WHM – Change account setup date manually
You can manually edit their /var/cpanel/users file Be sure to run /scripts/updateuserdomains after you do this to rebuild all of cpanels caches that use this file. Views (52) [Total: 1 Average: 5/5]
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Manually generate the notifications to who over disk quota
You can manually generate the notifications all account under a WHM with the following command: Delete `quotawarned` Run the following command `quotacheck` Views (15) [Total: 1 Average: 5/5]
Help Desk Management: What is Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 Help Desk support?
Multi-tiered technical support Technical support is often subdivided into tiers, or levels, in order to better serve a business or customer base. The number of levels a business uses to organize their technical support group is dependent on a business’ needs regarding their ability to sufficiently serve their customers or users. The reason for providing[…]
Find and delete files greater than a given size from the Linux command line
The find command available in GNU/Linux shells is a versatile tool for finding files matching the given conditions in a folder and performing a specific action on the files found. The following command will find all files greater than 1M size in your current folder and ask you if you would like to delete the[…]
Bounced Message “retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period” in WHM/cPanel
If you receive complaints from people sending mail to you with the following error “retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period”, it is likely due to an error with the server sending mail at their end. The Exim Retry Database has likely become corrupt and would need to be fixed[…]
How to change maximum email size in cPanel/WHM
How to change maximum email size in cPanel/WHM There is no max file size limit that can be sent and received, however, cPanel defaults the limit to 50mb. You can change this in cPanel. To change this do the following, Login to cPanel as admin Under Service Configuration, Click “exim Configuration Manager” Click “Advanced Editor”[…]
How to Set a Firewall on cPanel & WHM’s Services
CSF (ConfigServer Security & Firewall) ConfigServer provides the free WHM plugin CSF, which allows you to modify your iptables rules within WHM. It is a stateful packet inspection (SPI) firewall, login and intrusion detection mechanism, and general security application for Linux servers. Important: We do not recommend that you use these examples. Instead, make certain[…]
Restart “spamd” in WHM via SSH
I was facing the issue to restart “spamd”. The error messages was “The system’s command to check or to restart this service failed.” To Fix this issue. Please follow below: Via root SSH access: Please use the following to check if spamd is running: /scripts/restartsrv_spamd –status To restart spamd, the following command may be used:[…]
How To Update the Kernel in CentOS / Red Hat using YUM
Updating the kernel on Red Hat Linux or CentOS Linux is a very simple process. Most commonly you will use the following command in the case of a security vulnerability, or perhaps just to verify that you’re running the most up-to-date kernel: yum -y update kernel In this case, yum is the rpm-based package manager[…]
Linux Find Large Files / Find Files with File Size
How do I find out all large files in a directory? There is no single command that can be used to list all large files. But, with the help of find command and shell pipes, you can easily list all large files. Linux List All Large Files with condition of file size To finds all[…]