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Step-by-step installation and configuration rsync server on CentOS
From transamrit.net & http://am3n.profusehost.net/index.php?id=70

Make sure xinetd and rsync is available, if not type
# yum -y install rsync xinetd

Add xinetd service to system
# chkconfig --add xinetd

Make sure xinetd running on init 3 and 5
# chkconfig --list xinetd

Enable rsync
# vi /etc/xinetd.d/rsync
Change disable = yes into disable = no

Create username and password for rsync client to use
# vi /etc/rsyncd.secrets
adminname:hispassword

Create configuration and shares for rsync daemon
# vi /etc/rsyncd.conf

———————-
max connections = 2
log file = /var/log/rsync.log
timeout = 300

[shares]
comment = shared data stored here
path = /home/adminname/shares
read only = false
list = yes
uid = adminname
gid = adminname
auth users = adminname
secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
hosts allow = 10.10.105.0/24
———————-

Secure /etc/rsyncd.*
# chown root.root /etc/rsyncd.*
# chmod 600 /etc/rsyncd.*

Restart xinetd
# service xinetd restart

Make sure rsync now running
# chkconfig --list

Perhaps you also want to enable port 873 tcp and udp on your firewall so other can connect to your server.

mysqldump -u[uname] -p[password] [table] | mysql -u[uname] -p[password] –host=[ip address] -C [table]

I.E.: mysqldump -umy_user_name -pmy_secret_password foo_table | mysql -umy_2nd_user_name -pmy_2nd_secret_password –host=1.1.1.1 -C foo_table

(whole command should be on one line of course.)

I need to compile php for Windows so that the ftp_ssl_connect function would be available. This is how I did it. All of this is as of today, May 19, 2008. Windows XP Pro SP2.

Type these commands into the Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt:
Link To Commands
You will see many, many compile warnings. This is quite normal.

If everything went well, you should now have php.exe in the folder C:\work\Release_TS\ which has ftp_ssl_connect functionality.

Great post here:
http://movabletripe.com/archive/recursively-chmod-directories-only/

# recursively chmod directories only
find . -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;

# recursively chmod files only
find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

All I had to do was comment out the loopback only restriction and php’s mail() fuction started working great!

vi /etc/mail/sendmail.mc

look for:
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl

change it to this:
dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl

remake the sendmail.cf file
m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

restart sendmail:
service sendmail restart

Here is a great tutorial about the Bind dns server:

http://www.howtoforge.com/traditional_dns_howto

I need more than one ssl website on a new CentOS 5 machine. Here is how to add another ip address to eth0.

http://www.netadmintools.com/art496.html

vi /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

add:
chroot_local_user=NO

uncomment:
chroot_list_enable=YES
chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd/chroot_list

vi /etc/vsftpd/chroot_list

add:
[restricted username]

service vsftpd restart

done!

Copied here so i wont lose it…

http://thewebmasterscafe.net/webhosting/vmware-tools-on-linux.html

Prior to installing the VMware Tools, there are a few things you want to do. The first step would be to install the kernel header files and a C compiler:

# yum install gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel

The second thing would be to create a symbolic link pointing to your kernel header files:

# ln -s /usr/src/kernels/[your kernel version] /usr/src/linux

Now you’re ready to install the VMware Tools. From the VMware Server Console (with your virtual machine running), click on “VM => Install VMware Tools”……?. Nothing is supposed to be happening at this point, it’s just like you inserted a virtual CD. From the command line, mount the cdrom drive, copy the installation files to a directory on your virtual hard drive and untar them:

# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
# cd /mnt/cdrom
# cp VMwareTools-[version].tar.gz /tmp
# cd /tmp
# umount /mnt/cdrom
# tar zxf VMwareTools-[version].tar.gz

Execute the VMware Tools installation script:

# cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
# ./vmware-install.pl

Go through the installation and answer all the questions. I’ve left every settings to its default value.

When you’re done, simply reboot your virtual machine. I’ve had a little problem with X as it wouldn’t start upon reboot. I just used the X configuration wizard (which launched automatically) to make some adjustments, rebooted the VM again and everything worked fine.