Immediate post install steps
sudo yum install etckeeper fail2ban
- Disable root login via ssh
- Add TCP22/0 to IPTables
- Enable sudo
- yum remove unneeded software
- yum update
- Enable SElinux
- Extend days of sysstat logging
grep -vE '^($|#)' /etc/sysconfig/sysstat
HISTORY=365
COMPRESSAFTER=10
SADC_OPTIONS=""
Install rest of software
# yum install man screen wget strace rsync mailx fdupes logwatch grep lsof screen binutils tar mcelog nfs-utils \
OpenIPMI ipmitool sysstat clamav clamav-update iscsi-initiator-utils samba openvpn lldpad ntp \
php-pecl-apc lm_sensors hddtemp smartmontools apcupsd apcupsd-cgi
Configure system, monitoring, mail, AV, and VPN
- Configure GRUB serial console redirection
- Configure kdump for system panics
- Configure lm-sensors, smartd/hddtemp+thermal alerts, lldpad, mcelog, and SMARTmon for temperature alerts.
DEVICESCAN -H -m root -M exec /usr/libexec/smartmontools/smartdnotify -n standby,10,q
/dev/sda -H -m root -M daily -M exec /home/drew/cron/smartmon.sh -M daily -f -l error -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) -W 0,0,45 -d sat
/dev/sdb -H -m root -M daily -M exec /home/drew/cron/smartmon.sh -M daily -f -l error -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) -W 0,0,45 -d sat
/dev/sdc -H -m root -M daily -M exec /home/drew/cron/smartmon.sh -M daily -f -l error -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) -W 0,0,45 -d sat
/dev/sdd -H -m root -M daily -M exec /home/drew/cron/smartmon.sh -M daily -f -l error -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) -W 0,0,45 -d sat
/dev/sde -H -m root -M daily -M exec /home/drew/cron/smartmon.sh -M daily -f -l error -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) -W 0,0,47 -d sat
- Configure apcupsd for UPS alerts
- Configure Time Server for local network access
- Add UDP123/24 to IPTables
- Configure rsyslog for network clients
- Add UDP514/24 to IPTables
- Setup mail relay
- Remove 127.0.0.1 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
# echo drew > /root/.forward; echo "andrew: drew" >> /etc/aliases; newaliases; echo "root: drew" >> /etc/aliases; newaliases
- Add TCP25/0 to IPTables
- Configure logwatch
- Setup clamav virus protection for Samba and weekly scan
- Configure OpenVPN
Configure RAID and filesharing
- Mount raid array
- Configure md alerts
- Enable samba
- Add TCP139,445/24 to IPTables
# systemctl enable smb; systemctl start smb
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = drewserv
security = user
passdb backend = tdbsam
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
load printers = no
show add printer wizard = no
printcap name = /dev/null
disable spoolss = yes
[share]
path = /mnt/raid5
valid users = drew pbr
read only = No
create mode = 0665
directory mode = 0775
- Enable iSCSI
- Add TCP3260/24
- ^ Configure bacula and web interface
Setup cron jobs
- Keep anacron from waking me up at night!
# vi /etc/anacrontab // START_HOURS_RANGE
Configure Web Services
- ddclient for dynamicdns updates
- Configure MythTV / MythWeb / minidlna
- Add TCP80/24 and TCP443/0 for web services, TCP1900/0 TCP8200/0, TCP34531/0 for minidlna
port=8200
media_dir=/mnt/raid5/media
db_dir=/var/cache/minidlna
log_dir=/var/log/minidlna
album_art_names=Cover.jpg/cover.jpg/AlbumArtSmall.jpg/albumartsmall.jpg/AlbumArt.jpg/albumart.jpg/Album.jpg/album.jpg/Folder.jpg/folder.jpg/Thumb.jpg/thumb.jpg
inotify=yes
enable_tivo=no
strict_dlna=no
notify_interval=900
serial=12345678
model_number=1
root_container=B
- Configure pecl-php-apc / DrewWiki / WebDAV
Completing / Wrap-up
- Verify all log files in /var/log are not giving any errors or notifications
- Check logs for whats growing!
# ls -alR /var/log | grep ^- | awk {'print $5" "$8'} | sort -k 2| sort -n
- Create MondoRescue restore image