Configure Fail2Ban for permanent and persistent bans

If you’re running server, you probably know its exposed services are constantly being probed and attacks are being attempted against it. Fortunately, an extremely useful, nice and nifty tool is here to help: Fail2Ban.

Fail2Ban scans service’s log files for patterns defined as regular expressions and, if an offending pattern is found a certain number of times within a given time frame, the corresponding source IP is banned for a configurable time, using local firewall rules such as iptables.

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Security & bug fix releases PHP 7.1.18, 7.2.6

Security & bug fix releases

http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.1.18

http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.2.6

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.2.6. This is a primarily a bugfix release which includes a memory corruption fix for EXIF.

PHP 7.2 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.1.18. All PHP 7.1 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

How to set up software RAID1 on a running LVM system (incl. GRUB2 configuration) (Ubuntu 18.04)

This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running LVM system (Ubuntu 18.04). The GRUB2 bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

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