Monthly Archives: July 2010

System Prep | SecureCentos.com

Posted by on July 25, 2010 Comments Off

Good place to start securing your Centos Build

nano -w /etc/sysconfig/network

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Install OSSEC | SecureCentos.com

Posted by on July 24, 2010 Comments Off

Please note a new version of ossec is available, 2.4.1 The link below describes installation of 2.3 which has some issues when rebooting etc etc

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Spawn Rsync Expect Timeout!

Posted by on July 24, 2010 Comments Off

So you’ve written a bash script to do a rsync backup, but the script times out?

Scratching your heading trying to figure out what the issue is?  
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Lighttpd Centos

Posted by on July 22, 2010 Comments Off

Lighttpd is the web server of choice for low memory VPS applications.

Lighttpd is not included in the base CENTOS Repo, so you will need to install the RPMFORGE repo. then  
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PHP 5.3.2 APC Centos Conundrum

Posted by on July 21, 2010 Comments Off

So the PHP 5.3.2 is not in the default repository for Centos.

So we need to use the webtatic repository to install php 5.3.2 using the guide from here ->  
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Setup VSFTPD

Posted by on July 21, 2010 Comments Off

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=662784

CHROOT local users to their own directory

Posted by on July 21, 2010 Comments Off

Once VSFTPD is installed, edit the

/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf file and add the following line if it does not exist

chroot_local_user=YES  
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Users, Files and permissions

Posted by on July 21, 2010 Comments Off

http://www.debianadmin.com/users-and-groups-administration-in-linux.html

Need to free up some memory? Disable INNODB

Posted by on July 20, 2010 Comments Off

Pop this into your my.cnf file

skip-innodb

This will disable this database engine, hence saving you a LOT of memory resources.  
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Install ntop on Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS Linux

Posted by on July 20, 2010 Comments Off

Install ntop on Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS Linux.