[CentOS] securing a remotely hosted machine

On 8/20/2010 11:26 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:21:49AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> In some cases I've tried to edit in the right values but as the machine
>> came up it renamed all of the ifcfg-eth? files with a .bak extension and
>> created new ones using dhcp.
>
> Since you're bringing that up - I've seen it too - what does that and how do
> we drive a stake through its heart?

Yes, if anyone knows where this is documented, please point it out.  I 
think it is extremely important to know that you can revive your backups 
on replacement hardware and so far this seems mostly like black magic.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com