{"id":5721,"date":"2013-07-01T09:33:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T13:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/?p=5721"},"modified":"2013-07-01T09:33:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T13:33:17","slug":"csf-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/csf-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"CSF Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>Just a heads up to you tech heads out there that CSF made a few major changes to the firewall data structure.  These changes mostly affects the location of where the csf temporary IP block files are located.<\/p>\n<p>The csf temporary block files &#8216;csf.tempban&#8217; and &#8216;csf.tempip&#8217; are now located in \/var\/lib\/csf\/<\/p>\n<p>Below is the most recent change log which includes the directory structure changes for CSF:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/configserver.com\/free\/csf\/changelog.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/configserver.com\/free\/csf\/changelog.txt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>6.20   &#8211; Introduced a new directory structure to get closer to the Linux<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ol>Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS):<\/ol>\n<ol>\/etc\/csf\/           &#8211; (mostly) configuration files <\/ol>\n<ol>\/var\/lib\/csf\/       &#8211; temporary data files<\/ol>\n<ol>\/usr\/local\/csf\/bin\/ &#8211; scripts<\/ol>\n<ol>\/usr\/local\/csf\/lib\/ &#8211; perl modules and static data<\/ol>\n<ol>\/usr\/local\/csf\/tpl\/ &#8211; email alert templates<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Existing data and templates files are migrated into the new structure automatically. Some files and directories are symlinked to \/etc\/csf\/ for backwards compatibility and ease of use. See the following for individual file locations in the new configuration:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.configserver.com\/?p=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/blog.configserver.com\/?p=7<\/a><\/p>\n<ol>CC_LOOKUPS rDNS reporting improvements<\/ol>\n<ol>HTTP::Tiny upgraded to v0.033<\/ol>\n<ol>Removed Security Token check from Server Check Report now that it is implicitly set in v11.18.0+<\/ol>\n<ol>Switched the location of the csf.pl and lfd.pl binaries with their symlinks<\/ol>\n<ol>Code tidy for servercheck.pm, csfui.pl<\/ol>\n<ol>Allow comments to be appended to csf &#8211;tempdeny and csf &#8211;tempallow in<br \/>\n\t the same way as csf &#8211;deny and csf &#8211;allow. 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