Around a year ago I had written up this cute little Perl script that displays details about current Exim mail queue status on a Cpanel server. It not only displays the details but also allow you to make changes to the exim queue. Here’s how the script looks like when executed: root@server1 [~]# ./exim_queue_report.pl EXIM [...]
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Urgent Exim update required on Cpanel servers
December 13th, 2010 
admin Subject: [cPanel-News] Critical: exim security update Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 ============= Summary ============= A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Exim, the mail transfer agent used by cPanel & WHM. ———————– Security Rating ———————– This update has been rated as Critical by the cPanel Security team. Description ———————– Research up to this point indicates the [...]
Install mod_pagespeed in Apache for Cpanel
November 4th, 2010 admin From mod_pagespeed’s docs, I quote: mod_pagespeed is an open-source Apache module that automatically optimizes web pages and resources on them. It does this by rewriting the resources using filters that implement web performance best practices. Webmasters and web developers can use mod_pagespeed to improve the performance of their web pages when serving content with the [...]
How to configure Subversion + Apache [mod_dav_svn.so] in CPanel
August 30th, 2010 admin It is very easy to setup a subversion repository and access it via browser as I found out recently from my own experience. The below case was on a Cpanel server, but you can follow the same method (with some tweaks, of course) on any subversion + apache environment as long as you have the [...]
Chkrootkit Installation Guide
May 23rd, 2009 admin chkrootkit (Check Rootkit) is a common Unix based program intented to help system administrators check their system for known rootkits. It is basically a shell script using common UNIX/Linux tools like strings and grep commands to check core system programs for signatures. If you doubt that your server has been hacked, chkrootkit is what you [...]
How to close Open DNS
May 23rd, 2009 admin This tutorial describes how to close an Open DNS server. An Open DNS server allows anyone to use that server as a DNS lookup server. This is a potential threat and such access must either be blocked, or restricted to a few trusted IPs. This is how it is done. 1. Make a list of [...]
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2 Comments »Ioncube Installation Guide
May 23rd, 2009 admin This article describes how to install ionCube loader extension in PHP. ionCube provides tools for PHP source code protection. Usually, a PHP file is in plain-text format. Which means anyone who has access to the actual PHP file can use a text editor (like vim) to view the source code. If a skilled hacker/programmer gets [...]