Linux

Debian daemon control

In RedHat distributions like RHEL, Fedora and also CentOS you have a tool called ntsysv to manage daemons and their runlevels. In Debian there is an alternative tool that lets you determine what daemon you want to run using a text GUI sysv-rc-conf It makes it easy to manage which daemons you would like to […]

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Using TCP Wrappers to deny daemon access in specified hours

By doing the following you can deny certain daemons to be available in specified hours by using hosts.allow and hosts.deny. In my example I will be using the vsftpd daemon by adding tcp_wrapper=YES in /etc/vsftpd.conf. Make sure that your private network has access all the time by adding this in /etc/hosts.allow vsftpd: 192.168.0. Enables access […]

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Shell script to monitor running services such as web/http, ssh, mail

Shell script to monitor running services such as web/http, ssh, mail etc. If service fails script will send an Email to ADMIN user monitor-linux-service.bash #!/bin/bash # Shell script to monitor running services such as web/http, ssh, mail etc. # If service fails it will send an Email to ADMIN user # ————————————————————————- # Copyright (c) […]

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