Configure CSF on CentOS 7

Install needful packages if you haven’t yet

yum install wget vim perl-libwww-perl.noarch perl-Time-HiRes -y

Download and install CSF

cd /usr/src/
wget https://download.configserver.com/csf.tgz
tar -xzf csf.tgz
cd csf
sh install.sh

Run test:

cd /usr/local/csf/bin/
perl csftest.pl

Disable default Centos 7 firewall if you have it installed

systemctl stop firewalld
systemctl disable firewalld

Disable testing mode

cd /etc/csf/
vim csf.conf
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How to get rid of /tmp/atop.d/atop.acct

You should never terminate atop by 'kill -9', because then it has no chance to stop process accounting; as a result the accounting file may consume a lot of disk space after a while!!!

Lets do this smoothly:

systemctl stop atopd
systemctl disable atopd

Check atop processes
ps auxfS |grep atop

Kill if any using 'kill -15'
kill -15 PID

Check for links and unlink if any:
ls /etc/systemd/system/ |grep atop

Remove atopd.service
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