not sure what cband means but I [...]

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Apache 2.0 makes raising the max client from the default 256 hard limit a little harder now. If you have cpanel then it’s even a little harder or I should you just need to know what to do, figuring it out is a shot in the dark. One main difference is you have raise the [...]

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