Important Cpanel scripts to fix issues

Common cPanel /Scripts

Install Zend Optimizer /scripts/installzendopt
Hostname A Entry Missing! /scripts/fixndc then restart bind and apache
Install Cron on New Server /scripts/installrpm anacron vixie-cron ; /etc/rc.d/init.d/crond start
Bandwidth issues /scripts/cleanbw
/scripts/fixwebalizer (To fix problem in webalizer that stop updating stats)
/scripts/fixcommonproblems
/scripts/fixeverything
Fixing Mail List MailMan /usr/local/cpanel/bin/convertmailman2
Reinstall MailMan /scripts/reinstallmailman
Fix Permissions on accounts: /scripts/fixhome
Edit mySQL conf file: pico /etc/my.cnf
Edit php.ini: pico /usr/local/lib/php.ini
Edit Apache Conf: pico /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Checking Real Time Top Processes Login to SSH and run: top
Run cpanel backup /scripts/cpbackup
To try and fix domain controller: /scripts/fixndc

Quotas /scripts/initquotas - takes a while to run
/scripts/resetquotas
/scripts/fixquotas - takes a while to run

/scripts/adddns Add a Dns Entry
/scripts/addfpmail Install Frontpage Mail Exts
/scripts/addservlets Add JavaServlets to an account (jsp plugin required)
/scripts/adduser Add a User
/scripts/admin Run WHM Lite
/scripts/apachelimits Add Rlimits (cpu and mem limits) to apache.
/scripts/dnstransfer Resync with a master DNS Server
/scripts/editquota Edit A User’s Quota
/scripts/finddev Search For Trojans in /dev
/scripts/findtrojans Locate Trojan Horses
Suggest Usage
/scripts/findtrojans > /var/log/trojans
/scripts/fixtrojans /var/log/trojans
/scripts/fixcartwithsuexec Make Interchange work with suexec
/scripts/fixinterchange Fix Most Problems with Interchange
/scripts/fixtrojans Run on a trojans horse file created by findtrojans to remove them
/scripts/fixwebalizer Run this if a user’s stats stop working
/scripts/fixvaliases Fix a broken valias file
/scripts/hdparamify Turn on DMA and 32bit IDE hard drive access (once per boot)
/scripts/initquotas Re-scan quotas. Usually fixes Disk space display problems
/scripts/initsuexec Turn on SUEXEC (probably a bad idea)
/scripts/installzendopt Fetch + Install Zend Optimizer
/scripts/ipusage Display Ipusage Report
/scripts/killacct Terminate an Account
/scripts/killbadrpms Delete “Security Problem Infested RPMS”
/scripts/mailperm Fix Various Mail Permission Problems
/scripts/mailtroubleshoot Attempt to Troubleshoot a Mail Problem
/scripts/mysqlpasswd Change a Mysql Password
/scripts/quicksecure Kill Potential Security Problem Services
/scripts/rebuildippool Rebuild Ip Address Pool
/scripts/remdefssl Delete Nasty SSL entry in apache default httpd.conf
/scripts/restartsrv Restart a Service (valid services: httpd,proftpd,exim,sshd,cppop,bind,mysql)
/scripts/rpmup Syncup Security Updates from RedHat/Mandrake
/scripts/runlogsnow Force a webalizer/analog update.
/scripts/secureit Remove non-important suid binaries
/scripts/setupfp4 Install Frontpage 4+ on an account.
/scripts/simpleps Return a Simple process list. Useful for finding where cgi scripts are running from.
/scripts/suspendacct Suspend an account
/scripts/sysup Syncup Cpanel RPM Updates
/scripts/unblockip Unblock an IP
/scripts/unsuspendacct UnSuspend an account
/scripts/upcp Update Cpanel
/scripts/updatenow Update /scripts
/scripts/wwwacct Create a New Account

/scripts/runweblogs account username for awstats to run manually

Sometimes such behavior of apache/httpd (taking more and more memory until it dies or crashes the server) can be caused by corrupted MySQL database. Try to do the following:
1) Kill the mysql server
/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql stop

2) Repair all SQL databases:
myisamchk -r /var/lib/mysql/*/*.MYI

3) Start mysql again:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql start

Prevent Spamming in Exim/cPanel

(You will have to do this through WHM if you want to make the changes permanent, otherwise any changes will be overwritten during the next WHM/Cpanel update Main >> Service Configuration >> Exim Configuration Editor >> Advanced Editor. You may want to make a copy from the command line first just in case you mess things up ‘cp /etc/exim.conf /etc/exim.conf.bak’)

RBL, or Real-time Blackhole Lists, are lists of IP addresses from known spammers. You can use these lists in Exim to reject email from said spammers using the steps below;

Scroll down to the three text input boxes just below “begin acl”
In the *middle* box find the line ” accept hosts = :” and just after that line insert the following

#**# RBL List Begin
#**#
#
# Always accept mail to postmaster & abuse
#
accept domains = +local_domains
local_parts = postmaster:abuse
#
# Check sending hosts against DNS black lists.
# Reject message if address listed in blacklist.
deny message = ${sender_host_address} is listed at ${dnslist_domain}; See ${dnslist_text}
!hosts = +relay_hosts
!authenticated = *
dnslists = zen.spamhaus.org : bl.spamcop.net
!domains = +local_domains
#**#
#**# RBL List End

Spamassasin
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# vi /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf ‘ you will see the line;

# trusted_networks 212.17.35.

You can uncomment that line and add the IP address of your mailserver and localhost (and whatever other IPs you want to trust);

trusted_networks 127.0.0.1
trusted_networks 66.249.0.28

The other setting I found was whitelist_auth. You can add this anywhere in the /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf. ‘whitelist_auth’ will only work if you are using SPF, DKIM, or DomainKeys to verify senders.

whitelist_auth dave@example.com
whitelist_auth *@spry.com

For more info type ‘perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf’ from the command line.

These settings will help lower the amount of mail that Spamassassin has to process by ignoring all mail coming from your server and any other trusted IP.

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Change all default/catchall addresses from :blackhole: to :fail:

Then to change all default addresses to :fail: we’ll need to run two commands, one to change any :blackhole: settings and the other to change any default addresses that forward to another email address. First run this command in SSH …

Quote:
replace ‘:blackhole:’ ‘:fail:’ — /etc/valiases/*

… this will change any :blackhole: setting to the desired :fail: setting.

Change all default/catchall addresses to :fail:

Then the second command …

Quote:
sed -i ’s/^\*: [^ ]*$/*: :fail: ADDRESS DOES NOT EXIST/g’ /etc/valiases/*

… this will change any setting which sends the unrouted mail to another email address to the desired :fail: setting.

Now, running this command again should reveal no results because we have just changed all settings to :fail: …

Quote:
grep ‘*:’ /etc/valiases/* | egrep -v ‘:fail:’