WebHost Manager User Manual 

Background Process Killer 

Overview 

You can set WebHost Manager to automatically detect and kill any one of the 

following processes (if a process is killed, you will be emailed with information 

about that process): 

BitchX  

bnc 

eggdrop  

generic sniffers 

guardservices 

ircd 

psyBNC 

ptlink 

services 

It is recommended that you do not allow any of these processes to run on your 

servers. You can also add trusted users who will not have these processes killed. 

Steps 

1

 To access the 

System Health Me

c

n

Panel

u

, click on 

System Health

, on the main screen 

of your WebHost Manager interface. 

2

 Click on 

Background Process Killer

. 

3

 Click on the tick boxes next to the processes that you want to automatically kill. 

It is recommended that you do not allow any of these processes to run on your 

servers. 

4

 Enter the name of any trusted users in the available field, if required. Enter one 

user per line. All users with an uid of less than 99 (including root, mysql, named, 

and cpanel) are automatically trusted. 

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