06Apr 2019 by Ceyhun Kirmizitas No Comments
Install and Configure VSFTPD FTP Server – RHEL 6 – CentOS 6

Install and Configure VSFTPD FTP Server – RHEL 6 – CentOS 6

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When you think of transferring files, you probably think of the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) because it has been around for so long. While simple to use, FTP has become obsolete because it lacks the ability for secure file transfers. vsftpd (Very Secure File Transport Protocol Daemon) is a secure, fast FTP server for Unix/Linux systems. Steps: 1. Install vsftpd yum install vsftpd 2. Enable vsftpd service chkconfig vsftpd on 3. Start vsftpd service service vsftpd start 4. Check ftp port netstat -ntl | grep 21 5. Test ftp server access FTP server is running and anonymous access is enabled by default 6. Disable anonymous access Edit /etc/vsftd/vsftpd.conf anonymous_enable=NO 7. Enable dual logging dual_log_enable=YES It created /var/log/vsftpd.log file which uses vsftpd log format 8. Enable server time for display of…
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26Mar 2019 by Ceyhun Kirmizitas No Comments
Managing SWAP Partitions – RHEL 6.x – CentOS 6.x

Managing SWAP Partitions – RHEL 6.x – CentOS 6.x

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If the system needs more memory resources and the RAM is full, inactive pages in memory are moved to the swap space. Swap space is a portion of a hard disk drive (HDD) that is used for virtual memory. It can be whole disk partition or just a file inside an existing partition or a combination of swap partitions and swap files. We will see how to manage SWAP Partitions on RHEL 6.x or CentOS 6.x Steps: 1. Show current SWAP allocation free -m swapon -s 2. Create additional SWAP space from new partition Reboot is required at this step 3. Make swap mkswap /dev/sdb2 UUID=8bced662-e967-4861-9bac-6df8957b3eb5 4. Update /etc/fstab UUID=8bced662-e967-4861-9bac-6df8957b3eb5 swap swap defaults 0 0 5. Re-reads /etc/fstab for swap swapon -a 6. Show swap usage summary by device swapon -s free…
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