New to setting up cron jobs and need to know what each digit means? The following is an example of each digit and its function: * * * * * command to be executed | | | | | | | | | +—– day of week (0 – 6) (Sunday=0) | | | […]
Explanation Of Cron Times
Month: July 2015
Find And Remove Old cPanel Backups
How do I find and remove old cPanel backups? Use the following command from an SSH session to find all backups that are older than 60 days and delete them: find /backup/weekly/incremental/accounts -maxdepth 1 -type d -ctime +60 -exec rm -rf {} \; In the above example we find all weekly incremental backups that are […]
Rebuild Named.conf
How do I fix my cPanel DNS configuration or rebuild named.conf? Running the following script from an SSH session will fix most issues when your named.conf file becomes corrupt: cd /etc;mv named.conf named.old;/scripts/rebuilddnsconfig;service named restart
cPHulk Whitelist IP Address From SSH
How to whitelist IP address in cPHulk from the command line? From an SSH session, run the following command: /scripts/cphulkdwhitelist <ipaddress> Where <ipaddress> is the IP address you wish to whitelist.
CloudLinux Lvestats Not Working
How to fix CloudLinux Lvestats when they stop working? Run the following command from an SSH session; service lvestats stop;killall -9 lvestats-server;rm -rf /var/lve/lveinfo.db;service lvestats start If you receive a sqlite error, then run: yum reinstall sqlite3 And then run first command again.
Create Cpmove File From Incremental cPanel Backup
How to create a cpmove file from a cPanel incremental backup? A cpmove file can be created by running the following command from an SSH session: tar -zcf /home/cpmove-<username>.tar.gz <incremental-files-path> Replace <username> with the cPanel account username and <incremental-files-path> with the physical path of the incremental backup files.
cPanel Package Account
How to package (make a full account backup) a cPanel account from SSH? From an SSH session, run the following command: /scripts/pkgacct <username> <destination> Where <username> is the username of the client account to backup and <destination> is the location which you would like to place the completed backup file (saved as *.tar.gz).
Change All Folders To 755 And Files To 644
How to reset file/folder permissions to folder to 755 and files to 644? Run the following command from an SSH session: chmod -R ugo-x,u+rwX,go+rX,go-w <path> Where <path> is the physical path of the folders/files you wish to change
How To Make Sure Tmp Folder On cPanel Is Secure?
Securing the /tmp folder on cPanel is easy. cPanel has a script that will do this for you. With root access, using an SSH seesion, run the following command: /scripts/securetmp Once complete, you will need to reboot, so run: reboot
Install Comodo WAF
How to install Comodo WAF mod_security firewall? What is Comodo WAF? Comodo WAF is a software based web application filter for use mod_security on cPanel based systems. It provides a large set of preconfigured rules for mod_security to block most common attacks and exploits. To install Comodo WAF, you must first register an account with […]