Getting Things Done in the New Year
Author: Joe Topjian <joe [at] adminspotting [dot] net>

What a better way to start the New Year off than to get organized. There's this really cool Rails application called Tracks that will give you a web-based management interface for organization. Setting it up is pretty easy, and that's what I'll be going over here.

Proftp Server Web interface or GUI Tools

The main purpose of these tools is easy to maintain proftp server

ProFTP Administrator

a web-based tool written in PHP aimed at managing users and groups for a ftp-server called "proFTPd". Because of the ammount of work gone into this project it also doubles as a system- information tool providing information like free hard-drive space, memory- statistics and much more (Something like phpSysInfo - with the notable difference that my status code so far only supports Linux, FreeBSD and Windows NT). To get a feel for how all this works you can take a gander at the screenshots-page and figure out for yourself if this is the right tool for you.

Install Steps VHCS 2.4.6.2 in Debian 3.1 base install

On install of Debian, select no packages to be installed, allow it to connect to the internet and let it download anything it needs, usually its libs etc. Exim is most likely installed at this point so dont worry it will be removed shortly.

1).vi /etc/apt/sources.list (add the following sources)

Code:
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main
deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main

This guide will show you how to use mod_auth_mysql with Apache 2 and Debian.

Firstly if you haven't alrteady done so throw some of the essentials on such as Apache 2 / PHP 4 / MySQL

apt-get install libapache2-mod-php mysql-server php4-mysql libapache2-mod-auth-mysql

Booting Linux from a mac with firewire requires either editing initrd of an initrd kernel or building a custom one without initrd and with scsi and firewire support compiled in. Not for newbies, unless you know already how to make your firewire drive work under Linux (even if you cannot make it boot).

The new beta debian etch installer is able to recognize firewire drives, so I succesfully compiled a kernel and installed the bootloader, so that the installing process could complete. Tested with a maxtor one touch and a titanium powerbook v.2

The Perfect Setup - Mandriva 2006 Free Edition

This is a detailed description about the steps to be taken to setup a Mandriva 2006 Free Edition based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.).

I have installed monodevelop with sudo apt-get install monodevelop
but it crashed on my machine (amd64) and mono version was quite old 1.1.8.3 (default on breezy)
Remove the old version apt-get remove mono monodevelop

wget http://go-mono.com/sources/libgdiplus-1.1/libgdiplus-1.1.10.tar.gz
tar zxf libgdiplus-1.1.10.tar.gz
cd libgdiplus-1.1.10
./configure --prefix=/usr
make;sudo make install;cd ..

wget http://go-mono.com/sources/mono-1.1/mono-1.1.10.tar.gz
tar zxf mono-1.1.10.tar.gz
cd mono-1.1.10
./configure --prefix=/usr
make;sudo make install;cd ..

Download x86-64 (or i386) free pascal binary package from sf.net

tar -xvf fpc-2.0.0.x86_64-linux.tar

sudo sh install.sh

A How To for DD-WRT, FreeRadius and Chillispot.

Creating a Wi-Fi Internet hotspot service from scratch can seem like a daunting task. I had many sleepless nights trying to get to grips with FreeRadius, DD-WRT, Chillispot etc. I hope that this How To helps you to avoid some of the problems I encountered along the way.

Regards Sean Bracken

Linksys WRT54GS + OpenWRT + ChillSpot + FreeRadius (with Mysql authentication and accounting ) + PHP/Perl

A very Brief introduction

OpenWrt is a Linux distribution for Linksys WRT54G. It provides minimal firmware with add-on packages. Its allows the customization with broad range of software packages available for it.
We will be using OpenWrt as a replacement to the original Linksys firmware that comes pre-installed with the router.

ChilliSpot is a wireless LAN access controller. It is used for authenticating users of wireless LAN. It supports web based login for hotspots.
The Chilli daemon plays a primary role in the entire hotspot setup. It runs on the router and provides users access to the wireless Hotspot.