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Category Archives: Server Health & Status

Install csf for a solid firewall on your cPanel server

Posted on April 22, 2011 by John

One of the first things you’ll no doubt realize as you begin down the path of learning to be a cPanel system administrator is that your server seems to be pretty much constantly under attack.  There are nefarious types all … Continue reading →

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See who’s logged into your Dovecot mail server at any time with this easy fix

Posted on April 7, 2011 by John

In WHM, if you go to System Health -> Process Manager or System Health -> Show Current Running Processes, you can easily see how many instances of POP3 or IMAP are being used at any given time (i.e., how many … Continue reading →

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What are those constant, mysterious GTUBE spam entries in my server’s mail logs?

Posted on March 23, 2011 by John

If you ever go through your mail logs (you’ll find them at /var/log/exim_mainlog and /var/log/maillog), you might be surprised to find these entries repeating themselves every 3 to 5 minutes in your logs: Mar 20 04:13:12 servername spamd[5757]: spamd: connection … Continue reading →

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Get automatic email or text message alerts when your server load is too high

Posted on March 13, 2011 by John

I’ll be discussing server load in an upcoming post, so I wanted to provide everyone with this handy little bash script for automatically checking your server load and sending you an email and a text message if it goes over … Continue reading →

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Allow users to access Webalizer stats without a cPanel login – for WordPress users

Posted on March 12, 2011 by John

In my last article, I revealed how to give a client a user/password to access ONLY Webalizer statistics and no other part of cPanel.  I also mentioned that it WOULD NOT work for most WordPress installs due to the way … Continue reading →

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Allow users to access Webalizer stats without needing a cPanel login – for Non-WordPress Users

Posted on March 11, 2011 by John

I had a client that I couldn’t trust to log into cPanel and not screw something up accidentally.  Yet, this client wanted to be able to see his website statistics in Webalizer.  This created a dillema: how do I give … Continue reading →

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Get a daily email with your server’s load averages since last reboot

Posted on March 10, 2011 by John

Here’s an easy way to get a simple, short, daily email with the load averages for your server (calculated since the last time the server was rebooted). 1. LOG IN via SSH as ROOT. 2. Run this command to create … Continue reading →

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A super-easy script to quickly check your server’s status

Posted on March 6, 2011 by John

The script I’m about to show you is not mine; but it is so useful I just had to share it with you.  I wanted an easy way to check on the basic status of my cPanel server without having … Continue reading →

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