Peeps setup
Table of Contents
Initial Setup
- Download CentOS 6.7 and use dd to copy iso to USB
- Version 6.7 is supported until 2020, no support for Raid Control on CentOS 7 and would require hackish method to install on hardware
- Install
- Time Zone (pops ntpd), Network, Installed Software
- start sshd
- # chkconfig --add sshd
- # chkconfig --list sshd
- # chkconfig sshd on
- # service sshd start
- DNS Record
- %poprocks # ipa dnsrecord-add votesmart.org peeps --a-ip-address=192.168.255.26
- Change hostname
- /etc/sysconfig/network
- /etc/hosts
- Change runlevel
- /etc/inittab
- Install Updates
- EPEL & IUS repositories
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sudo yum install epel-release wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh epel-release-6*.rpm
- Disable IPv6
- Add to /etc/sysctl.conf
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# Disable ipv6 net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1 net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
- sysctl -p
- Disable Firewall and SELINUX
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service iptables stop chkconfig iptables off vim /etc/selinux/config SELINUX=disabled # change
Applications
- screen
- nload, iftop
- ntop
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yum -y install ntop ntop enter password # this is the password needed for webui vim /etc/ntop.conf # limit ntop to listening on a specific interface and port --http-server 192.168.255.0:3000 --https-server 192.168.255.0:3001 service ntop start chkconfig ntop on
Setup SMTP Relay
- /etc/postfix/main.cf
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myhostname = peeps.votesmart.org mydomain = votesmart.org myorigin = $mydomain inet_interfaces = all mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, mail.votesmart.org mynetworks = 192.168.255.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8 relay_domains = home_mailbox = Maildir/
- /etc/postfix/genric
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@chickostick root@votesmart.org @chickostick.votesmart.org root@votesmart.org @poprocks root@votesmart.org @poprocks.votesmart.org root@votesmart.org
- poprocks DNS:
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mail.votesmart.org A 192.168.255.26 - dig votesmart.org. MX
- votesmart.org. 86400 IN MX 40 ALT4.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
- votesmart.org. 86400 IN MX 20 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
- votesmart.org. 86400 IN MX 30 ALT3.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
- votesmart.org. 86400 IN MX 10 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
- votesmart.org. 86400 IN MX 5 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
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