{"id":5674,"date":"2017-02-25T12:53:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T12:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/?p=5674"},"modified":"2021-02-01T07:49:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T07:49:31","slug":"ignore-lfd-email-alert-certain-users-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/ignore-lfd-email-alert-certain-users-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Ignore LFD Email Alert for Certain Users in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You will get LFD alerts messages often because you have installed CSF on your server and LFD will notify to you every time when the user or process take more time or memory which is assigned in your CSF configuration.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But sometimes if you want to disable this kind of alert for specific users.Yes, it is possible!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We have already discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/lfd-excessive-resource-usage-alerts\/\">how to disable the Lfd excessive resource usage alert<\/a> on a server in one of our previous article. Please see the article for more details.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In this Post, we are going to disable alert completely for a specific user . This can be easily accomplished by adding the user name in \u201ccsf.uidignore\u201d file.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Follow the steps below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Step 1 :<\/strong> Log into server as root user.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Step 2 :<\/strong> Next, you need to findout the UID (User ID) of that user.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We can check the UID information from \/etc\/passwd file or from the CLI by using the command \u201cid.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"space1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre>grep -i username \/etc\/passwd\r\n\r\ngrep -i cppl \/etc\/passwd\r\n\r\ncppl:x:87:87:cppl:\/:\/sbin\/nologin\r\n\r\nid -u cppl\r\n87<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"space1\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Step 3 :<\/strong> Open the CSF conf file \u201c\/etc\/csf\/csf.uidignore\u201d with your favorite text editor and add the UID in that file.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"space1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre>nano \/etc\/csf\/csf.uidignore\r\n87<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"space1\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Step 4 :<\/strong> Restart CSF and LFD.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"space1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre>\/etc\/init.d\/lfd restart\r\nStopping lfd: [ OK ]\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"space1\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That\u2019s all you have to do,You also like to know about\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/basic-ssh-commands-for-csf-to-secure-your-server\/\">Basic SSH Commands For CSF To Secure Your Server<\/a>, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please check and\u00a0give your opinion below if you experience any issues or to discuss your ideas and experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You will get LFD alerts messages often because you have installed CSF on your server and LFD will notify to you every time when the user or process take more time or memory which is assigned in your CSF configuration. 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