{"id":16434,"date":"2024-05-21T06:27:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T06:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostvento.com\/kb\/web-hosting\/getting-started-guide\/shared-hosting-quick-start-guide\/how-to-configure-background-process-killer\/"},"modified":"2024-06-15T03:29:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T03:29:40","slug":"how-to-configure-background-process-killer","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/docs\/hosting-faqs\/how-to-configure-background-process-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Configure Background Process Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WHM has the option to be set up to terminate any of the following processes and notify you via email if it detects one. Even though it could be against your rules, malicious people might employ an IRC bouncer on their shell accounts. Even if the bouncer is renamed to seem benign, like &#8220;pine,&#8221; to suggest that the user is merely reading email, WHM still accurately identifies these processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since allowing users to run IRC bots and servers typically results in denial-of-service attacks, please check the names of any programs you do not want running on your server. In fact, we strongly advise that you check every application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Login to your WHM as root &amp; access option&nbsp;<strong>System Health \u00bb Background Process Killer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Background-Process-Killer.jpg\" alt=\"Background Process Killer\" class=\"wp-image-1440\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>List users that you want the process killer to ignore, one per line, in the textbox. Note that root, mysql, named, cpanel, and users with UIDs below 99 are already considered trusted and do not need to be added to this list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our\u00a0<strong>Linux Shared Hosting<\/strong>\u00a0servers already have these processes disabled for maximum security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHM has the option to be set up to terminate any of the following processes and notify you via email if it detects one. Even though it could be against your rules, malicious people might employ an IRC bouncer on their shell accounts. Even if the bouncer is renamed to seem benign, like &#8220;pine,&#8221; to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23377,"menu_order":1055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-16434","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/16434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/16434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16436,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/16434\/revisions\/16436"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/23377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=16434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}