Common SSH Commands – Linux Shell Commands
We’ve put together some of the more frequently used linux shell commands, and organized them by name so you can easily find a command, their description and how to use it. This guide will continue to...
View ArticleServer Loads Explained
Explaining what server loads really are and how to control them, how to watch loads and signs of server trouble. Server Load Explination The load average tries to measure the number of active processes...
View ArticleHow do I manually kill a process on my Linux server?
Log into your server as the root user and find the process PID that you wish to kill. You can do that by issuing the ps command with the aux options. See example below. ps aux This will display a...
View ArticleSSH: How to Fix Permissions on Files and Directories?
Here are the SSH commands to fix your permissions on a mass level: find ~/public_html -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; find ~/public_html -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; Basically, the format is to find, or...
View ArticleHow to tar/untar, compress/uncompress files/folders using php script
Uploading and downloading files is a chore every webmaster has to cope with on daily basis, but if you do this by compressing the files, uploading the tar or zipped and uncompressing them on server,...
View ArticleSSH: How to Fix Permissions on Files and Directories?
Here are the SSH commands to fix your permissions on a mass level: find ~/public_html -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; find ~/public_html -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; Basically, the format is to find, or...
View ArticleSplit and merge large files
Use the split command to do this: split --bytes=1024m bigfile.iso small_file_ That command will split bigfile.iso into files that are 1024 MB in size (1GB) and name the various parts small_file_aa,...
View ArticleSSH: Backup all databases
You can dump all the databases into a single .sql file like so: mysqldump --all-databases > database_backup.sql Or you can dump them individually to a directory with the date of backup to /home/ by...
View ArticleEscaping a password using mysqldump console
You have to quote the password, like this: mysql -u root -p'PASSWORD' You must do this if the password has any of the following characters: * ? [ < > & ; ! | $ Source:...
View ArticleHow to pause wget downloads in terminal
use wget with the -c option so – wget http://file To pause the download press Ctrl+C To resume the download – wget -c http://file In the same directory of course. Source:...
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