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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Creating Encrypted FTP Backups With duplicity And ftplicity On Debian Lenny
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: backup, debian •
Comments: 5 Creating Encrypted FTP Backups With duplicity And ftplicity On Debian Lenny When you rent a dedicated server nowadays, almost all providers give you FTP backup space for your server on one of the provider's backup systems. This tutorial shows how you can use duplicity and ftplicity to create encrypted (so that nobody with access to the backup server can read sensitive data in your backups) backups on the provider's remote backup server over FTP. ftplicity is a duplicity wrapper script that allows us to use duplicity without interaction (i.e., you do not have to type in any passwords).
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Installing Speed Dreams 1.4.0 RC1 On Ubuntu 9.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 Installing Speed Dreams 1.4.0 RC1 On Ubuntu 9.10 Speed Dreams is is a free, 3d cross-platform, open source motorsport simulation and racing game, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). This guide shows how to install it on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop.
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How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On Debian Lenny
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, ftp, security •
Comments: 2 How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On Debian Lenny This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on a Debian Lenny system. In the end, whenever a file gets uploaded through PureFTPd, ClamAV will check the file and delete it if it is malware.
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Chrooting Apache2 With mod_chroot On Debian Lenny
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, debian, security •
Comments: 2 Chrooting Apache2 With mod_chroot On Debian Lenny This guide explains how to set up mod_chroot with Apache2 on a Debian Lenny system. With mod_chroot, you can run Apache2 in a secure chroot environment and make your server less vulnerable to break-in attempts that try to exploit vulnerabilities in Apache2 or your installed web applications.
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How To Set Up A USB-Over-IP Server And Client With Mandriva 2010.0
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: mandriva •
Comments: 0 How To Set Up A USB-Over-IP Server And Client With Mandriva 2010.0 This tutorial shows how to set up a USB-over-IP server with Mandriva 2010.0 as well as a USB-over-IP client (also running Mandriva 2010.0). The USB/IP Project aims to develop a general USB device sharing system over IP network. To share USB devices between computers with their full functionality, USB/IP encapsulates "USB I/O messages" into TCP/IP payloads and transmits them between computers. USB-over-IP can be useful for virtual machines, for example, that don't have access to the host system's hardware - USB-over-IP allows virtual machines to use remote USB devices.
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Server Monitoring With munin And monit On Mandriva 2010.0
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: mandriva, monitoring •
Comments: 0 Server Monitoring With munin And monit On Mandriva 2010.0 In this article I will describe how you can monitor your Mandriva 2010.0 server with munin and monit. munin produces nifty little graphics about nearly every aspect of your server (load average, memory usage, CPU usage, MySQL throughput, eth0 traffic, etc.) without much configuration, whereas monit checks the availability of services like Apache, MySQL, Postfix and takes the appropriate action such as a restart if it finds a service is not behaving as expected. The combination of the two gives you full monitoring: graphics that lets you recognize current or upcoming problems (like "We need a bigger server soon, our load average is increasing rapidly."), and a watchdog that ensures the availability of the monitored services.
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Chrooting Apache2 With mod_chroot On Fedora 12
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, fedora, security •
Comments: 0 Chrooting Apache2 With mod_chroot On Fedora 12 This guide explains how to set up mod_chroot with Apache2 on a Fedora 12 system. With mod_chroot, you can run Apache2 in a secure chroot environment and make your server less vulnerable to break-in attempts that try to exploit vulnerabilities in Apache2 or your installed web applications.
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Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On OpenSUSE 11.2
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ftp, suse •
Comments: 0 Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On OpenSUSE 11.2 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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Tweaking Hidden Settings With Ubuntu Tweak On Ubuntu 9.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 4 Tweaking Hidden Settings With Ubuntu Tweak On Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu Tweak is a tool that lets you change hidden Ubuntu settings, for example: hide or change the splash screen, show or hide the Computer, Home, Trash, and Network icons, change Metacity, Nautilus, power management, and security settings, etc. Currently Ubuntu Tweak is available only for the Ubuntu GNOME desktop, i.e., it will not work on Kubuntu or Xubuntu. This short guide shows how to install and use Ubuntu Tweak.
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How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On OpenSUSE 11.2
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, suse •
Comments: 3 How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On OpenSUSE 11.2 This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with Apache2 on an OpenSUSE 11.2 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to upload and download files.
