Mochabomb

Block Bogon IP’s quickly and easily

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Had these errors recently on the exodus and genesis servers - been a lot of recent work on these…
pam_access(crond:account): access denied for user `someuser’ from `cron’
crond[9985]: CRON (someuser) ERROR: failed to open PAM security session: Success
crond[9985]: CRON (someuser) ERROR: cannot set security context

This link solved it:
http://hostechs.com/2008/07/cron-error-failed-to-open-pam-security-session/
* /etc/cron.allow - add users to this file
* /etc/security/access.conf - [...]

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Ever had dual NICs fighting to be king of the hill? This will help settle the battle once and for all.

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Ever had a process die and not know it until trying to use it? Last year dovecot was dying and running “service dovecot status” shows that - this script was born to address this for many processes. Its a work in progress, and please share any ways to make it better. [...]

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From the comments in the script:
“Created this script after I had several misconfigurations across many servers - this will
use values from the config files for testing - a wrapper for fail2ban-regex and eliminating
late-night, low-on-caffeine human errors in testing your config. Could also be used: after an
update to verify the configuration, run weekly cron, create [...]

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