How to Manage Cphulk From Command line

Manage Cphulk From Command line

Use the following methods to manage cPHulk on your server:-

Debug mode

To enable debug mode for cPHulk, run the following command:-

touch /var/cpanel/hulkd/debug

Check cPHulk's status

You can check cphulk's status from command

"ps aux | grep -i".

this will return a result like :-

1 root 1501 0.0 0.4 34816 5076 ? S 07:58 0:00 cPhulkd - processor

Restart the cPHulk daemon (cphulkd)

To restart the cphulkd daemon, perform either of the following actions:

Perform a soft restart. To do this, run the following command:

/scripts/restartsrv_cphulkd

Perform a hard restart and force the system to flush the daemon's memory. To do this, run the following command:

/scripts/restartsrv_cphulkd --stop; 
/scripts/restartsrv_cphulkd --start

Disable cPHulk

To disable cPHulk via the command line, run the following commands:

/usr/local/cpanel/etc/init/stopcphulkd

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/cphulk_pam_ctl --disable

To disable cPHulk to keep it offline, even after a restart of cPanel & WHM, remove the cPHulk touch file with the following command:

rm /var/cpanel/hulkd/enabled

Log files

cPHulk stores its logs in the following files: 1 - /usr/local/cpanel/logs/cphulkd.log 2 - /usr/local/cpanel/logs/cphulkd_errors.log

IP address management

Add IP addresses to the whitelist

For example, to add the 192.168.0.20 IP address to the whitelist, run the following command as the root user:

/scripts/cphulkdwhitelist 192.168.0.20

Add IP addresses to the blacklist.

For example, to add the 192.168.0.20 IP address to the blacklist, run the following command as the root user:

/scripts/cphulkdblacklist 192.168.0.20

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