UPDATE: 1/4/10 After restoring a site in WHM, a client stated his IP addresses in WHM Main >> Account Information >> List Accounts page. In checking, all that was seen was the work ‘Unknown’ in the IP section of the page. This is the 3rd time I have come across this error and have documented…

If you are on a debian-based distro (ubuntu, mint, etc.) or Suse (which it is a tool of) you can run: sudo apt-get install hwinfo (not that kind of tool…) If you are on an RPM based distro (fedora, centos, etc) you can run: yum install hwinfo UPDATE: Ok, so maybe not so much on…

To locate information related to your CPU, use these commands: echo $(cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ‘model name’ | sed -e ‘s/.*: //’ | uniq) = $COUNT awk ‘/model name/ {ORS=””; count++; if ( count == 1 ) print $0; } END { print ” : ” count “\n” }’ /proc/cpuinfo ls /sys/devices/system/cpu dmidecode | less…

Install lshw on RHEL, Fedora, Centos The easiest way to install lshw on a RedHat based system is to get the package from DAG: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/lshw/ If you already have the DAG repository in your sources, just use up2date lshw or yum install lshw based on what package management tool you are using. If not, just…

Magento includes fail: Edit this: /usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/2/capemb/cp_php_magic_include_path.conf

I have seen a rash of hacked accounts recently because of insecure FTP passwords. There are many free tools hackers will use to gain access to a cpanel account in order to exploit the server via spam, shell or iframe redirect. The simlest and most effective solution is to secure these passwords which will stop…

dd progress update While a long `dd’ is running, how can you get a progress update? kill -USR1 `pidof dd` This will send the SIGUSR1 signal to dd, which according to it’s man page causes it print it’s progress to STDERR.

This short article shows you how to automatically create iptables rules to block all connection from one country or more. The blocklist is create with an API that you can use wget to update the blocklist monthly. The API to get the IP addresses to block. First you need to know the code (ISO 3166…

vzctl create 102 –ostemplate centos-4-i386-default vzctl destroy 102 : vzctl create 102 –ostemplate centos-4-i386-default –config vps.basic vzctl set 102 –onboot yes –save: vzctl set 102 –hostname ace.316x.net –save vzctl set 102 –ipadd 208.76.110.211 –save vzctl set 102 –nameserver 208.76.110.194 –save vzctl start 102 vzctl exec 102 service sshd status vzctl exec 102 service sshd start…

Wget is a very cool command-line downloader for Linux and UNIX environments. Don’t be fooled by the fact that it is a command line tool. It is very powerful and versatile and can match some of the best graphical downloaders around today. It has features such as resuming of downloads, bandwidth control, it can handle…