From cyberciti.biz The netstat command and pipe feature can be used to dig out information about a particular IP address connection. You can find out total established connections, closing connection, SYN and FIN bits and much more. You can also display summary statistics for each protocol using netstat. This is useful to find out if…

From fsdaily.com In many articles they require you to add a PPA to get the latest version of programs. PPAs are very useful, but when missing PPA keys pile up, it’s not exactly the easiest of situations to take care of. To get a PPA key, you normally have to go the Terminal and type…

Google Analytics is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. Powerful, flexible and easy-to-use features now let you see and analyze your traffic data in an entirely new way. With Google Analytics, you’re more prepared to write better-targeted ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives and create…

Monitoring Hard Disks with SMART From linuxjournal.com It’s a given that all disks eventually die, and it’s easy to see why. The platters in a modern disk drive rotate more than a hundred times per second, maintaining submicron tolerances between the disk heads and the magnetic media that store data. Often they run 24/7 in…

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In order to temporarily disable SElinux, you will need to run this commands; setenforce 0 SELinux will be turned back on after a reboot. In order to permanently disable SElinux, you will need to edit this file; vi /etc/selinux/config #—-[edit the option like this: ]——- SELINUX=disabled —————- and then reboot the server. Your server should…

You should be able to use the most recent versions of cPanels version of EasyApache to install IonCube. If not The below procedures will work. This script will do the same thing as described below. ioncube_install.sh uname -a to determine if x86_64 or x86 then get source from http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php. Copy the link location of the…

ntop is a network traffic probe that shows the network usage, similar to what the popular top Unix command does. ntop is based on libpcap and it has been written in a portable way in order to virtually run on every Unix platform and on Win32 as well. ntop users can use a a web…

If after upgrading your mysql, you get the informational error in phpmyadmin; “Your PHP MySQL library version 4.1.22 differs from your MySQL server version 5.0.87. This may cause unpredictable behavior.” Check which versions of mysql are installed on the server by running the command rpm -qa |grep MySQL This should give you a response similar…

If you ever run into a problem where you have phpMyadmin open and cannot find where to create a database, because it is simply not there, ssh into your server and from the command line run; vim /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php look for the following lines in the file; (may be towards the bottom) // cpanel: cases 36079,…