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Using a Thales nShield Connect 6000 on CentOS

Here’s my play by play for installing a Thales nShield Connect network-based HSM into a CentOS linux environment: Edit your ~/.bash_profile to include the following additional directory in your path Continue Reading…

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Excluding packages from yum-cron auto update on RHEL 7 / CentOS 7

So in RHEL 6 / CentOS 6, there is of course the yum-cron package which will let your system auto update.  Generally, you don’t want to auto update kernel packages.  You’d Continue Reading…

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Kickstarting with RedHat’s (in)consistent network device naming

If you’ve installed RHEL/CentOS 7, then you’ve probably encountered the now-default ‘consistent network device naming’ feature. The goal is to eliminate what, in theory, is the unpredictable nature of network Continue Reading…

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rsyslog unresponsive and netstat Recv-Q building?

Recently had an issue where servers were randomly seeming to hang, or slow down significantly.  I isolated the problem to activities that had a mandate to log something to syslog Continue Reading…

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Building NTPD 4.2.8 on RedHat 7.3

Let me guess; you had an ancient RedHat 7.3 server sitting around that was acting as an NTP server, so you’ve of course never replaced it because why bother, it Continue Reading…

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Finding the source of website hacks

If you’re involved in web hosting, you’re probably also involved in cleaning up hacked websites; especially if you have users running WordPress, Drupal or Joomla, which are all notorious for Continue Reading…

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Cron job to dump all mysql databases daily

If you use MySQL as part of your web hosting operation, which of course everyone does, you’ve probably run into your share of requests from customers to restore data.  This Continue Reading…

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Using rsync over ssh when the remote side is a chroot shell

Just a tip; the rsync download listed later in this article works on VMware ESXi too! October 2020 Update: This process continues to work for vSphere since Vmware continues to Continue Reading…

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How to get syslog records of chrooted SSH sftp-server activity

So you are trying to wean your users off of using FTP for obvious reasons, but your FTP server was at least doing chroot’ing which was nice for keeping them Continue Reading…

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Watch out for a listening syslogd

Here’s a weird issue to be aware of.  If you are using centralized syslogging on RHEL5/Centos5 servers, you may be surprised to find this in your netstat or lsof: Well Continue Reading…

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