Turn off csf notifications for specific processes

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Process Tracking

This option enables tracking of user and nobody processes and examines them for suspicious executables or open network ports. Its purpose is to identify potential exploit processes that are running on the server, even if they are obfuscated to appear as system services. If a suspicious process is found an alert email is sent with relevant information. It is then the responsibility of the recipient to investigate the process further as the script takes no further action. Processes (PIDs) are only reported once unless lfd is restarted.

There is an ignore file /etc/csf/csf.pignore which can be used to whitelist either usernames or full paths to binaries. Care should be taken with ignoring users or files so that you don’t force false-negatives.

You must use the following format:

  • exe:/full/path/to/file
  • user:username
  • cmd:command line
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