freshclam process starts despite clamav disabled

freshclam process started by /etc/cron.daily/freshclam script which doesn’t check if clamd is disabled, to resolve this we have to modify the /etc/cron.daily/freshclam script adding the check whether the clamd is disabled.

Log into your Ensim as root
Open the /etc/cron.daily/freshclam
Replace the following lines

/usr/bin/freshclam \
–quiet \
–datadir=”/var/clamav” \
–log=”$LOG_FILE” \
–log-verbose \
–daemon-notify=”/etc/clamd.conf”

with the lines

if [ "x" != "x`chkconfig --list clamd | grep on`" ]; then
/usr/bin/freshclam \
–quiet \
–datadir=”/var/clamav” \
–log=”$LOG_FILE” \
–log-verbose \
–daemon-notify=”/etc/clamd.conf”
fi

Users are not allowed to create hard links for directories. This might transform the directory tree into a graph with cycles, thus making it impossible to locate a file according to its name.

Links can be created only among files included in the same file system. This is a serious limitation since modern Unix systems may include several file systems located on different disks and/or partitions, and users may be unaware of the physical divisions between them.

In order to overcome these limitations, soft links (also called symbolic links) have been introduced. Symbolic links are short files that contain an arbitrary path name of another file. The path name may refer to any file located in any file system; it may even refer to a nonexistent file.

The Unix command:

$ ln -s f1 f2

Creates a new soft link with path name f2 that refers to path name f1.

Proftpd service may not start after fresh install from a Virtuozzo template

Resolution

Change the /etc/xinetd.d/xproftpd file and restart services

Log as root to your box

Open the /etc/xinetd.d/xproftpd file using a text editor

vi /etc/xinetd.d/xproftpd

Change value of “disable =” to “yes”.

Restart xinetd service

/etc/init.d/xinetd restart

Start proftpd service

/etc/init.d/proftpd start

Reference: http://parallels.com/

MySQL database does not work and returns “Can’t create/write to file” error

The problem is related to the mysql directory permission.

‘mysql’ user is not able to create a temporary file in /var/lib/mysql/ directory due to permissions lack

# ls -lda ~mysql/

drwxr-xr-x 5 root mysql 4096 Aug 31 09:56 /var/lib/mysql/

The solution is to go to /etc/init.d/mysqld_app_init file and change

chown root.mysql /var/lib/mysql

to

chown mysql.mysql /var/lib/mysql

Then restart mysqld service or just change owner of /var/lib/mysql directory to “mysql” instead of “root”

chown root /var/lib/mysql

Advanced tool to enable/disable recursive DNS lookups

DNS recursion support is defined under BIND 9, using the `recursion’ and the `allow-recursion’ directives, as part of the options grammar.

Download

http://download.swsoft.com/ensim/download/pro/linux/kb/2344/recursivedns

Installation Instructions

Download the script and copy in “/usr/lib/opcenter/bind/” directory.

recursivedns : ‘recursivedns’, allows you to modify the DNS recursion settings for your EPL server.

Invoking the script

To display the recursion settings, just run `recursivedns
To turn on recursion support, run `recursivedns on
To turn off recursion support, run `recursivedns off
To allow recursion to all hosts, run `recursivedns +all

To disallow recursion to all hosts, run `recursivedns -all
To allow recursion to a particular host, run `recursivedns +HOST
To disallow recursion to a particular host, run `recursivedns -HOST
To display the usage, run `recursivedns –help

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