cPanel useful scripts

[omeeinter]

Some of the important scripts function of cPanel at /scripts:

To create new email account use
# ./addpop
And follow the steps

# ./checkbadconf
Checks /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf for bad users.

# ./fixcommonproblems
- Attempt to fix the most common problems.

# ./fixeverything
- Fix common problems and quotas.

# ./fixmysql
- Fixes problems with mySQL.

Nameserver, DNS related scripts to troubleshoot:

# ./fixnamed - Updates bind to handle many DNS zones (more than 512).
# ./fixrndc

securetmp - Adds securetmp to system startup.

Domains:

listsubdomains - List subdomains.
park - Parks a domain.
newdomains*
newdomains-sendmail*
rebuildparkeddomains*
updateuserdomains*

FrontPage:
checkfpkey - Checks for the FrontPage suid key
setupfp5 - Install FrontPage 5 (2002) installer on an account.
updatefrontpage - Updates FrontPage
fixfrontpageperm – Fix the frontpage permission issues

GD:

checkgd - Checks to see if GD is built.
cleangd - Cleans up old GD installs and reinstalls GD
installgd - Builds GD.

Zend:

installzendopt - Install zend optimzer.

ImageMagick:

checkimagemagick
cleanimagemagick
fetchimagemagick
installimagemagick

Perl:

fixperl - Symlink /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl.
fixperlscript - Makes sure a perlscript includes all corresponding modules.
fixsuexeccgiscripts - Fix CGI scripts that are broken after suexec

Mail:

fixpop - Fix a POP account and reset password.
fixspamassassinfailedupdate - Reinstalls a failed spamassassin update.
fixvaliases
listcheck - Checks mailing lists for issues.
mailperm - Fix almost any mail permission problem.
mailscannerupdate - Updates MailScanner
mailtroubleshoot - Guided mail fix.
patcheximconf - Fixes exim.conf
reseteximtodefaults - Resets exim's default settings.
resetimappasswds - Resets all imap passwords.

Quote:

fixquotas - Fix quotas.

ftpquaotacheck - Runs quota checking for all ftp users.

Stats:
fixwebalizer - Repair a Webalizer that has stopped updating.


Logs:

fixsubdomainlogs
runstatsonce - Runs statistics (should be used from the crontab).
runweblogs - Run analog/webalizer/etc. for a user.

SSL:

gencrt - Generate a .crt and .csr file.

Database:

installpostgres - Installs PostrgeSQL.
mysqladduserdb - Create a MySQL databse and user.
mysqlconnectioncheck - Attempts to connect to MySQL, restarts SQL if necessary.
mysqldeluserdb - Delete a MySQL databse and user.
mysqlpasswd - Change MySQL password.
mysqlrpmpingtest - Checks your connection speed for downloading

Service restart:

restartsrv - Restart a service.
restartsrv_apache - Restart apache.
restartsrv_bind - Restart bind.
restartsrv_clamd - Restart clamd.
restartsrv_courier - Restart courier imap.
restartsrv_cppop - Restart cppop.
restartsrv_entropychat - Restart entropy chat.
restartsrv_exim - Restart exim.
restartsrv_eximstats - Restart exim statistics.
restartsrv_ftpserver - Restart your ftp server.
restartsrv_ftpserver~ - (INTERNAL)
restartsrv_httpd - Restart httpd.
restartsrv_imap - Restart impad.
restartsrv_inetd - Restart inetd.
restartsrv_interchange - Restart Interchange Shopping Cart.
restartsrv_melange - Restart melange chat.
restartsrv_mysql - Restart mysqld.
restartsrv_named - Restart named.
restartsrv_postgres - Restart postgresql.
restartsrv_postgresql - Restart postgresql.
restartsrv_proftpd - Restart proftpd.
restartsrv_pureftpd - Restart pure-ftpd.
restartsrv_spamd - Restart spamd.
restartsrv_sshd - Restart sshd.
restartsrv_syslogd - Restart syslogd.
restartsrv_tomcat - Restart tomcat.
restartsrv_xinetd - Restart xinetd.

To upgrade the cPanel(WHM) kindly use the script:

# ./upcp –force

[Alexandre]

Thank you

[whcdavid]

Excellent. Thank you for sharing with us.

[Linux]

Nice one. Thanks for sharing!

[Alexandre]

btw, it would be better don't use "fixeverything" ))

[Athlon]

It is very useful. Thanks a lot for sharing it.

[marryroy]

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[Sphexa]

Great article and all scripts are very good!

[SiberForum]

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