Warning: This is not to be done by the unexperienced admins bad things could happen. Hire someone.

Sometimes if you get hacked or boot with a bad kernel you need to have the datacenter mount your old drive, and install a new one with a fresh installation of redhat. First things first lets make sure you have an updated kernel, we will do it with up2date for ease of use:

up2date -f kernel

check the grub.conf /or lilo config to ensure the settings are right. (if using lilo run this command aswell /sbin/lilo -v -v and check for errors)

Now reboot the server

shutdown -r now
I. Mount the backup Drive

First check to see if there are any drives mounted.

df -h

You should get something simular to this if it isent mounted yet:

[root@localhost root]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 37G 1.4G 33G 4% /
/dev/hda1 101M 7.7M 88M 9% /boot
none 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm
[root@localhost root]#

if it is mounted you will see something like this:

-bash-2.05b# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 53G 31G 20G 62% /
/dev/hda1 99M 14M 80M 15% /boot
none 248M 0 248M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdc3 53G 31G 20G 61% /mnt/old
-bash-2.05b#

as you can see hdc3 is the old drive, and it is mounted as /mnt/old. Yours will be diffent possibly. But keep in mind you need to know the mount point for the backup drive for the following steps.

Lets mount if not already mounted.

fdisk -l

check for additional drives, in this tutorial we will use /dev/hdc3.

mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt/old

now that the drive is mounted you can browse files like:

ls /mnt/old/home

II. Rsync the files

Do these commands one by one,

rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/usr/local/apache/conf /usr/local/apache
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/var/named /var
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/home/* /home
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/usr/local/cpanel /usr/local
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/var/lib/mysql /var/lib
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/var/cpanel /var
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/usr/share/ssl /usr/share
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/var/ssl /var
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/var/log/bandwidth /var/log
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/usr/local/frontpage /usr/local
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/var/spool/cron /var/spool

Next Step - Get some important files from etc:

cd /mnt/old/etc
rsync -vrplogDtH secondarymx domainalias valiases vfilters exim* proftpd* pure-ftpd* passwd* group* *domain* *named* wwwacct.conf cpupdate.conf quota.conf shadow* *rndc* ips* ipaddrpool* ssl /etc

Now would be a good time to change your password for root:

passwd

III. Updating software and restarting services

/scripts/upcp
/scripts/updatenow
/scripts/sysup
/scripts/fixeverything
/scripts/exim4
/scripts/easyapache
/scripts/securetmp

This is needed to update cpanel information. Please note, sshd might fail and not start after running fixeverything. You have to login to whm, and go to the rpm installer and "FORCE" install opensshd-server, opensshd, opensshd-client and then restart sshd from whm.

IV. Restarting services

/scripts/restartsrv httpd
/scripts/restartsrv cpanel
/scripts/restartsrv mysql
/scripts/restartsrv named
/scripts/restartsrv exim

After you are pleased that everything is working fine, restart the entire server.

This tutorial works 100% on redhat, 7.3, 8.0, 9.0 and fedora. it has been tested on those boxes. But remember, if you dont know what your doing them hire someone to check your server out.

If you check out your PHP.ini file you'll notice that your mail program is set to: /usr/sbin/sendmail and 99.99% of PHP scripts will just use the built in mail(); function for PHP - so everything will go through /usr/sbin/sendmail =)

Requirements:
We assume you're using Apache 1.3x, PHP 4.3x and Exim. This may work on other systems but we're only tested it on a Cpanel/WHM Red Hat Enterprise system.

Time:
10 Minutes, Root access required.

Step 1)
Login to your server and su - to root.

Step 2)
Turn off exim while we do this so it doesn't freak out.
/etc/init.d/exim stop

Step 3)
Backup your original /usr/sbin/sendmail file. On systems using Exim MTA, the sendmail file is just basically a pointer to Exim itself.
mv /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail.hidden

Step 4)
Create the spam monitoring script for the new sendmail.
pico /usr/sbin/sendmail

Paste in the following:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

# use strict;
use Env;
my $date = `date`;
chomp $date;
open (INFO, ">>/var/log/spam_log") || die "Failed to open file ::$!";
my $uid = $>;
my @info = getpwuid($uid);
if($REMOTE_ADDR) {
print INFO "$date - $REMOTE_ADDR ran $SCRIPT_NAME at $SERVER_NAME n";
}
else {

print INFO "$date - $PWD -  @infon";

}
my $mailprog = '/usr/sbin/sendmail.hidden';
foreach  (@ARGV) {
$arg="$arg" . " $_";
}

open (MAIL,"|$mailprog $arg") || die "cannot open $mailprog: $!n";
while (<STDIN> ) {
print MAIL;
}
close (INFO);
close (MAIL);

Step 5)
Change the new sendmail permissions
chmod +x /usr/sbin/sendmail

Step 6)
Create a new log file to keep a history of all mail going out of the server using web scripts
touch /var/log/spam_log

chmod 0777 /var/log/spam_log

Step 7)
Start Exim up again.
/etc/init.d/exim start

Step 8)
Monitor your spam_log file for spam, try using any formmail or script that uses a mail function - a message board, a contact script.
tail - f /var/log/spam_log

Sample Log Output

Mon Apr 11 07:12:21 EDT 2005 - /home/username/public_html/directory/subdirectory -  nobody x 99 99   Nobody / /sbin/nologin

Log Rotation Details
Your spam_log file isn't set to be rotated so it might get to be very large quickly. Keep an eye on it and consider adding it to your logrotation.

pico /etc/logrotate.conf

FIND:
# no packages own wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
monthly
create 0664 root utmp
rotate 1
}

ADD BELOW:

# SPAM LOG rotation
/var/log/spam_log {
monthly
create 0777 root root
rotate 1
}

Notes:
You may also want to chattr + i /usr/sbin/sendmail so it doesn't get overwritten.

Enjoy knowing you can see nobody is actually somebody

How to install MRTG on Your Cpanel Server

The Multi Router Traffic Grapher or just simply MRTG is free software for monitoring the traffic load on network links. It allows the user to see traffic load on a network over time in graphical form. MRTG generates HTML pages containing graphical images which provide a LIVE visual representation of this traffic. How does it work? MRTG uses the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to send requests with two object identifiers (OIDs) to a device. The device, which must be SNMP-enabled, will have a management information base (MIBs) to lookup the OID's specified. After collecting the information it will send back the raw data encapsulated in an SNMP protocol. MRTG records this data in a log on the client along with previously recorded data for the device. The software then creates an HTML document from the logs, containing a list of graphs detailing traffic for the selected device.

This is a "How to" for installing MRTG (2.9.17) on a cpanel server. Let's start:

# Download the software (http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/) and move it to your download folder on your server. Or use the RPM installation information further down below.
cd /root/downloads

# Unninstall any older version in case we have an old/broken installation
rpm -e mrtg

# Get the latest rpm. The RPM might not reflect the latest available stand-alone version
wget http://www.dedicated-resources.com/files/mrtg-2.9.17-1cpanel.i386.rpm
# Or grab a newer version from here: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=mrtg

# Installing the application
rpm -Uvh mrtg-2.9.17-1cpanel.i386.rpm

# Moving libpng
cd /usr/lib
mv libpng.so.2 libpng.so.2.OLD

# Creating the symlink
ln -s libpng.so.3 libpng.so.2

# Edit language at and specify only "en_US"
pico /etc/sysconfig/i18n

# Restarting MRTG
service mrtg restart

# Configure MRTG to allow only your local IP to see the reports at http://IP/mrtg - Important: If your local IP changes due to DHCP very often, you should skip this step.
# This can be happening often when being on DSL.

pico /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf

#Search for the line (CTRL+W):
# It should look like this:
Options Indexes FollowSymlinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
#After the last line () paste this and change allowed IPs:
order deny,allow
allow from [ SERVER IP ]
allow from [YOUR LOCAL IP]
deny from all
# Restarting httpd
service httpd restart

# Let's put MRTG to start with the system
chkconfig --level 0123456 mrtg on

# Important: Add MRTG to the up2date skip-list of your server. If you don't do this, after the system updates your MRTG installation will be broken.
up2date --configure
# Select the skip-list option
# Add mrtg to the skip-list
"mrtg*"
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2. Change to the /home directory:

# cd /home

3. Run the following command: (this may take a while depending on the size of your site)

# /scripts/pkgacct USERNAME

(NOTE: USERNAME is the name of the user account not domain in cPanel).

4. Move the resulting file to the home directory of your primary user:

# mv /home/cpmove-USERNAME.tar.gz /home/primaryuser/cpmove-USERNAME.tar.gz

5. Change permissions of the file:

# chmod 755 /home/primaryuser/cpmove-USERNAME.tar.gz

6. Login to the destination server and su - to root (do not forget the - after su).

7. Change to the /home directory (see step #2).

8. Run the following command:

# /scripts/restorepkg USERNAME

**You may want to delete the "cpmove-USERNAME.tar.gz" from both servers as it may consume a lot of disk space.*

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Do I need a notary?  You cannot have a US notary to notarise a document or signature in another country, because, US notaries can only act in the US state that they are licensed for.

Apostille is a French word which means certification. It is commonly used in English to refer to the legalisation of a document for international use under the terms of the 1961 Hague Convention, an international treaty that abolished the requirement of legalisation for foreign public documents (that previously might have had to be done at a consulate or the Foreign Office where the notary acted). So nowadays documents which have been notarised by a notary public and then certified with an apostille are accepted for legal use in all the nations that have signed the Hague Convention (this is most western countries, including Israel, the USA, the UK but not Canada nor Australia).  The apostille just authenticates the notary’s work.

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