How To Use The Background Process Killer in linux dedicated WHM?

Linux Dedicated Server allows you to host multiple websites under your web hosting space. Background  Process Killer interface allows you to select processes that the system will terminate when the UPCP script calls the system maintenance script (/scripts/maintenance) every night. After the system terminates a process, it will send you a notification via email.

1. Login to WHM as root user.

2. Go the System Health option

3. Select the Background process Killer option. Here, you can check all the listed programs. WHM suggest that it is better to select all of these since many of them are related IRC (Internet Relay Chat) which often leads to DDoS attacks.

4. If you want to add exceptions then you can add those in the box one per line. By default WHM ignores root, mysql, named, cpanel, and users with UIDs below 99 and need not be added to the exceptions again.

5. When you are done adding you can click on SAVE to configure the task in WHM. It will send a notification of the process. The process is now setup and configured WHM to kill unwanted background processes.