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How to reduce or free space in /usr partition

January 13th, 2010 by EZ linux · 1 Comment

1. Restart the httpd service. This might free a little space some times.
2. Check for apache logs like error_log, access_log , suexec_log in /usr/local/apache/logs . These can either be cleared off or if you need the logs then you can take a zipped copy and keep it aside.
3. Same can be done for the files [...]

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Tags: Cheat Sheets · Linux Tricks

Creating a SSH key

November 26th, 2009 by EZ linux · No Comments

ssh-keygen: password-less SSH login
SSH is often used to login from one system to another without requiring passwords.
This requires you generate your own personal set of private/public ssh keys.
ssh-keygen is used to generate that key pair for you. Here is a session where your own personal private/public key pair is created:
root:~> ssh-keygen -t rsa
Generating public/private rsa [...]

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Have root logins emailed to you

November 24th, 2009 by EZ linux · No Comments

1. Login to your server and su to root, unless you logged in as root already.
2. cd /root (unless your default login folder is already root)
3. pico .bashrc (or use your favorite editor)
4. Scroll to the end of the file then add the following:
echo ‘ALERT – Root Shell Access (YourserverName) on:’ `date` `who` | mail [...]

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Tags: Linux Security · Linux Tricks

Need space on a cpanel server?

November 10th, 2009 by EZ linux · No Comments

Here is some common places you can find some junk to remove:
find /backup/cpbackup/daily -name core.* -exec rm {} \;
find /backup/cpbackup/daily -name *.*.mbox:2, -exec rm {} \;
find /backup/cpbackup/daily -name *.msg” -exec rm {} \;
find /backup/cpbackup/daily -name *.msg” -exec rm {} \;
find /backup/cpbackup/daily/ -name *.*.dwhs1234.dwhs.net:2, -exec rm {} \;
find /backup/cpbackup/daily/ -name *.*.dwhs1234.dwhs.net:2,* -exec rm {} \;
Basically .core [...]

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Tags: Cpanel and WHM · Linux Tricks

PHP handler SuPHP

November 9th, 2009 by EZ linux · 1 Comment

Setting your PHP handler to SuPHP, which will cause PHP scripts to run as the user instead of “nobody”.
Note that it has stricter permissions requirements than the other handlers–files must be 644, directories 755

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

How to find a spammer using nobody on a cpanel server

November 5th, 2009 by EZ linux · No Comments

There is two ways I know to accomplish this, the first seems to be better but I am still testing it out.
The first way is another great script from Script Mantra called Sendmail Logger. Once installed and php has Mail Headers compiled with it then you can see easily whats being sent through nobody or [...]

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Tags: Cpanel and WHM · Linux Tricks

Creating a info.php page

October 27th, 2009 by EZ linux · No Comments

Simple create a file called info.php in your public_html folder then add this codd to the page and save:
<html>
<head>
<title>PHP Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
</body>
</html>

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Tags: Linux Software / Scripts · Linux Tricks

301 redirect

October 12th, 2009 by EZ linux · No Comments

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^dwhs.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.dwhs.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
This will redirect dwhs.com to www.dwhs.com (change dwhs.com to your domain name)
Step by step for DWHS Customers:

log into your cpanel: www.your-main-domain.com/cpanel/
Click file manager and click the option to see hidden files
Make sure your in the folder public_html or www
Then create a new file called:  .htaccess
Then in edit [...]

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Apache error log settings

September 29th, 2009 by EZ linux · No Comments

This directive adjusts the verbosity of the messages recorded in the server’s error logs (see the ErrorLog directive). The following levels are available, in order of decreasing significance: emerg (emergencies: system is unusable); alert (action must be taken immediately); crit (critical conditions); error (error conditions); warn (warning conditions); notice (normal but significant condition); info (informational [...]

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Linux rescue CD

September 23rd, 2009 by EZ linux · No Comments

SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It comes with [...]

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Tags: Linux Back Up · Linux Software / Scripts · Linux Tricks