When cPanel & WHM is installed, a number of predefined scripts become available in your server’s /scripts directory. One can use any of the scripts simply by typing its location in a terminal session. For example, if we wanted to run the update script, we would type:
/scripts/upcp
The available scripts are:-
build_maxemails_config — Sets limits on the amount of email that users can send from domains on your server. easyapache — Upgrades and reinstalls Apache. phpextensionmgr — Manages PHP extensions.
*up — Updates a service. The following update scripts are available for the services noted: courierup — Courier mail server. cpaddonsup — cPanel’s addon scripts. dovecotup — Dovecot mail server. eximup — Exim mail exchanger. ftpup — FTP servers (ProFTP and Pure-FTP). imapup — IMAP mail server. mysqlup —MySQL service. nsdup — BIND nameserver. phpup — Current version of PHP. suphpup — SuPHP tool for handling PHP requests.
restartsrv_* — Restarts a service. simply replace the asterisk (*) in restartsrv_* with the term: apache — Apache web server. bind — BIND nameserver software. chkservd — cPanel’s TailWatch log processing service. clamd — ClamAV anti-virus software. courier — Courier mail server. cpdavd — cPanel’s WebDAV server. cppop — cPanel’s POP server. dovecot — Dovecot mail server. entropychat — Entropy chat client. exim — Exim mail exchanger. eximstats — Exim mail statistics tracker. ftpserver — FTP server. httpd — Apache web server. imap — IMAP server. inetd — Super-server daemon for managing Internet services. interchange — Interchange e-commerce software. ipaliases — IP aliasing software. melange — Melange chat client. mysql — MySQL database server. named — BIND nameserver software. nsd — Open-source NSD nameserver daemon. postgres — PostgresSQL database service. postgresql — PostgreSQL database service. proftpd — ProFTP server daemon. pureftpd — Pure-FTP server daemon. rsyslogd — Open-source log forwarder daemon. spamd — Spam-deferral daemon. sshd — Secure shell daemon. syslogd — Log forwarder daemon. tailwatchd — cPanel’s TailWatch log processing service. tomcat — Apache Tomcat service. xinetd — Open-source super-server daemon.
addpop — Adds a POP account. delpop — Removes a POP account. wwwacct — Adds a cPanel account. killacct - Removes a cPanel account. killdns - Removes a DNS zone.
restorepkg — Restores a package. cpbackup — Runs backups as configured in WHM >> Main >> Backup >> Configure Backup. pkgacct — Creates a cPanel backup of an account. upcp — Updates cPanel and WHM. upcp-running — Specifies whether a upcp command is running. setupmailserver — Allows you to switch between mailservers. setupftpserver — Allows you to switch between FTP servers. setupnameserver — Allows switching between DNS servers.
checkperlmodules — Contains a list of standard CPAN modules to install on cPanel servers. This script is used in conjunction fixperlscript - Allows to specify a Perl script that needs to be scanned and repaired. realperlinstaller, below. This script can be used with the following arguments: --force will reinstall every module, regardless of whether or not it is working. --full will ensure that all modules are present as opposed to only checking for essential modules.
realperlinstaller — A wrapper script that automates the installation of Perl CPAN modules. suspendacct — Suspends an account. unsuspendacct — Unsuspends an account. runweblogs — Updates statistics for a user. runstatsonce — Updates statistics for all users. makecpphp — Re-installs cPanel’s internal PHP. portsup — Updates ports (FreeBSD® systems only). check_users_my_cnf — Check user accounts for ~/.my.cnf files that do not work and disable them. This script only returns output when it detects a bad .my.cnf. comparegdbm — Compare the contents of 2 GDBM files. It is required to specify the 2 GDBM files if one wishes to compare after the script. For example: /scripts/comparegdbm $file1 $file2 where the $file1 and $file2 represent the 2 files you wish to compare.
autorepair - For repairing spam database, horde patch etc. builddovecotconf - Builds Dovecot conf file. buildeximconf - Builds Exim conf file. buildhttpdconf - Builds http conf file.
chcpass - command line password changing script for cPanel servers. eg:- /scripts/chcpass user2 newpassword chkmydns - Performs a simple configuration check of MyDNS. cleanphpsessions - Clear PHP sessions. cphulkdblacklist - To manage blacklists in the command line. eg:- /scripts/cphulkdblacklist 1.1.1.1 cphulkdwhitelist - To manage whitelists in the command line. eg:- /scripts/cphulkdwhitelist 1.1.1.1
installzendopt - Installs Zend Optimizer installgd - Installs GD installsqlite3 - Installs Sqlite3 installpostgres - Installs PostgreSQL installruby - Installs Ruby in the server installimagemagick - Installs ImageMagik on the server.
reinstallmailman — Reinstall MailMan fixmailinglistperms — Repairs permissions for all mailing list files and directories. generate_maildirsize– Fix mailbox size mailperm - Corrects the permissions of the user mail directories. makecpphp - Compile cpanel php phpini - Rebuilds php.ini
rebuildippool - Rebuild Ip Address Pool. rebuildhttpdconf - Rebuilds the HTTP conf. update_db_cache- This script updates the mysql database usage. ipusage - Display IP usage Report. whoowns - Display which user owns a particular domain. updatenameserverips - Updates the nameserver IP addresses in the server. updateuserdomains — Update /etc/userdomains file sysup — Syncup Cpanel RPM Updates quicksecure — Kill Potential Security Problem Services
fixwebalizer — Run this if a user’s stats stop working fixquotas — Fix account’s quota fixhome — Fix Permissions on accounts fixndc — To try and fix domain controller findtrojans — Locate Trojan Horses
