This setup is for a wordpress server that mail-out submissions on the website and assumes that 1) Outbound only. All mail is sent-out via SMTP. You don't want mail retained on the server. 2) there is more than one recipient, re. one for WordPress form submissions and a webmaster (or root). 3) and you are using Google as your SMTP....
This is not as simple as even the most popular blogs explain. sudo apt update sudo apt -y install software-properties-common dirmngr apt-transport-https lsb-release ca-certificates sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/php.gpg https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg echo “deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php7.3.list sudo apt update sudo apt -y install php7.3 php7.3-cli php7.3-fpm php7.3-json php7.3-pdo php7.3-mysql php7.3-zip php7.3-gd php7.3-mbstring php7.3-curl php7.3-xml php7.3-bcmath php7.3-json sudo...
This works. There are a lot of examples out there that don’t work. I found that an additional edit (bottom) made all the difference. These are the typical changes you’ll find online. https://gist.github.com/vancluever/d34b41eb77e6d077887c But here is the change that made all the difference for me. Edit all the tracker files and change X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled to False. re. sudo vi /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-apps.desktop X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false
# Configuration file for ddclient # # /etc/ddclient.conf ## ddclient configuration file daemon=600 # check every 600 seconds syslog=yes ## Default options protocol=dyndns2 ## Detect IP with our CheckIP server use=web, web=checkip.dyndns.com, web-skip=’IP Address’ server=members.dyndns.org # log update msgs to syslog mail-failure=user@gmail.com # Mail failed updates to user pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid # record PID in file. ## DynDNS username and password here...
My Notes Only taken from various sources. There are other much more complete guides for Fail2ban available. Install Fail2ban sudo apt-get install fail2ban filter definitions located in /etc/fail2ban/filter.d action definitions located in /etc/fail2ban/action.d The following is a minimal setup. Configure Fail2ban sudo vi /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf Configuration for jail.conf destemail = you@example.com # Email of where alerts should be sent to ignoreip...
The linked post was written in 2012 explaining what I think most users of Padre encounter, and therefore I won’t repeat anything already nicely documented there except to quote “And please do not feed me a junk line about it works on my Linux distribution, I do not care. Pretend I am a normal end user for a moment. If...