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How to clean out a cpanel servers’s mail queue by command line

March 10th, 2013 by EZ linux · No Comments

First stop exim in your WHM under services, just unclick any exim services running and save it. Then open you ssh client and use this code: /usr/sbin/exiqgrep -i | xargs /usr/sbin/exim -Mrm Then restart exim. This is much better then the mail queue system cpanel has installed, about 4 years (2009) they changed it and [...]

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

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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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

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

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Tags: Cheat Sheets · Installing Linux · Linux Commands · Linux Software / Scripts · Linux Tricks

How do I restart Linux network service?

May 14th, 2012 by EZ linux · No Comments

RedHat Linux command to reload or restart network (login as root user): # service network restart OR # /etc/init.d/network restart To start Linux network service: # service network start To stop Linux network service: # service network stop Debian Linux command to reload or restart network: # /etc/init.d/networking restart To start Linux network service: # [...]

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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

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Tags: Cpanel and WHM · Installing Linux · Linux Commands · Linux Operating Systems · Linux Software / Scripts · Linux Tricks

How to Tell What Type of Memory Your Linux PC Has Installed

May 6th, 2012 by EZ linux · No Comments

Here it is, the magic code. Just run this as root and it will give you the ddr, mhz, and much more. sudo dmidecode –type memory

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Tags: Cheat Sheets · Cpanel and WHM · Hardware · Linux Tricks

How to increase upload limit for PhpMyAdmin on a Cpanel server

April 22nd, 2012 by EZ linux · No Comments

By default, PhpMyAdmin in a Cpanel server imposes an upload limit of 50MB. So importing a SQL file larger than 50MB may time out. Cpanel PhpMyAdmin uses the php.ini file /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/etc/phpmyadmin/php.ini. To increase upload limit, change values of upload_max_filesize and post_max_size in this php.ini file. Typically, you may set value of post_max_size to twice the [...]

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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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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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Tags: Linux Commands · Linux Software / Scripts · Linux Tricks