Tips & Tricks

Linux Tips & Tricks

How to See the SSH password guesses

First, find the PID of the listening SSH daemon process:
# ps axuww | egrep 'PID|ssh'
Now become root and attach to the running daemon with strace:
# strace -f -e 'read,write' -p12345

Convert 'man' pages to pdf format

Here is the way to convert man pages to PDF format
# man -t man | ps2pdf - > man.pdf

Cpanel Tips & Tricks

Installing imagemagick on a cpanel server

1. Log into your server as root
2. Create a new directory as below :
mkdir /home/cpimins
3. cd /home/cpimins
4. wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/magick.tar.gz
5. tar zxvf magick.tar.gz
6. cd magick
7. /scripts/installrpm ImageMagick
8. /scripts/installrpm ImageMagick-devel
9. sh ./install

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