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Failed to create temporary file: /var/lib/mod_security/20xx

27 October 2023·1 min read

Today, the developer reported that the he is not able to upload some files. As we checked, we were getting the following error on mod_security log. It looks like apache is getting denied while...

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CentOS 6 – YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file.

8 August 2021·1 min read

Hello folks… Today I was trying to install a package on an old CentOS 6 server and got the below error. Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, security Setting up Install Process Determining fastest...

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phpmyadmin gives Function get_magic_quotes_gpc() is deprecated

29 March 2021·1 min read

Hello Folks, Today I was installing PHPMyAdmin and I was getting the below error while accessing http://IP/phpmyadmin page. The error was repeating even after logging in. I have gone through the...

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How to exclude virtfs or any Mount Point from Zabbix Filesystem Discovery

23 April 2018·1 min readArchive

I was configuring Zabbix for our cPanel servers. A few years back I had configured Zabbix with Manual mount points. But this time, I want to use the File System Discovery to make the setup easier for...

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How to Install RedMine on CentOS 7

29 January 2018·3 min readArchive

Install Software Collections yum -y install yum-plugin-priorities Add [priority=1] to official repository sed -i -e “s/\]$/\]\npriority=1/g” /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo yum -y install...

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CentOS RHEL – reboot after kernel update or if reboot needed

5 December 2017·1 min readArchive

Yum-Cron Yum-cron is used to update the server automatically. This service will update the server with all the packages or only the security patches as configured on /etc/yum/yum-cron.conf But, the...

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IPA wait_for_open_ports: localhost [8080, 8443] timeout 300

13 September 2017·1 min readArchive

Issue: IPA wait_for_open_ports: localhost [8080, 8443] timeout 300 Today we were updating the server with yum update on our IPA server. The yum update finished successfully, but the IPA was not...

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SSH or git-clone via Proxy

28 June 2017·1 min readArchive

Today we were setting up few Web servers on a private network which will be serving the traffic through the Load Balancer. The setup was simple until we came to know that the Webservers needs to...

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Jenkins not starting on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

24 March 2017·1 min readArchive

Today i was installing Jenkins on a CentOS7 systems. After installing it via Jenkins yum repository, the service was not stating. The java was already installed on the server. Issue You have...

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OpenVPN with CSF firewall rules

2 February 2017·1 min readArchive

We are a big fan of OpenVPN when it comes to security. Many organizations have already switched to OpenVPN from PPTP etc. NixVPN is my favorite VPN software to host it on a standalone instance. But...

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VSFTP chroot jail users – Limit FTP users access to home directory

1 February 2017·1 min readArchive

Lets see how we can configure a secure FTP server on CentOS RHEL 6 / 7 First, you need to install the vsftp package on your server yum install -y vsftpd Once installed, lets start editing the...

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Disable SU access for sudo users

11 January 2017·1 min readArchive

Some times you need to disable sudo su – access on your environment so that the users will use sudo command always and they will not switch to any other users account unnecessarily Lets see how to do...

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