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How to Change Time Zone for System Date on CentOS!

Posted on July 6, 2011 by admin

Here’s how to change time zone for system date on your CentOS web server:

Go into the directory zoneinfo:

cd /usr/share/zoneinfo

Then find the right zone file for you such as for me Los Angeles is for PST (Pacific Standard Time), which is here:

/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles

Then simply copy over that file to /etc/localtime like this:

cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime

Run the date command:

date

and you should get something like:

Wed Jul 6 16:56:47 PDT 2011

Instead of the othe

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Simple Firewall for CentOS Linux!

Posted on April 3, 2011 by admin

For those of you who are getting DoS attacks and whatnot on your CentOS server, you might want to first make sure you have only WWW (port 80) and SSH (port 22) open.

You can do this with iptables (which is pain is the a**) or just use this: yum install system-config-securitylevel Then do: /usr/bin/system-config-securitylevel-tui

And there’s a “Customize” menu where you can set WWW and SSH open.

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