Many times my colleagues have asked me how to change SSH port on CentOS 7, because the way they did it themselves resulted in failures of OpenSSH to start. This happened because of SELinux, and the post explains how to overcome the issue without turning SELinux off.
How to Integrate rkhunter with yum
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 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
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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.