How to disable & remove URCHIN from your server
Dedicated servers usually comes with different software packages and control panels pre-installed. More and more dedicated servers are running an optional web statistics program - “URCHIN” which allows sophisticated analysis of your web server’s log files. URCHIN is well known as a very resource intensive softwar package. It will generate log files up to 10GB or even larger. It can be consuming lots of disk space and eating up your memory. If you already use AWStats or Webalizer, I think it’s a good idea to disable & remove URCHIN from your server.
How do you get rid of Urchin on your server? There is no shortcuts in WHM/cPanel control panel. Here are my experience.
1) Login to my server via SSH; (SecureCRT is a great SSH software )
2) Go to the folder where URCHIN is installed.Â
 cd /usr/local/
3) Stop URCHIN service & scheduler
 ./urchin/bin/urchinctl stop
4) Remove URCHIN folder
 rm -rf urchin/
5) Remove URCHIN log datas from all accounts
 rm -rf /home/*/tmp/urchin
Now you can enjoy 10GB+ disk space and more free memory.
Note: I do NOT guarantee it is safe to execute the above commands on your server. Do it at your own risk.
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September 28th, 2006 at 9:06 am
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