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How to block brute force attacks against wp-login.php on a Cpanel server using CSF

akamaras — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 22:52:14 +0000

Over the last few years there have been massive brute force attacks against wordpress sites wp-login.php. A quick search for a way of dealing with these attacks, returned methods that used mod_security to identify the attack and then ban the …

Nagios – check_rbl – No output returned from plugin

akamaras — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:59:04 +0000

Recently I faced problems setting up check_rbl v1.3.0 plugin at my nagios 3.4.1. From the gui the state of the check would turn to UNKNOWN and the Status Information would return “No output returned from plugin” Running the plugin from …

1 bad minute errors in crontab file can’t install

akamaras — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:13:29 +0000

I had multiple cases where cpanel accounts were getting the error message in the title, when users were trying to save a cronjob. All of these accounts were previously transferred from plesk servers. To fix this just enter the users …

Captcha for virtuemart product inquiry to avoid spam

akamaras — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:29:37 +0000

This how to has been successfully implemented on Joomla 1.5.26 and Virtuemart 1.1.9. It will show you how to place an easy to use captcha for virtuemart product inquiry. If you want to add extra security, you can use reCaptcha …

Linux script to check if your hard disk is nearly full

akamaras — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:40:16 +0000

Here is a simple script that will check if your specified partition is almost full and will notify you if it is. In order to have an email send, you must have mailx installed, for installation check my post here. …

ro.me

akamaras — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:14:27 +0000

ok, this must be the most impresive web-site I’ve ever seen. Technologies being used among others are webGL, html5 & java scripts The future? Yeap, I do believe so. Most of my clients that don’t have any big experience over …

Howto backup cpanel via rsync

akamaras — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:50:19 +0000

Cpanel has a nice backup system especially in case you’ll have to restore the server. What I don’t like about it is the absence of ssh as a protocol to transfer the data to a remote server. There are two …

script to place webalizer stats outside cpanel

akamaras — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:25:32 +0000

Here is a script I made for my cpanel servers, to place webalizer stats outside cpanel. Users will be able to goto http://www.mydomain.com/stats and see their webstats. NOTE: This script is for the server administrator, if you have a cpanel …

Linux server info script

akamaras — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:04:59 +0000

Here is a script that will quickly provide you information about your linux server such as cpu model, frequency, number of cores, amount of ram & swap, system uptime and test server download & I/O speed cpu, ram and system …

linux script to check if a service is running and start it, if it’s stopped

akamaras — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:11:18 +0000

Here is a simple script that will check if your specified service is running and will start it if it’s stopped. You will have to replace “replace_me_with_a_valid_service” with the name of the service you want to check #!/bin/bash service=replace_me_with_a_valid_service if …