A few commands to help out on the command line / SSH login
ls - Displays everything in the current directory ls -a - Displays all files, including hidden ls -la - Displays all files, long with the size and timestamp tr -zxpf - Uncompresses tr.gz files tr -xpf - Uncompresses .tr files gunzip - Uncompresses .gz files cp - Copies a file to new file mv - Moves file to a new file, or rename mkdir - Creates directory rmdir - Deletes directory rm - Deletes file rm -rf - Deletes directory cd Moves to directory cd .. Moves to lower directory cd ~ Moves to your home directory cd - Moves to the previous directory pwd - Displays the current directory pico - Edits file ftp - Connect to FTP server lynx - View webpage df -c Displays the hard drive stats quota - Displays your quota uptime - Displays the uptime of the server uname - Displays the operating system stats whoami - Displays your info who - Displays others connected to the server last - Displays the last login whereis - Tells where file is located BitchX IRC Client mail - Check your email ps -x Displays processes your running ps - Displays all processes running ps -aux Displays running processes, with CPU/Memory usage kill - Kills process kill -9 - Kills an eggdrop process killall - Kills all running process of the same type whatis - Description of commands man - Displays help on the command nano - Same as Pico top - gives an overall view of what is going on with the server including memory usage, serve load and running processes "q" to exit top
sar -q Gives a report of the process list, 1 minute and 5 minute average load every 10 minutes since midnight server time
tar -zcf filename.tar.gz filename2 Tars up the file or directory of your choice, replace filename.tar.gz with the name you want your tar file to have...with the tar.gz extension on the end and replace file with the file or directory you want to tar up. Can also use a path/to/file for both.
updatedb - Updates the locate/search DB.
netstat -n -p Useful to see who is connected to your server, this also resolves hostnames to IP addresses and the -p switch shows you what each person connected is doing and provides a PID for it if there is one... useful if you need to kill something
find / -user username Replace username with username of one of your account to find all the files that belong to them. Also useful to add the |more switch so you can scroll one screen at a time. Ever have a client who seems to show a lot more files than are actually in their home directory? This is how you find those files and fix them. Common problem is cpmove files that don't get properly deleted and get added to a users account.
/scripts/pkgcct2 username Replace username with user on your system. This should be done from the home directory. Useful for manually backing up an account if whm copy account doesn't work. Then just move (mv) the file to home directory accessible via the web and chown user.user filename and chmod to 750 or 755 and you can wget it from different server if need be.
/scripts/restorepkg username Once you've got the file and need to unpack it you use this command. The file should be in the /home directory to use this though. Remember folks.... username.... not cpmove-username.tar.gz
crontab -e edit the crontab file and see what is set to run in there.
--help Such as tar --help, similar to man it digs up info on any given command.
tail -10 filename gives you the last 10 lines of file. Can change the # to whatever you want.
cp -R fileordirectory path/to/destination. the -R allows you to copy an entire directory to somewhere else.
kill -9 not just for eggdrops... it's called a "hard kill" and handy for killing off any stubborn process that refuses to die.
whereis can also use locate or find (although locate is faster)
killall not just for killing programs.. you can also killall to kill all processes being run by a user. Handy if you have an abuser eating up system resources.
Restart service: service (service name) restart
Stop service: service (service name) stop
Start service: service (service name) start
Status (doesn't work on all): service (service name) status
On RedHat CPanel server, here are the useful services: bandmin chkservd cpanel crond exim httpd mysql named proftpd
To edit root cron jobs crontab -e
To edit users cron jobs crontab -u username -e Replace username with the actual username of the client you want to edit.
/scripts/dddns Add Dns Entry /scripts/ddservlets dd JavaServlets to n account (jsp plugin required) /scripts/dduser Add User /scripts/dmin Run WHM Lite /scripts/pachelimits dd Rlimits (cpu nd mem limits) to apache. /scripts/dnstrnsfer Resync with master DNS Server /scripts/editquota Edit A User's Quota /scripts/finddev Search For Trojans in /dev /scripts/findtrojans Locate Trojan Horses ------------------------- Suggest Usage /scripts/findtrojans < /var/log/trojans /scripts/fixtrojans < /var/log/trojans /scripts/fixcrtwithsuexec Make Interchange work with suexec /scripts/fixinterchange Fix Most Problems with Interchange /scripts/fixtrojans Run on a Trojans horse file created by findtrojans to remove them /scripts/fixweblizer Run this if user's stats stop working /scripts/fixvaliases Fix a broken alias file /scripts/hdpramify Turn on DM and 32bit IDE hard drive access (once per boot) /scripts/initquotas Re-scan quotas. Usually fixes Disk space display problems /scripts/initsuexec Turn on SUEXEC (probably a bad idea) /scripts/installzendopt Fetch + Install Zend Optimizer /scripts/ipusage Display Ipusage Report /scripts/killacct Terminate n Account /scripts/killbdrpms Delete \"Security Problem Infested RPMS\" /scripts/mailperm Fix Various Mail Permission Problems /scripts/mailtroubleshoot attempt to Troubleshoot Mail Problem /scripts/mysqlpsswd Change a Mysql Password /scripts/quicksecure Kill Potential Security Problem Services /scripts/rebuildippool Rebuild Ip address Pool /scripts/remdefssl Delete Nasty SSL entry in apache default httpd.conf /scripts/restartsrv Restart Service (valid services: httpd,proftpd,exim,sshd,cppop,bind,mysql) /scripts/rpmup Syncup Security Updtes from RedHat/Mandrake /scripts/runlogsnow Force webalizer/analog update. /scripts/secureit Remove non-importnt suid binaries /scripts/setupfp4 Instll Frontpage 4+ on an account. /scripts/simpleps Return Simple process list. Useful for finding where cgi scripts re running from. /scripts/suspendacct Suspend an account /scripts/sysup Syncup Cpanel RPM Updates /scripts/ulimitnmed RH 6 only. Install a version of bind to handle many many zones. /scripts/unblockip Unblock n IP /scripts/unsuspendcct UnSuspend an account /scripts/upcp Update Cpanel /scripts/updatenow Update /scripts /scripts/wwwacct Create a New account
top - gives n overall view of what is going on with the server including memory usage, serve load and running processes "q" to exit top
sar -q - gives report of the process list, 1 minute and 5 minute average load every 10 minutes since midnight server time
tar -zcf filenme.tar.gz file Tars up the file or directory of your choice, replace filename.tar.gz with the name you want your tr file to have...with the tar.gz extension on the end and replace file with the file or directory you want to tar up. Can also use a path/to/file for both.
netstat -n -p Useful to see who is connected to your server, this also resolves hostnames to IP addresses and the -p switch shows you what each person connected is doing and provides a PID for it if there is one... useful if you need to kill something
find / -user username Replace username with username of one of your account to find all the files that belong to them. Also useful to dd the |more switch so you can scroll one screen t a time. Ever have a client who seems to show a lot more files than are actually in their home directory? This is how you find those files and fix them. Common problem is cpmove files that don't get properly deleted and get added to a users account.
/scripts/pkgacct2 username Replace username with user on your system. This should be done from the home directory. Useful for manually backing up an account if whm copy account doesn't work. Then just move (mv) the file to home directory accessible via the web and chown user.user filename and chmod to 750 or 755 and you can wget it from different server if need be.
/scripts/restorepkg username Once you've got the file nd need to unpack it you use this command. The file should be in the /home directory to use this though. Remember folks.... username.... not cpmove-username.tar.gz
crontab -e edit the crontab file and see what is set to run in there.
--help Such s tar --help, similar to man it digs up info on any given command.
tail -10 filename gives you the last 10 lines of file. Can change the # to whatever you want.
cp -R file-or-directory path/to/destination. the -R allows you to copy an entire directory to somewhere else.
kill -9 not just for eggdrops... it's called a "hard kill" and handy for killing off any stubborn process that refuses to die.
whereis can also use locate or find (although locate is faster)
killall not just for killing programs.. you can also killall to kill all processes being run by user. Handy if you have an user eating up system resources.
Replace username with the actual username of the client you want to edit. reboot - To restart all services there is no command available. But will do this.
