Tag Archives: redhat

Capturing IP tables logs

Posted on August 8, 2019 by hedscratchers

Overview CentOS7’RHEL7 – I needed to log dropped packets form IPtables to a separate file using rsyslog, I like my logs in separate files, and then rotate them. I read several online guides and most worked but ended up with … Continue reading →

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Migrate and upgrade Tenable Security Center from RHEL6/CentOS6 to RHEL7/CentOS7

Posted on January 23, 2019 by hedscratchers

Overview I had Tenable Security Center running on a RHEL6 VM which scans around 1000 hosts several times a week. REHL6 is getting a bit long-in-the-tooth and also there was a need to upgrade to the latest and greatest version of … Continue reading →

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Adding a custom unit file RHEL7, for swatch

Posted on October 11, 2017 by hedscratchers

swatch is a Linux tool for watching (it uses ”tail -f”) log files and then demonizes it. I had a need to know when a host needed rebooting after yum-cron had updated the kernel, rather than logging into each host … Continue reading →

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Creating a SELinux policy for the named daemon in a chrooted BIND9 configuration

Posted on September 5, 2013 by hedscratchers

I recently configured chrooted BIND9 slave on RHEL6.4 64-bit, with SELinux enabled, with this enabled the named daemon failed to start, easily tested by disabling SELinux, and then starting it, which would then be successful.  So, I needed to create … Continue reading →

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