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NagiosQL does not restart Nagios version 4.0.8

Posted on September 23, 2016 by SEEISeptember 23, 2016

edit the file /var/www/nagiosql32/admin/verify.php and change the line: $strCommandString = “[“.mktime().”] RESTART_PROGRAM;”.mktime(); to be $strCommandString = “[“.mktime().”] RESTART_PROGRAM;”.mktime().”\n”; also edit the file /var/www/nagiosql32/scripts/do_config.php and change the line: $strCommandString = “[“.mktime().”] RESTART_PROGRAM;”.mktime(); to be $strCommandString = “[“.mktime().”] RESTART_PROGRAM;”.mktime().”\n”; H/T https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=24161

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You do not have sufficient permissions to manage plugins on this blog

Posted on August 29, 2016 by SEEIAugust 29, 2016

If you have the WP Security plugin installed and you get the message “You do not have sufficient permissions to manage plugins on this blog”, you need to Find “WP Security” in the wordpress dashboard Select: Filesystem Security – PHP … Continue reading →

Using UUID to Mount Disk

Posted on July 5, 2016 by SEEIJuly 5, 2016

In linux, hard drive dev assignments can get changed between reboots – especially with external/removable drives. This means using /dev/sdX or /dev/hdX is not the best way to mount a drive that needs to be mounted every time at boot. … Continue reading →

Web Site Certificate/SSL Tests

Posted on May 13, 2016 by SEEINovember 21, 2025

I have found the following two sites helpful in finding issues with the configuration of SSL secured web sites https://ssltools.digicert.com/checker/ https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html Test which ciphers (TLS, SSL, etc) are enabled nmap -sV –script ssl-enum-ciphers -p 443 www.yourdomain.com Ref: https://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/ssl-enum-ciphers.html

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“Created slice user-0.slice.” and “Starting Session 6642 of user root.” in /var/log/messages

Posted on February 25, 2016 by SEEIFebruary 25, 2016

I found the following entries in my /var/log/messages file Feb 21 03:50:01 vm1 systemd: Created slice user-0.slice. Feb 21 03:50:01 vm1 systemd: Starting Session 6642 of user root. Feb 21 03:50:01 vm1 systemd: Started Session 6642 of user root. These … Continue reading →

View current VPN sessions on an ASA via CLI

Posted on February 2, 2016 by SEEIFebruary 2, 2016

To view current sessions sh vpn-sessiondb remote (IPSec Remote VPN Clients) sh vpn-sessiondb l2l (L2L Tunnels) sh vpn-sessiondb svc (SSL VPN / Anyconnect Clients) sh vpn-sessiondb webvpn (Clientless sessions) sh ssh sessions (show users connected to ASA via SSH) To … Continue reading →

Replace firewalld with iptables in CentOS 7

Posted on February 1, 2016 by SEEIMay 10, 2017

Firewalld is a pain to set up. To switch to iptables: yum -y install iptables-services If you would like to save the firewall rules you need to run the following command iptables-save > /root/iptables-rules.txt These rules can be added to … Continue reading →

Cisco AnyConnect Client Wont Run On Centos 7

Posted on December 17, 2015 by SEEIDecember 17, 2015

You start AnyConnect on Centos 7 using the shortcut and the application flashes on the screen and disappears. So you try running it from the bash prompt and you get: [user@mymachine ~]$ /opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/vpnui /opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/vpnui: error while loading shared libraries: libpangox-1.0.so.0: … Continue reading →

Securing VSFTPD

Posted on December 17, 2015 by SEEIFebruary 4, 2018

To make sure VSFTPD plays nicely with IPTABLES Make sure the following is set in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf # Turn on SSL ssl_enable=no # Allow anonymous users to use secured SSL connections allow_anon_ssl=NO # All non-anonymous logins are forced to use a … Continue reading →

Security Wipe Of Hard Drive Using Linux

Posted on December 4, 2015 by SEEIDecember 4, 2015

first – determine the dev of the hard drive – as in /dev/sda /dev/sdb etc Then excute shred -vz -n 3 /dev/XXX where XXX is the identifier of the hard drive Increase 3 to a larger value for higher security … Continue reading →