{"id":536,"date":"2016-12-12T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/?p=536"},"modified":"2017-09-01T12:09:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T12:09:24","slug":"how-to-install-uninstall-kernelcare-and-important-kernel-commands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/how-to-install-uninstall-kernelcare-and-important-kernel-commands\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install\/Uninstall KernelCare and Important Kernel commands"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is KernelCare<\/h2>\n
KernelCare is a service that provides important updates for your running kernel, removing the need to reboot your server. KernelCare is compatible with 64bit versions of RHEL\/CentOS 5.x, 6.x , 7.x, CloudLinux 5.x, 6.x, Virtuozzo\/PCS\/OpenVZ 2.6.32, Debian 6.x, 7.x and Ubuntu 14.04 kernels .<\/div>\n

KernelCare Installation<\/h2>\n

To install KernelCare on RPM based system, run:<\/p>\n

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rpm -i https:\/\/downloads.kernelcare.com\/kernelcare-latest.x86_64.rpm<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

To install KernelCare on Debian system, run the following command:<\/p>\n

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wget https:\/\/downloads.kernelcare.com\/kernelcare-latest.deb<\/span><\/div>\n
dpkg -i kernelcare-latest.deb <\/span><\/div>\n
To check if the new patches applied<\/div>\n
\/usr\/bin\/kcarectl –info <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

KernelCare will automatically check for new patches every 4 hours. If you would like to run update manually:<\/p>\n

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\/usr\/bin\/kcarectl –update <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Uninstall KernelCare<\/h2>\n

To Uninstall KernelCare run the following command as root privileges:<\/p>\n

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yum remove kernelcare <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

To disable KernelCare automatic updates<\/h2>\n
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Edit file \/etc\/sysconfig\/kcare\/kcare.conf<\/p>\n

Set AUTO_UPDATE=False<\/p><\/div>\n

View current version of KernelCare<\/h2>\n

View current version of KernelCare run the command as root:<\/p>\n

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\/usr\/bin\/kcarectl –uname <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is KernelCare KernelCare is a service that provides important updates for your running kernel, removing the need to reboot your server. KernelCare is compatible with 64bit versions of RHEL\/CentOS 5.x, 6.x , 7.x, CloudLinux 5.x, 6.x, Virtuozzo\/PCS\/OpenVZ 2.6.32, Debian 6.x, 7.x and Ubuntu 14.04 kernels . KernelCare Installation To install KernelCare on RPM based […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[178,104,50,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}