Installing Cacti
Tweet Server monitoring is one of the most important aspects of managing a network. Cacti is a free PHP/MySQL script which can monitor everything from process counts to bandwidth, and is fairly easy to...
View ArticlePreparing server for bare metal restore using R1Soft Live Rescue CD
Tweet Follow these steps to prepare a Linux or Windows server backup system, prodced by R1Soft, for a bare metal restore. 1. Put the R1Soft Live Rescue CD into the machine you are going to restore...
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Installing and configuring Linux CDP Agents
TweetR1Soft CDP is a easy to install and use continous data protection system, primarily targeted at the hosting market. It backups up multiple servers to a central backup server; multiple backup...
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Installing and configuring Windows CDP Agents
TweetR1Soft CDP is a easy to install and use continous data protection system, primarily targeted at the hosting market. It backups up multiple servers to a central backup server; multiple backup...
View ArticleInstalling SSH public key for extra security on your Linux server
Tweet Log into SSH mkdir $HOME/.ssh chmod -R og= $HOME/.ssh cd .ssh nano authorized_keys2 Add your key you created with PuttyGen , make absolutly sure you r key is in one line ONLY , otherwise it wont...
View Articlekernel yum upgrade
Tweetcheck what kernel you are running at the moment uname -a and to upgrade your kernel yum update \kernel* check if your kernel is added to grub cat /boot/grub/grub.conf and then reboot shutdown -rf...
View ArticleProblems with CenotOS5 – cPanel and BIND
Tweet If you have issues with cPanel running CentOS5 with BIND then the easiest way is to downgrade BIND to 9.2.4 The reason you’re having trouble is because CentOS 5 uses bind-9.3 and CentOS 4 uses...
View ArticlecPanel – Manually back up and transfer an account via SSH
TweetSometime accounts are to big to transfer via the WHM transfer feature. Below you can find some steps to do so manually Log into your server and create a cPanel backup for the account...
View ArticleHow to find MAC address in CentOS
TweetOpen SSH and type the following and press Enter: /sbin/ifconfig | grep -i hwaddr The sequence of hexadecimal digits that appears to the right of eth0 HWAddr (e.g. 08:00:27:ED:DA:8b) is your...
View ArticleEasyapache failing on CentOS server
Tweet Had an issue with one on our CentOS cPanel servers running 64 bit and cPanels easyapache upgrade. The folks at cPanel helped out with their usual professional response The cause of the EasyApache...
View ArticleLinux sub directory size info
Tweet Need to know the exact size of your subdirectories in Linux? Just go to the directory , like cd / and try this du -cksh * Related posts: Turning off the default directory listing Linux: hot to...
View ArticleHow to mount and unmount a drive in linux
TweetHow To Mount A Drive In Linux This simple step by step guide will show you how to mount a new hard drive or partitions onto your Linux server Initially you wanna check the hard drives on your...
View ArticleHow can I repair corrupt MySQL tables?
TweetHow can I repair corrupt MySQL tables? Every so often, MySQL tables have a way of corrupting themselves. MySQL offers a quick and painless method of repairing those tables. Login to your server...
View ArticleLinux server tip: force reboot/shutdown
TweetForcing reboot A Linux Server is not Windows XP and if reboot fail you usually still connect by SSH and do something. This commands will show you how to remotely hard reboot machine. Hard reboot...
View ArticleApache logs
TweetIssues with suhosin or mod_security , then best check your Apache error logs tail -f /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log Related posts: How to restart apache Under Linux Apache 2.2.8 customization on...
View ArticleHow to remove Tomcat on cPanel
TweetWant to remove Tomcat from cPanel? Log-into your server as root using ssh: Execute the following command to stop the Tomcat process: # /usr/sbin/stoptomcat …and to remove the next files, enter: #...
View ArticleHow to install CPAN libwww-perl
TweetWhen installing the CSF firewall on your CentOS server, you need to make sure that you have libwww-perl installed This is easily done by installed it with yum on CentOS 5 yum install...
View ArticlecPanel transfer restore error
TweetForcing the restore of a transfered cPanel account , even if the new system says the username is all ready in use /scripts/restorepkg –force –skipres <account.tar.gz> Related posts: Single...
View ArticleFix corrupted RPM database on CentOS 5
TweetIf rpm / yum command hangs during operations or you see error messages – it means your rpm database corrupted. /var/lib/rpm/ stores rpm database just delete the same and rebuild rpm database:...
View ArticleWHM – How To change NameServer Ip
TweetThe file that actually handles WHM > DNS Functions > Nameserver IPs area is at /var/cpanel/nameserverips.yaml location. If you want this to be changed, you’d want to make a backup of that...
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