Finding out where a package is located can be useful sometimes. In our example, we will consider the wp-cli package. We had on a server three installations of wp-cli. One was installed by default by cPanel, another two were installed…
As a web hosting server admin, you want to keep your machine up-to-date. In RedHat/CentOS, you will use the yum tool to keep your packages updated. What is yum?yum is the primary tool for getting, installing, deleting, querying, and managing…
Running your web hosting server will require many times to run commands as the root user. Many admins choose to block direct root logins, so first, you will need to log in as a normal user and then switch to…
You installed CentOS with the GUI and you want to remove it later? Instead of removing it, you can just switch the system from GUI to the terminal. For this, we will use systemd targets. Below are the systemd targets…
The default login password prompt interval is 60 seconds in CentOS. CentOS login screen You can adjust this value by modifying the LOGIN_TIMEOUT value in the file /etc/login.defs. LOGIN_TIMEOUT (number)Max time in seconds for login. login.defs man page Just edit the…
In this article, we will show you how to create and remove CentOS users/accounts. We will not create/delete cPanel accounts here! You must be logged in as root to be able to create new accounts. There can be situations when…