You will first have to refer to your motherboard for the chip that supports hardware sensors.  Any easy way to tell if you computer has hardware sensors; go in the BIOS and see if you can find the CPU temperatures, fan speeds etc.  This will only tell you if your motherboard has hardware sensors. You will still need to find the chip or if your lucky, lm_sensors will find it for you. For a large number of Gigabyte motherboards, the chip is IT871.

If you are using Ubuntu, it is very easy to get lm_sensors hardware sensors working if you know your chipset. Login as root, and follow the simple script below.

• more /proc/cpuinfo
• apt-get install lm-sensors
• sensors-detect  <–Yes to SuperIO!
• adding it87 to /etc/modules  <–your chip may not be it87
• reboot
• sensors

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Did you know you could FTP into a computer that does not have ANY FTP server running? All you do is make a SFTP/SSH FTP connection. You can FTP into ANY box that you can SSH into.  Yes, there is command line sftp, scp, etc, but it is nice to run FileZilla Client, and its FTP GUI on any box that supports SSH. I agree, the FileZilla FTP client is probably one of the best FTP clients you can find, and plus, it is free open source.  Any FTP client that supports SFTP SSH FTP should work. But I do know that FileZilla client does work.

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Modifying your configure flags can break the compilation of Apache. cPanel is not responsible for custom changes and provides no warranty of any kind with this information. Proceed with caution.

EasyApache also allows you to specify any configure option supported by Apache and/or PHP. To add configuration options, simply place the option in the appropriate file (one option per line, format: option=value):

• Apache 1.3.x - /var/cpanel/easy/apache/rawopts/Apache1
• Apache 2.0.x - /var/cpanel/easy/apache/rawopts/Apache2
• Apache 2.2.x - /var/cpanel/easy/apache/rawopts/Apache2_2
• All PHP 4.x versions - /var/cpanel/easy/apache/rawopts/all_php4
• All PHP 5.x versions - /var/cpanel/easy/apache/rawopts/all_php5
• Mod_suPHP - /var/cpanel/easy/apache/rawopts/all_suphp
• Specific PHP Version - /var/cpanel/easy/apache/rawopts/PHP-X.X.X

Configure Option Examples

If the file contains the following lines:

--with-someoption
--path-to-something=/usr/bin/something
--my-option=

The following will be added to the configure line:

--with-someoption --path-to-something=/usr/bin/something --my-option

You’ll notice that the configure line has “–my-option” instead of “–my-option=”. This is because the file is parsed and then properly formatted options are merged into the configure data structure.

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