Fastest Way To Zap Multiple Accounts [Urgent]

[bugmaster]

I recently acquired 15 servers with massive amounts of accounts
98% unused, over 4000 per server

I need to delete 3800 of these on each server but the problem is because they
were unmanaged for so long, deleting 1 account via WHM or /scripts/killacct
takes 15 minutes to remove 1 account

due to something like mkvhostspasswd or something taking forever to rehash

Is there any way I can get these accounts removed faster?

[oulzac]

Yes, with the terminate multiple accounts feature in whm, in the Multi-Account Functions section.

[bugmaster]

That does not help, it takes 15 minutes per remove (mass terminate still does one at a time, just get to select ahead of time), the web app will run for 6 hours to remove 50 accounts and takes 99.9% of the cpu PER USER once it hits that mkvhostspasswd stage

[bugmaster]

i started mass terminate since last post
at this time it has only removed 3 accounts in total

[bugmaster]

just peeking at the mkvhostspasswd code, didnt get far but

opendir(PROFTPDVHOSTS,"/etc/proftpd");
my @NAMELESS=readdir(PROFTPDVHOSTS);
@NAMELESS=grep(!/^\.+$/, @NAMELESS);
closedir(PROFTPDVHOSTS);

Could this be whats slowing it down and if i just zap all the bad accounts here prior to terminating, that will speed up the proccess?

[bugmaster]

I'm not a coder or a engineer, or whatnot, but if you ask me this procedure is useless to be run in this predicament...... sure it might be a part of some sorta test that needs to be done when managing accounts, but in certain conditions such as rmeoving 1 account, why 1000 others have to be checked for a nameless account is beyond me, seeing how
it just deleted the proftpd file that it really should be checking before even running this...
thats my 2 cents... but then again, i have worked with programmers for 10 years and i know how that scene goes,

my problem was solved with my own 10 lines of code to find and rmeove ununsed accounts... and this was indeed the bottleneck

15 minutes now down to 2 minutes per terminate
still slow but tolerable

[forlinuxsupport]

hey

How about backing up the accounts you want,
Then move the backup off the server and wipe it
then reinstall the OS and then cpanel and restore the accounts you need.


Cheers
Andy

[bugmaster]

pointless and expensive, the drives are multiple 200 gigs+ per server

a better solution would be to learn how to program, kinda sad someone who has
no programming knowledge and used cpanel for less than a month can code better than someone making 150k+ a year specifically on the project and a cpanel supposed expert

[randomuser]

just peeking at the mkvhostspasswd code, didnt get far but

opendir(PROFTPDVHOSTS,"/etc/proftpd");
my @NAMELESS=readdir(PROFTPDVHOSTS);
@NAMELESS=grep(!/^\.+$/, @NAMELESS);
closedir(PROFTPDVHOSTS);

Could this be whats slowing it down and if i just zap all the bad accounts here prior to terminating, that will speed up the proccess?

Oh how I wish one day cPanel would fix this code