One of the features of rkhunter in CentOS that I miss is the ability to update rkhunter‘s property database automatically after yum is run (just like in Debian). This post explains how to implement this feature.
How to Integrate rkhunter with yum
How to Integrate monit with yum
Monit is an utility for managing and monitoring processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems on a Unix system. It is often used to restart daemons on failures and abnormal situation, and sometimes to detect changes into critical files and / or daemon binaries. This article explains how to make `yum` package manager play nice with `monit`.
Bootstrap Alpine Linux LXD Container with Ansible
A recipe to bootstrap an Alpine Linux based LXD container with Ansible.
How to Log Successful SSH Login Attempts
Sometimes it can be useful to get notified when someone logs into the system via SSH. This article shows several possible solutions how to configure those notifications.
CentOS, wp-cli, and rkhunter
This story was told by my colleague. She had a CentOS 7 server with a bunch of WordPress installations, and she needed to update them all. She obviously did not want to do that manually and preferred to use wp-cli.