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Improve Spam abuse protection in dovecot by restricting access to mail accounts by IP address (e. g. with ISPConfig 3)
Author: Croydon •
Tags: postfix, antivirus, debian, fedora, suse, ubuntu, centos, email •
Comments: 4 Improve Spam abuse protection in dovecot by restricting access to mail accounts by IP address (e. g. with ISPConfig 3) This howto will show you how to add ip restrictions to single mail accounts when using dovecot with MySQL. This is especially useful if you need to access a mail account from only one single ip or a few ips or if you want to block specific ip addresses from accessing the mail account (e. g. due to spam abuse).
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Securing SSH On Redhat/Centos With WiKID Two-Factor Authentication
Author: nowen •
Tags: centos, security •
Comments: 0 Securing SSH On Ubuntu With WiKID Two-Factor Authentication SSH offers a highly secure channel for remote administration of servers. However, if you face an audit for regulatory or business requirements, such as Visa/Mastercard PCI, you need to be aware of some potential authentication related short-comings that may cause headaches in an audit.
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Data recovery from accidentally deleted files or crashed drives in Redhat, CentOS and Fedora Linux
Author: Srijan Kishore •
Tags: fedora, centos •
Comments: 6 Data recovery from accidentally deleted files or crashed drives in Redhat, CentOS and Fedora Linux This tutorial will help you to recover data from accidentally deleted data from Linux-file systems. This is a very drastic mistake by any user/admin which costs for huge penalties. This script will be a boon for newbies/expert for data management. I will be using TestDisk for data-recovery. Here I have simplified the task with the help of a script.
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PHP session data is not deleted when using custom session management on debian (and ubuntu)
Author: Croydon •
Tags: apache, php •
Comments: 0 PHP session data is not deleted when using custom session management on debian (and ubuntu) On debian systems (as far as I know this applies to ubuntu, too) the garbage collector for PHP sessions is disabled by default. The corresponding setting in php.ini is session.gc_probability = 0 which enables the garbage collector when set to something greater than zero. The default value in PHP is 1, so the garbage collector is called with a probability of 1/100 at each PHP script call. On debian systems this setting is disabled because of the fact that the default path for session storage is not writable for the web server process (and it shouldn't be either). Deleting of outdates session files is done by a system cron job here.
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Rounding numbers to special values in PHP - e. g. "nice prices"
Author: Croydon •
Tags: php, web server •
Comments: 0 Rounding numbers to special values in PHP - e. g. "nice prices" Sometimes you need to round numbers to special values. Maybe you have a shop and want to calculate your selling prices automatically, but you don't like prices like 12.52 USD. Here's a small PHP function that can be used in many different ways to solve this problem.
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How To Add PPP Kernel Support To OpenVZ Containers
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, linux, openvz, virtualization •
Comments: 0 If you are trying to build a VPN tunnel from within an OpenVZ container to some other system, you will most likely get the error message /usr/sbin/pppd: Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support. This tutorial explains how you can add PPP kernel support to your OpenVZ container so that you can start VPN connections from your container.
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Data Recovery From Accidentally Deleted Files or Crashed Drives in Ubuntu
Author: Srijan Kishore •
Tags: debian, ubuntu •
Comments: 14 Data Recovery From Accidentally Deleted Files or Crashed Drives in Ubuntu This tutorial will help you to recover data from accidentally deleted data from Linux-file systems. This is a very drastic mistake by any user/admin which costs for huge penalties. This script will be a boon for newbies/expert for data management. I will be using TestDisk for data-recovery. Here I have simplified the task with the help of a script.
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Script for converting Outlook pst to Thunderbird/Evolution compatible format on Linux
Author: Srijan Kishore •
Tags: centos, debian, fedora, linux, suse, ubuntu •
Comments: 5 Script for converting Outlook pst to Thunderbird/Evolution compatible format on Linux This tutorial will show how to convert Outlook PST into Thunderbird/Evolution compatible SBD format. For this I have created a script for the conversion format.This will work in Debian/Ubuntu/CentOS too!
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The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.10 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, centos, ispconfig, web server •
Comments: 5 The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.10 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3] This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 5.10 x86_64 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.
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New Linux Container Virtualization Technology from Docker
Author: pentago • Tags: virtualization • Comments: 1New Linux Container Virtualization Technology from Docker The Docker, new container-based virtualization tech startup has started it’s venture to the server virtualization industry by offering their newest version of the software, the Docker 0.8. The company has been known for their production of a faster alternative when it comes to running virtual machines over that of hypervisors.
