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Also, I like to turn off the default Red Hat firewall. It is assumed that the reader knows how to do both of these; if not, there are plenty of resources on the Web describing how.

Additional Packages

Now that you have your system set up, there are some things that we need to install to make Open-AudIT work. 

CentOS Additional Packages

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General Settings

Before you start you should determine the following:

The hostname of your server.

The timezone of your server as defined in http://

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www.

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php.

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net/

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manual/

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en/timezones.php

The IP Address of your server.

CentOS Additional Packages

CentOS requires the EPEL repository to be enabled in order to install php-mcrypt.

Debian / Ubuntu Additional Packages

All required packages are in the existing repositories already.

Open-AudIT Installation

The easiest way to get Open-AudIT installed and running is to download the source package to the server. From the server console extract the .zip file and cd into the open-audit directory. 

To install on CentOS / RedHat, make sure you are root then run

./other/install_centos_redhat.sh

To install on Debian / Ubuntu run

sudo ./other/install_debian_ubuntu.sh