Monthly Archives: June 2012

CentOS – configuring nightly automatic updates

Posted on June 6, 2012 by hedscratchers

I believe that yum-cron now comes package with, but if it doesn’t this do the trick. Upgrade yum first # yum upgrade yum Reboot Check to see if you already have yum-cron – the cron job for updating # rpm … Continue reading →

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Converting Xen guest VM to ESX

Posted on June 4, 2012 by hedscratchers

Guest prep For this guide the guest Xen VM is named “foo” Check current kernel version (XEN) $uname -a  2.6.18-194.11.4.el5xen Install kernel $yum install kernel Downloading Packages: Kernel-2.6.18-308.16.1.el5.x86_64.rpm The new kernel will now show up in /boot $lst -ltr /boot … Continue reading →

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Linux – sending log files to a remote server

Posted on June 1, 2012 by hedscratchers

This worked fine on version: Sending host CentOS 6.2 final 64-bit to receiving host CentOS 5.6 final 64-bit Sending To send logs to remote server (central log server et-al) add the following to the end of the /etc/syslog.conf/rsyslog.conf, best to … Continue reading →

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Securing Samba

Posted on June 1, 2012 by hedscratchers

Changing some of the options may break compatibility with Windows XP and older versions of Samba may not support some of the above options.  Optimal settings overview a) lanman auth = No (prevents use of weak password hashes, breaks compatibility … Continue reading →

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