Older Entries »

How to install and setup tripwire in CentOS 6

By Nabin Limbu, on January 26th, 2012

1) Install epel (Extra Package for Enterprise Linux) repo # rpm -ivh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm

2) Install tripwire package # sudo yum -y install tripwire

3) Run “tripwire-setup-keyfiles”. It will generate site-key-phassphrase and local-key-passphrase and also create below files inside /etc/tripwire folder: site.key ==> site key to encrypt tripwire cfg file and policy file hostname-local.key ==> local . . . → Read More: How to install and setup tripwire in CentOS 6

Leave a comment   How To, Monitoring, Security, System Administration, Tip & Tricks

How to setup pptpd VPN server in CentOS 6 ?

By Nabin Limbu, on December 30th, 2011

1) Install poptop repository. Note the directory contains “rhel6″ for “centos 6″.

# rpm -ivh http://poptop.sourceforge.net/yum/stable/rhel6/pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm

2) Install pptpd and ppp package

# yum –enablerepo=poptop-stable install pptpd ppp

. . . → Read More: How to setup pptpd VPN server in CentOS 6 ?

Leave a comment   Firewall, How To, Iptables, Security, System Administration, Tip & Tricks

Permissions in cron

By Nabin Limbu, on December 15th, 2011

cron permission with cron.allow and cron.deny . . . → Read More: Permissions in cron

Leave a comment   Security, System Administration, Tip & Tricks

mount.nfs operation not permitted after upgrading to centos 6.0

By Nabin Limbu, on September 26th, 2011

I had a backup script which would mount backup disk from centralised backup server via nfs and then copy the mentioned files with rsync tool. After upgrading one server to centos 6.0, then the script stopped working and started to generate error like this : rsync: chown “” failed: Invalid argument (22)

After querying, I . . . → Read More: mount.nfs operation not permitted after upgrading to centos 6.0

Leave a comment   Shell Scripting, System Administration, Tip & Tricks

How to find files within time interval

By Nabin Limbu, on July 17th, 2011

# Find file files modified between now and 1 day ago (i.e., within the past 24 hours) find . -mtime 0

# find files modified less than 1 day ago (i.e., within the past 24 hours, as before) find . -mtime -1

# find files modified between 24 and 48 hours ago . . . → Read More: How to find files within time interval

Leave a comment   Desktop, How To, Tip & Tricks
 
  Older Entries »

Categories

Archives

A sample text widget

Etiam pulvinar consectetur dolor sed malesuada. Ut convallis euismod dolor nec pretium. Nunc ut tristique massa.

Nam sodales mi vitae dolor ullamcorper et vulputate enim accumsan. Morbi orci magna, tincidunt vitae molestie nec, molestie at mi. Nulla nulla lorem, suscipit in posuere in, interdum non magna.