by benny | Nov 4, 2014 | command-line, continuous-learning, Posted, Server Security
From time to time, ClamAV may appear to not be flagging spam correctly. One step in your troubleshooting process should be to make sure that ClamAV is working as intended. The easiest and quickest way to do this would be with an eicar file. Let’s run though how...
by benny | Aug 31, 2014 | backups, command-line, continuous-learning, cPanel, whm, why though
Dropbox is a fantastic tool for syncing data across multiple physical and virtual locations. You can even set up your WHM server to sync all of your backups to your Dropbox account. Prerequisites: 1) A Dropbox account. 2) Root access to a WHM server. Step one: Create...
by benny | Aug 28, 2014 | command-line, continuous-learning, cPanel, whm
Sometimes when upgrading older versions of cPanel, you may encounter one of cPanel’s upgrade blockers in a way that isn’t anticipated. Last week, I encountered that exact situation in attempting to upgrade a server that was running 11.30, and was ready to...
by benny | Jan 18, 2014 | command-line, continuous-learning, theme customizing, wordpress
In the eStore theme by Elegant Themes we recently wanted to use a different logo on the front page than we did for every other page on a website. It was simple enough to create a child theme and then make our custom header.php. If you aren’t familiar with child...
by benny | Aug 31, 2013 | command-line, continuous-learning
ExplainShell may be my favorite tool for helping us all understand what a given command is doing before we execute it. To test I’ve input a few complex commands and everything I’ve given it has been translated perfectly. For example, use this loop to test...
