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How to install Nagios 4.1.1 On RHEL/CentOS 6.x/5.x and Fedora 19/18/17

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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Installing Nagios 4.1.1 and Nagios Plugin 1.5</u></b></span><div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Nagios a free and open computer-software application, monitors systems, networks and infrastructure. Nagios offers monitoring and alerting services for servers, switches, applications and services. It alerts users when things go wrong and alerts them a second time when the problem has been resolved.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Nagios was originally designed to run under Linux, but it also runs well on other Unix variants. It is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><u>With Nagios you can:</u></span></b></div>
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<li>Monitor your entire IT infrastructure</li>
<li>Spot problems before they occur</li>
<li>Know immediately when problems arise</li>
<li>Share availability data with stakeholders</li>
<li>Detect security breaches</li>
<li>Plan and budget for IT upgrades</li>
<li>Reduce downtime and business losses</li>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Step 1: Install Required Dependencies</u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Install Apache, PHP and some libraries like gcc, glibc, glibc-common and GD libraries and its development libraries before installing Nagios 4.1.1 with source. From Yum Library.</span></span></div>
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<pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15.6px;">yum install -y httpd php gcc glibc glibc-common gd gd-devel make net-snmp</span></span></pre>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><u style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-weight: bold;">Step 2: Create Nagios User and Group</u></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Create a new nagios user and nagcmd group account and set a password.</span></div>
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</span><span style="color: white;">[root@hackthesec ]# groupadd nagcmd</span></span></span></pre>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Next, add both the nagios user and the apache user to the nagcmd group.</span></span><br />
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<pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: white;">[root@hackthesec ]# usermod -G nagcmd nagios
</span><span style="color: orange;">[root@hackthesec ]# usermod -G nagcmd apache</span></span></span></pre>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Step 3: Download Nagios Core 4.1.1 and Nagios Plugin 1.5</u></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Create a directory for your Nagios installation and all its future downloads.</span></span><br />
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[root@hackthesec ]# cd /root/nagios</span></span></pre>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Now download latest Nagios Core 4.1.1 and Nagios plugins 1.5 packages with wget command.</span></span><br />
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<pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: lime;">[root@hackthesec nagios~]# wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/nagios/nagios-4.x/nagios-4.1.1/nagios-4.1.1.tar.gz
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[root@hackthesec nagios~]# wget https://www.nagios-plugins.org/download/nagios-plugins-1.5.tar.gz</span></span></span></pre>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Step 4: Extract Nagios Core and its Plugins</u></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">We need to extract downloaded package with <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/02/unpacking-or-uncompressing-gz-files.html">tar command</a> as follows.</span></span><br />
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<pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 15.6px;">[root@hackthesec nagios~]# tar –xvf nagios-4.1.1.tar.gz
[root@hackthesec nagios~]# tar –xvf nagios-plugins-1.5.tar.gz </span></span></pre>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">When you extract these tarballs with tar command, two new folders will appear in that directory.</span></span></div>
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total 3712
drwxrwxr-x 18 root root    4099 Feb 24 03:28 nagios-4.1.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1695390 Feb 24 03:32 nagios-4.1.1.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x 15  200  300    4099 Feb 24 03:40 nagios-plugins-1.5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2428259 Feb 24 03:42 nagios-plugins-1.5.tar.gz </span></span></pre>
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<b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Configure Nagios Core</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> </span></span></u></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">We will configure Nagios Core and to do so we need to go to Nagios directory and run configure file and sample output. Please see below.</span></span><br />
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<pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: white;">[root@hackthesec nagios~]# cd nagios-4.1.1
</span><span style="color: lime;">[root@hackthesec nagios-4.1.1]# ./configure --with-command-group=nagcmd</span></span></span></pre>
<pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="line-height: 15.6px;">Nagios executable:  nagios
        Nagios user/group:  nagios,nagios
       Command user/group:  nagios,nagcmd
             Event Broker:  yes
        Install ${prefix}:  /usr/local/nagios
    Install ${includedir}:  /usr/local/nagios/include/nagios
                Lock file:  ${prefix}/var/nagios.lock
   Check result directory:  ${prefix}/var/spool/checkresults
           Init directory:  /etc/rc.d/init.d
  Apache conf.d directory:  /etc/httpd/conf.d
             Mail program:  /bin/mail
                  Host OS:  linux-gnu

Web Interface Options:
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                 HTML URL:  http://localhost/nagios/
                  CGI URL:  http://localhost/nagios/cgi-bin/
 Traceroute (used by WAP):  /bin/traceroute

Review the options above for accuracy.  If they look okay,
type 'make all' to compile the main program and CGIs.</span></span></pre>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">We need to Compile and install all the binaries with make command and make install command will install all the needed libraries in your machine and sample output bellow</span></span><br />
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<pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">[root@hackthesec nagios-4.1.1 ]# make all
</span><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: large;">[root@hackthesec nagios-4.1.1 ]# make install</span>
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<pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="line-height: 15.6px;">*** Main program, CGIs and HTML files installed ***

You can continue with installing Nagios as follows (type 'make'
without any arguments for a list of all possible options):

make install-init
     - This installs the init script in /etc/rc.d/init.d

make install-commandmode
     - This installs and configures permissions on the
       directory for holding the external command file

make install-config
     - This installs sample config files in /usr/local/nagios/etc</span></span></pre>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Following command will install the init scripts for Nagios.</span></span></div>
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<pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 15.6px;">[root@hackthesec nagios-4.1.1 ]# make install-init</span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 26px; white-space: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">To make nagios work from command line we need to install command-mode.</span></span></div>
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<pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="line-height: 15.6px;">[root@hackthesec nagios-4.1.1 ]# make install-commandmode</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 26px; white-space: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Next, install sample nagios files, please run following command. and sample output bellow..</span></span></div>
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<pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 15.6px;">[root@hackthesec nagios-4.1.1 ]# make install-config</span></span></pre>
<pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="line-height: 15.6px;">/usr/bin/install -c -m 775 -o nagios -g nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc
/usr/bin/install -c -m 775 -o nagios -g nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 664 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/nagios.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 664 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/cgi.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/cgi.cfg
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 660 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/resource.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 664 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/template-object/templates.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/templates.cfg
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 664 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/template-object/commands.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/commands.cfg
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 664 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/template-object/contacts.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 664 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/template-object/timeperiods.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/timeperiods.cfg
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 664 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/template-object/localhost.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/localhost.cfg
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 664 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/template-object/windows.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/windows.cfg
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 664 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/template-object/printer.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/printer.cfg
/usr/bin/install -c -b -m 664 -o nagios -g nagios sample-config/template-object/switch.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/switch.cfg

*** Config files installed ***

Remember, these are *SAMPLE* config files.  You'll need to read
the documentation for more information on how to actually define
services, hosts, etc. to fit your particular needs.</span></span></pre>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Step 5: Customizing Nagios Configuration</u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Open the "</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b>contacts.cfg</b>" file with your editor and set the email addressassociated with the nagiosadmin contact definition to receiving email alerts.Sample Output Bellow...</span><br />
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<pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: white;"># vi /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/</span><span style="color: lime;">contacts.cfg</span></span></span></pre>
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# Just one contact defined by default - the Nagios admin (that's you)
# This contact definition inherits a lot of default values from the 'generic-contact'
# template which is defined elsewhere.

define contact{
       contact_name                    nagiosadmin             ; Short name of user
       use                             generic-contact         ; Inherit default values from generic-contact template (defined above)
       alias                           Nagios Admin            ; Full name of user

email                           hackthesec@hackthesec.co.in     ; *** CHANGE THIS TO YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS ****       }</span></span></pre>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">We will configure Web Interface For Nagios with following command. The below command will Configure Web interface for Nagios and a web admin user will be created “nagiosadmin”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">We will be creating a password for “nagiosadmin”. After executing this command, please provide a password twice and keep it remember because this password will be used when you login in the Nagios Web interface.</span></span><br />
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New password:
Re-type new password:
Adding password for user nagiosadmin</span></span></span></pre>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Restart Apache to make the new settings take effect.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="color: lime;">[root@hackthesec ]# systemctl start httpd.service (On Fedora)</span></span></span></pre>
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Step 7: Compile and Install Nagios Plugin</u></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">We have downloaded nagios plugins in /root/nagios, Go there and configure and install it.</span><br />
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[root@hackthesec nagios]# cd nagios-plugins-1.5
</span><span style="color: lime;">[root@hackthesec nagios]# ./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios
</span><span style="color: white;">[root@hackthesec nagios]# make
</span><span style="color: cyan;">[root@hackthesec nagios]# make install</span></span></span></pre>
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Step 8: Verify Nagios Configuration Files</u></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Now we are all done with Nagios configuration and its time to verify it and to do so please insert following command. </span><br />
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*** Nagios/Apache conf file installed ***

/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
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Total Warnings: 0
Total Errors:   0</span></span></pre>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">We need to add nagios and httpd with chkconfig command.</span><br />
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</span><span style="color: white;">[root@hackthesec ]# chkconfig --level 35 nagios on
</span><span style="color: orange;">[root@hackthesec ]# chkconfig --add httpd
</span><span style="color: cyan;">[root@hackthesec ]# chkconfig --level 35 httpd on</span></span></span></pre>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Restart Nagios to make the new settings take effect.</span></span><br />
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[root@hackthesec ]# systemctl start nagios.service (On Fedora)</span></span></pre>
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Step 10: Login to the Nagios Web Interface</u></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Your nagios is ready to work, please open it in your browser with “http://Your-server-IP-address/nagios” or “http://FQDN/nagios” and Provide the username “nagiosadmin” and password.</span><br />
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<u><span style="color: red;"><i>Install and Setup LXC Linux Containers on <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Centos" target="_blank">CentOS </a>/ <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/RHEL" target="_blank">RHEL</a> / <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Ubuntu" target="_blank">Ubuntu</a></i></span></u></h1>
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LXC stands for Linux Containers.</div>
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Linux containers are light-weight “<b><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/virtualization" target="_blank">virtualization</a></b>” methods that runs multiple virtual units simultaneously on a single control host on a single Linux kernel.</div>
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The Linux kernel contains cgroups for resource isolation (CPU, memory, block I/O, network, etc, ), which does not require starting any virtual machines.<br />
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Cgroups also provides namespace isolation to completely isolate application view of the operating environment, including process trees, networks, userids and mounted filesystems.</div>
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LXC is open source software and licensed under GNU LGPLv2.1+ license.</div>
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Containers actually make use of kernel features called namespaces, cgroups, and chroots, to carve off a contained area.</div>
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So, the end result of LXC looks much like a virtual machine, but without any hypervisor.</div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><u>1. Pre-req for LXC Install</u></span></h3>
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Before you install LXC, make sure your system is up-to-date using yum update as shown below.</div>
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LXC is dependent on two libraries; libpcap and libcgroup. This also requires busybox and bridge utilities.</div>
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Install the following required packages for our LXC install.</div>
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Let us make sure we got all the compilers and related development tools that are required to compile and install any software from source code.</div>
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Download the latest version of the LXC from <a href="https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/downloads/" style="color: #dd0000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Linux Containers Project</a>.</div>
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Use wget to download the tar ball of the latest stable version of LXC to your machine as shown below.</div>
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If you get a certificate related error message while using the above wget, then use the no-check-certificate option as shown below.</div>
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Alternatively, if you prefer, you can also use git clone to download the latest development version or stable version as shown below.</div>
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In the above command, the {branch} can either be “master” for the current development branch, or “stable-1.0″ for the stable update branch of the 1.0 version.</div>
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<u><span style="color: #0b5394;">3. Configure Bridged Adapter</span></u></h3>
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Next, create a bridged adapter and configure the static IP on the bridged adapter as shown in the following ifcfg-eth0 example. Ensure your physical adapter points to this bridged adapter in ifcfg-eth0.</div>
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</span></span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.3em;">root@hackthesec:~$</span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;"> vi </span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">ifcfg-br0</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">

DEVICE="br0"
BOOTPROTO="static"
IPADDR="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
NETMASK="255.255.255.xxx"
ONBOOT="yes"
TYPE="Bridge"
NM_CONTROLLED="no"</span></span></pre>
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Replace all the “xxx” in the above file with the values that matches your ip-address and networkmask. For example, change the IPADDR value in the above file to the ip-address of your machine.</div>
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<u><span style="color: #0b5394;">4. Install LXC Linux Container</span></u></h3>
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Next, untar the LXC tar ball, that we downloaded earlier, execute the ./configure, and do make and make install, to install the LXC on your system as shown below.</div>
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By default, this will install all the lxc binaries under /usr/local/bin directory.</div>
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</span></span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.3em;">root@hackthesec:~$ </span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">make && make install</span></span></pre>
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The following are few of the last few lines from the output for the above ./configure command.</div>
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config.status: creating src/python-lxc/setup.py
config.status: creating src/lua-lxc/Makefile
config.status: executing depfiles commands
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">config.status: executing default commands
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">----------------------------
Environment:
 - compiler: gcc
 - distribution: <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Centos" target="_blank">centos</a>
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;"> - init script type(s): sysvinit
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;"> - rpath: no
 - GnuTLS: no
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;"> - Bash integration: yes
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">Security features:
 - Apparmor: no
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;"> - Linux capabilities: yes
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;"> - seccomp: no
 - SELinux: no
 - cgmanager: no
Bindings:
 - lua: no
 - python3: no
Documentation:
 - examples: yes
 - API documentation: yes
 - user documentation: no
Debugging:
 - tests: no
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;"> - mutex debugging: no
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">Paths:
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;"> - Logs in configpath: no</span></span></pre>
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The following are the last few lines from the output for the above make command.</div>
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...
Building full member lists recursively...
Adding members to member groups.
...
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">Generating style sheet...
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">Generating index page...
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">Generating page index...
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">Generating example documentation...
Generating file sources...
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">Generating code for file /usr/save/lxc-1.1.5/src/lxc/attach_options.h...
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">Generating code for file /usr/save/lxc-1.1.5/src/lxc/lxccontainer.h...
Generating code for file /usr/save/lxc-1.1.5/src/lxc/lxclock.h...
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">Generating file documentation...
Generating docs for file /usr/save/lxc-1.1.5/src/lxc/attach_options.h...</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">
...
Generating file member index...
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/save/lxc-1.1.5/doc/api'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/save/lxc-1.1.5/doc'
...
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">Making all in hooks
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/save/lxc-1.1.5/hooks'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">.
...</span></span></pre>
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The following are the last few lines from the output for the above make install command.</div>
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...
Making install in hooks
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/save/lxc-1.1.5/hooks'
 /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/share/lxc/hooks'
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;"> /usr/bin/install -c clonehostname mountecryptfsroot ubuntu-cloud-prep squid-deb-proxy-client '/usr/local/share/lxc/hooks'
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">...
/bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/var/lib/lxc
/bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/var/cache/lxc
 /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig'
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;"> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 lxc.pc '/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig'
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">...</span></span></pre>
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<u><span style="color: #0b5394;">5. Create Soft Link for LXC Shared Libraries</span></u></h3>
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Execute lxc-info to verify that the LXC is installed successfully. If everything is installed properly, we’ll see a message saying that the give container name (for example, test) doesn’t exist. We have not created any container at this stage. We just want to make sure this command is not throwing any shared library related errors.</div>
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test doesn't exist</span></span></pre>
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Depending on how things on configured on your system, you might also get the following liblxc.so.1 library related error message.</div>
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</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">lxc-info: error while loading shared libraries: liblxc.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory</span></span></pre>
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In this case, to fix it, create a link called libxc.so.1 as shown below, which will point to the correct version of the liblxc.so.x.x.x file.</div>
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</span></span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.3em;">root@hackthesec:~$ </span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">ls -l /lib64/liblxc.so.1
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 30 Jan 20 09:17 /lib64/liblxc.so.1 -> /usr/local/lib/liblxc.so.1.1.5</span></span></pre>
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<u><span style="color: #0b5394;">6. Verify LXC Setup and Configuration</span></u></h3>
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Next, you can also execute the lxc-checkconfig to verify that your lxc environment is setup correctly.</div>
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The following will have output in four different sections: 1) Namespaces, 2) Control Groups 3) Misc and 4) Checkpoint/Restore. Partial output is shown below.</div>
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Kernel configuration not found at /proc/config.gz; searching...
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">Kernel configuration found at /boot/config-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">--- Namespaces ---
Namespaces: enabled
Utsname namespace: enabled
Ipc namespace: enabled
Pid namespace: enabled
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">User namespace: enabled
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">Network namespace: enabled
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">Multiple /dev/pts instances: enabled
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">--- Control groups ---
Cgroup: enabled
Cgroup namespace: enabled
Cgroup device: enabled
Cgroup sched: enabled
Cgroup cpu account: enabled
..
--- Misc ---
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">Veth pair device: enabled
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">Macvlan: enabled
Vlan: enabled
Bridges: enabled
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">Advanced netfilter: enabled
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">..
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">--- Checkpoint/Restore ---
CONFIG_EVENTFD: enabled
CONFIG_EPOLL: enabled</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">
..
Note : Before booting a new kernel, you can check its configuration
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">usage : CONFIG=/path/to/config /usr/local/bin/lxc-checkconfig</span></span></pre>
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If everything is configured properly on your system, in the above output, all of the options in the above groups should say “enabled”.</div>
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<u><i><span style="color: red;">Move Running Command to Background in Linux</span></i></u></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For example you are taking a backup of large number of files, You have started command on terminal, But after mid of this task you think that this is taking longer time and you have some other pending tasks like below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now press <red style="color: red;"><b>CTRL + Z</b></red> to pause the current running command on terminal.</span></div>
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CTRL + Z

[1]+  Stopped          tar czf random-file.tar.gz /var/log</span><span style="font-size: 0.9em;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now type <red>bg</red> command on terminal, This will start last paused command in background by appending & in command.</span></div>
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[1]+ tar czf random-file.tar.gz /var/log &</span><span style="font-size: 0.9em;">
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">List Running Commands in Background</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To list all jobs running in background use jobs command. It will show all running commands with their job id.</span></div>
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[1]+  Running                 tar czf random-file.tar.gz /var/log &</span><span style="font-size: 0.9em;">
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The .gz file extension are created using Gzip program which reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77). gunzip / gzip is software application used for file compression. gzip is short for GNU zip; the program is a free software replacement for the compress program used in early Unix systems.</div>
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Each file is replaced by one with the extension .gz, while keeping the same ownership modes, access and modification times.</div>
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To expand i.e. to Unpacking or <b>uncompressing </b>gz files you need to use gunzip program Or gzip -d or zcat program:</div>
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Using <b>gunzip </b>command:</div>
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Using gzip -d command:</div>
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If file extension is tar.gz, type the command:</div>
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Please note that <b>gunzip </b>can currently decompress files created by <b>gzip</b>, <b>zip</b>, <b>compress</b>, compress -H or pack programs.</div>
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Files and directories or folders have permission sets for the owner of the file along with the group associated with that file and all other users of that system. But these permission sets have some limitations. For example, different permissions cannot be configured for different users. Thus, Access Control Lists (ACLs) were implemented.</div>
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ACL  provides an additional flexible permission mechanism for file system on a Linux system. It enhance the traditional <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Unix" target="_blank">UNIX </a>file permissions for files & folder. With ACL, you can give permissions for any user or any group with fine-grained access rights.</div>
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ACLs can be configured per user, per group or via the effective rights mask. These permissions then can be apply to an individual user or a group, and also you can use the same as rwx (Read, Write, Execute) found in regular file / folder permissions.</div>
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ACLs requires kernel support and your kernel musk support <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/ACL_Permission" target="_blank">ACL </a>in order to implement ACL on your Linux distribution. Along with support in the kernel, the acl package is also required to implement ACLs. Acl package contains the utilities used to add, modify, remove, and retrieve ACL information from a file / folder.</div>
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CentOS Linux is a community-supported distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by Red Hat for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (<a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/RHEL" target="_blank">RHEL</a>). As such, CentOS Linux aims to be functionally compatible with <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Rhel7" target="_blank">RHEL</a>. The <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Centos" target="_blank">CentOS </a>Project mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork. CentOS Linux is no-cost and free to redistribute. Each CentOS version is maintained for up to 10 years (by means of security updates — the duration of the support interval by Red Hat has varied over time with respect to Sources released). A new CentOS version is released approximately every 2 years and each CentOS version is periodically updated (roughly every 6 months) to support newer hardware. This results in a secure, low-maintenance, reliable, predictable and reproducible Linux environment.</div>
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You can download CentOS from <a href="https://wiki.centos.org/Download" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff5a00; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s ease-out, color 0.2s ease-out;">here</a>. You can directly download the ISO file format disk image from <a href="http://buildlogs.centos.org/rolling/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD.iso" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff5a00; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s ease-out, color 0.2s ease-out;">here</a>.</div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Oswald, Lato, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 35px;"><u>Prerequisites</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.8em;">Before beginning, you must know whether your Linux OS kernel supports ACL or not.</span></h2>
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First, switch to root user. This is not required if your current local user have sudo privileges. This is only for this tutorial. Do not practise this for regular system administration.</div>
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To know whether your kernel supports ACL or not, type the following command in a terminal.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;">After issuing the above command, you will see something like this which indicates that your kernel has the support for ACL.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;">Now, let’s check whether we have the ACL package installed on our system or not. To check such case, issue the below command in a terminal.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;">If you don’t have ACL package installed on your system, then issue the below command to install ACL package onto your system.</span></div>
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Before using any ACLs for a file or directory, the partition for the file or directory must be mounted with ACL support.</div>
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A local file system can be mounted with the following command syntax shown as below.</div>
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Here, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">/dev/sdb</span> is a disk device block and <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">acltest</span> is the folder where it will be mounted for access.</div>
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After that, you need to edit the file <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">/etc/fstab</span> for the <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">/dev/sdb</span> partition and you need to include the acl as follows. This will mount <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">/dev/sdb</span> automatically whenever you are rebooting your system.</div>
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Open the file by using the following command.</div>
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and then type the following on the /etc/fstab file.</div>
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Save & exit from the file /etc/fstab. So, whenever you will reboot, your partition will be mounted automatically with acl support.</div>
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After editing the file we need to remount the partition again. To do so,</div>
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You can issue the below command to confirm whether your previous remount command worked or not.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28.8px;"> Now Create a user . and SET password</span></div>
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</span><span style="color: white;">[root@hackthesec]#</span><span style="color: lime;"> passwd hackthesec1</span></span></span></pre>
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To test acl, we will need at least two users and I will use root and hackthesec1. However you can use different users and it’s up to you.</div>
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First we create a file <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">demoacltest.txt</span> in folder <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">/acltest </span>folder path location.</div>
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We will add acl for user hackthesec1 which will allow hackthesec 1user to write /acltest/demoacltest.txt file.</div>
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and for default permission just use this command bellow

</span><span style="font-size: large;">[root@hackthesec]# setfacl -R -m d:u:hackthesec1:rwx /acltest/demoacltest.txt</span></span></span></pre>
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Now if you want to see the file permission just run the bellow command</div>
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Result: - 
#file: acltest/demoacltest.txt
#owner: root
#group: root
#flags: -s-
user::rwx
user::hackthesec1:rwx
group::rwx
mask::rwx
other::---
default:user::rwx
default:user:hackthesec1:rwx
default:group::--x
default:mask::rwx
default:other::--x</span></span></span></pre>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><u>Removing any acls</u></span></h2>
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To remove all of the currently defined ACLs from a file or folder, issue the below command.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Default Mcelog cron file is here</span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"> /etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron</span></div>
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#!/bin/bash

# do not run if mcelogd is running

service mcelogd status >& /dev/null

[ $? -eq 0 ] && exit 0

# is mcelog supported?

/usr/sbin/mcelog --supported >& /dev/null

if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then

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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">After that paste bellow line into you
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#!/bin/bash

[ $(grep -c "error" /var/log/mcelog) -gt 0 ] && echo "Hardware Error Found $(hostname) @ $(date)" |

cat /var/log/mcelog | mail -s 'H/w Error' info@hackthesec.co.in

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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and run the script through cronjob<br /></span><span style="color: red;">Note : - If your system get any hardware issue then the script will send you a mail other wise you did </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">not get any email... *Only when your system detected any issue*</span></div>
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