I am having trouble with this minimal installs. Although I have heard that Centos 7 has some issues with OpenVZ minimal template, I planned to use it with some struggle. First problem I encounter is about misconfiguration of network cards in this OpenVZ template. Here is the offical bug report and here is a solution for the template. One needs to make an ethernet device up everytime after reboot if he did not have installed this patch to OpenVZ template using a command like this ifup ifcfg-venet0 or a temporary solution is adding ARPCHECK="no" line to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-venet0:0 for my case which survives until next reboot. Second issue is about fail2ban and various system logs. Banning failed ssh attempts is a common task of a system administrator. Fail2ban seems to work in case all ssh logs are streamed to file /var/log/secure. Unfortunately in Centos 7 minimal installs ssh logs are not streamed to this file. Actually there are very f...
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