Tag: centos

Diplaying Logs with journalctl [CentOS7]

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To simply view the logs on your system, you can execute the following command:
journalctl
This will display the logs with the oldest entries first. Although this is simple, it is not very useful since we do not tend to read logs like a book.
By default journalctl displays the logs in a pager. It shows you one page of logs requiring you to hit the space bar to proceed.
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If you nead, automated certificate expiration checks on CentOS Linux

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One important part of using SSL is to keep track of expiration dates on certificates. Most client software will rightfully refuse to connect to a server that presents an expired certificate, resulting in interrupted services. For CentOS and other RHEL based distributions, the crypto-utils package contains a very useful utility called certwatch, which can be used to detect whether a certificate will expire in the near future. Read More

Postfix dkim and spf filtering

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Installing OpenDKIM:
yum install opendkim
Create private and public key:

mkdir /etc/opendkim/keys/myhostname.lt
/usr/sbin/opendkim-genkey -D /etc/opendkim/keys/myhostname.lt/ -d myhostname.lt -s default
chown -R root:opendkim /etc/opendkim/keys/myhostname.lt
chmod 640 /etc/opendkim/keys/myhostname.lt/default.private
chmod 644 /etc/opendkim/keys/myhostname.lt/default.txt

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Setting static IP in CentOS 7 Minimal Installation

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In order to set the network adapter and get get CentOS to communicate on the network the Ethernet adapter will need to be configured. In this lesson I will set a static IP address for the network adapter. To view a list of your network adapters use the command ip addr.
The configuration file for the network adapter should be located at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s3. With the minimal installation of CentOS there are not many options available to configure the network adapter. One option is to use the vi editor or nano to configure ifcfg-enp0s3. Another option is to use the nmtui utility to edit the network adapter. Read More

CentOS timezone config

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CentOS timezone config files and directories

  • /usr/share/zoneinfo/ – The system timezone directory contains the files as per timezone name. For example, the file /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York represents time zone for New York.
  • /etc/localtime – It is a symlink to the file localtime or to the correct timezone file in the system located in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ directory.

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