This article would tell you how to manage your Drupal-based site on Unix-server through terminal (SSH).

Solution

Connection

Connection command to local SSH-server contains GNU/Linux command line or Free BSD for pacify user (server listens unstandard port 30000):

$ ssh -p30000 pacify@127.0.0.1

Drush module will help you manage Drupal site through Unix command line (Windows maintaining is experimental).

Here are some tips for managing your site:

• Use this command for memory check: free
  
• Use this to work with file system: mc
  
  Setting CDPATH variable, you will save your efforts to enter cd command.
• 95% of setting files are located in /etc folder.
• \server logs are located in /var/log folder.
• For processes viewing: ps -ef (to use filter, add " | grep <sifting value> ")
  
• Deleting of processes: kill -9 <Process №>
• Changing rights for folder-file: chmod
• There is a command which allows you to get know about terminals and how much server works: w
  
• Infro about File System: df
  
• Statistics gathering: sar -<options> [interval] [number of statistics requests]
  • If there are no parameters for sar -<options> then statistics is gathered for the last day
  • If there is no [number of statistics requests] then number is set to 1
  • General loading: sar -u
  • Memory analysis: sar -r
  • Network loading: sar -n FULL
  • Processors loading: sar -P ALL

  If sar isn’t set you should install sysstat packet. It is a set of Linus programs:

  • sar (gathering information about system activity),
  • iostat (processor activity statistics, statistics I/O for tty-devices and discs) and
  • mpstat.

  It is possible to save gathered info to file for the further analysis.

• netstat -t 1 – gives current information
  
• And do not forget about help information : man <any command>