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Command to delete the session files from the tmp.

Gunjan — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:42:47 +0000

Basically all the session files stored in the tmp directory and some time due to the excessive connection to mysql, we are facing the tmp directory 100% full problem at that time we can use the following command in cron and remove the session file more then 30 minutes old.

find /tmp -type f -name sess_* -cmin +30 |xargs rm -f

In above command I have used +30 for the 30 minutes, you can use the values as per your requirement.

How to check user who are using boxtrapper?

Gunjan — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:33:52 +0000

Now a days boxtrapper is cause high server load in that case we need to check how many users are really using boxtrapper.You can use following simple command to heck the boxtrapper users.

root@admin[/home]#find /home/*/etc -iname .boxtrapperenable

Run above command in /home and you will found out all the users who are using boxtrapper

How to change nobody ownership to cpanel user?

Gunjan — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:51:04 +0000

First you need to found nobody users files than change it to cPanel main user name so that you can change/edit the files without any problem.But its difficult to check ownership one by one for all files in that case you can use following single command

root@admin[/home/test]#find ./ -user “nobody” | xargs chown test.test

In above command find will check all files owned by nobody user and after that it chown will change the ownership to test.test where test is cPanel user name