Category: Tasks
cPanel Find and Delete Trash Folders
If you find you have a lot of users with large amounts of files in their Trash in cPanel, you can run the following command from SSH to delete them all in one go!: find /home/*/.trash/* -exec r... Read More
Find and Remove a File or Folder in SSH
Need to find and remove a particular file and/or folder and know the name, but not the location? Use the following command to find and remove it!: find . -name "error_log" -exec rm -rf {} \;... Read More
cPanel Log Locations
cPanel All cPanel logs are located in the folder: /usr/local/cpanel/logs The access_log contains all traffic to WHM, cPanel, and Webmail: /usr/local/cpanel/logs/access_log The error_l... Read More
How To See Which Modules Are Enabled For Apache
How do I see which modules are currently enabled/installed for Apache? You can simply enter the following command from an SSH session to give a list of currently active Apache modules: apachectl -t -D... Read More
Manually Export MySQL Database
How do I manually export or "dump" a MySQL database from command line or SSH? You can dump a MySQL database to the current folder from an SSH session using the following command: mysqldump &... Read More
Search For Specific Text In File
How can I find a specific text string in a file or multiple files from an SSH session? You can use the grep command to easily find text within files. From an SSH session, run the following command: gr... Read More
Bulk Edit DNS Zone On cPanel
How do I bulk edit a DNS zone on cPanel? Changed nameserver name and need to update all the DNS zones on your cPanel server? Using the replace command from an SSH session will make it simple. Just use... Read More
Explanation Of Cron Times
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: * * * * &nbs... Read More
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 -ma... Read More
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 <incre... Read More
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 t... Read More