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UNIX / Linux: Send E-mail When sudo Runs

I‘m not told to use the root user to perform activities that do not require it. I’ve configured sudo for myself and for other web developers so that they can restart MySQL or Apache web server. How do I send email when sudo run by one of my user? How do I keep track of user login done via sudo command?

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Configure Linux As Bastion Host

What is bastion host? How do I configure bastion host under Linux? How do I create a firewall for a bastion host under any Linux distribution?

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Postfix Hide Client (MUA) System IP Address / Hostname

I‘ve central mail server gateway. All of our internal systems through this box. How do I remove or hide the hostnames and IP addresses of our internal systems from the messages headers before they go out to other users for security purpose?

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Linux Limit CPU Usage Per Process

I don’t want background process to eat all my CPU. I know how to find out CPU utilization but how do I limit the cpu usage of a process under Linux operating system? How do I force a process to limit itself to 25% only?

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Linux Tune Network Stack (Buffers Size) To Increase Networking Performance

I‘ve two servers located in two different data center. Both server deals with a lot of concurrent large file transfers. But network performance is very poor for large files and performance degradation take place with a large files. How do I tune TCP under Linux to solve this problem?

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CentOS / RHEL Configure Yum Automatic Update Retrieval and Installation

The yum command line tool is used to install and update software packages under RHEL / CentOS Linux server. I know how to apply updates using yum update command line, but I’d like to use cron to manually update packages where appropriate. How do I configure yum to install software patches / updates automatically with cron?