CentOS6

Adjust rate-limiting for rsyslog

These instructions are for rsyslog 5.8.10 that comes with CentOS 6

/etc/rsyslog.conf

# Disable rate-limiting completely
$SystemLogRateLimitInterval 0

or

# Set the rate limiting to 500 messages in 5s
$SystemLogRateLimitInterval 5
$SystemLogRateLimitBurst 500

Disable mingetty on extra tty

Edit /etc/init/start-ttys.conf so that

env ACTIVE_CONSOLES=/dev/tty[1-6]

becomes

env ACTIVE_CONSOLES=/dev/tty[1-2]

And then to stop the ones that are already running without rebooting:

# initctl stop tty TTY=/dev/tty6
tty stop/waiting

Then repeat for the other ttys.

named 'rndc status' not working

[root@server6122 ~]# rndc status
rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused

Check:

• Portreserve service may interfere with bind

 # service portreserve stop; chkconfig portreserve off

• Permissions on /etc/rndc.key - group should be named, not root!

 # ls -l /etc/rndc.key
 -rw-r----- 1 root named 77 Jan 13  2014 /etc/rndc.key

Really flushing nscd cache

Originally copied from http://stijn.tintel.eu/blog/2012/05/10/how-to-really-flush-the-various-nscd-caches

The nscd caches are saved to disk, usually /var/db/nscd

[root@dev402 ~]# ls /var/db/nscd/
group hosts netgroup passwd services

When you stop nscd, these files will just stay there, so restarting really doesn't flush your nscd caches. What you need to do is use the --invalidate option, e.g.:

# nscd --invalidate=passwd
# nscd --invalidate=group