Articles by Falko Timme
About Falko Timme
Falko Timme is an experienced Linux administrator and founder of Timme Hosting, a leading nginx business hosting company in Germany. He is one of the most active authors on HowtoForge since 2005 and one of the core developers of ISPConfig since 2000. He has also contributed to the O'Reilly book "Linux System Administration".
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Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On CentOS 5.0
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, ftp •
Comments: 5 Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On CentOS 5.0 This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.
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Installing Beryl On A CentOS 5.0 Desktop
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: centos, desktop • Comments: 2Installing Beryl On A CentOS 5.0 Desktop This tutorial shows how you can install and use Beryl on a CentOS 5.0 desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card). With Beryl, you can make your desktop use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube.
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How To Harden PHP5 With Suhosin On Mandriva 2007 Spring
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: mandriva, php, security • Comments: 0How To Harden PHP5 With Suhosin On Mandriva 2007 Spring This tutorial shows how to harden PHP5 with Suhosin on a Mandriva 2007 Spring server. From the Suhosin project page: "Suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installations that was designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core. Suhosin comes in two independent parts, that can be used separately or in combination. The first part is a small patch against the PHP core, that implements a few low-level protections against buffer overflows or format string vulnerabilities and the second part is a powerful PHP extension that implements all the other protections."
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Installing Zabbix (Server And Agent) On Debian Etch
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, monitoring •
Comments: 2 Installing Zabbix (Server And Agent) On Debian Etch Zabbix is a solution for monitoring applications, networks, and servers. With Zabbix, you can monitor multiple servers at a time, using a Zabbix server that comes with a web interface (that is used to configure Zabbix and holds the graphs of your systems) and Zabbix agents that are installed on the systems to be monitored. The Zabbix agents deliver the desired data to the Zabbix server. This tutorial shows how you can install the Zabbix server and agent on a Debian Etch system.
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Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 7
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora, ftp • Comments: 0Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 7 This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.
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Using Compiz, Beryl, And Metisse On A Mandriva 2007 Spring Desktop
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, mandriva • Comments: 0Using Compiz, Beryl, And Metisse On A Mandriva 2007 Spring Desktop This tutorial shows how you can use Compiz, Beryl, and Metisse on a Mandriva 2007 Spring (Mandriva 2007.1) desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card). With Compiz, Beryl, and Metisse, you can make your desktop use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube (although the desktop cube isn't available on Metisse).
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Data Recovery With TestDisk
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: other, debian • Comments: 11Data Recovery With TestDisk TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software which was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting your partition table). TestDisk is available for lots of operating systems, including Linux, Windows, and MacOS, and supports lots of filesystems.
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Installing ModSecurity2 On Debian Etch
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, debian, security • Comments: 15Installing ModSecurity2 On Debian Etch This article shows how to install and configure ModSecurity (version 2) for use with Apache2 on a Debian Etch system. ModSecurity is an Apache module that provides intrusion detection and prevention for web applications. It aims at shielding web applications from known and unknown attacks, such as SQL injection attacks, cross-site scripting, path traversal attacks, etc.
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Installing Beryl Or Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 7 Desktop
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, fedora • Comments: 3Installing Beryl Or Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 7 Desktop This tutorial shows how you can install and use Beryl or Compiz Fusion on a Fedora 7 desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card). With both Beryl and Compiz Fusion, you can make your desktop use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube.
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Virtual Hosting With vsftpd And MySQL On Debian Etch
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, ftp •
Comments: 15 Virtual Hosting With vsftpd And MySQL On Debian Etch Vsftpd is one of the most secure and fastest FTP servers for Linux. Usually vsftpd is configured to work with system users. This document describes how to install a vsftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine.
