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• Installing Debian Squeeze On Pogoplug v3/Oxnas Cleanly

  Author: kuleszdl • Tags: debian • Comments: 15

  Installing Debian Squeeze On Pogoplug v3/Oxnas CleanlyArchLinux ARM ("ALARM") has officially dropped support for the PogoPlug v3/Oxnas in June 2013. Actually, the Oxnas port was already broken before due to ArchLinux' cutting edge philosophy and causing users many troubles, although it was working fine somewhen in 2012. The main purpose of this tutorial is to provide instructions on how to build and install a Debian rootfs from scratch on the Pogoplug v3/Oxnas, using only official binaries from Debian and ALARM.

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• Removing Signatures From Various Packages

  Author: MaddinXx • Tags: security, debian • Comments: 0

  Removing Signatures From Various Packages This tutorial shows you how to remove the Debian signature/version info from packages such as Apache, Postfix or SSH. There are various reasons to remove the signature (and therefore hide that you are using Debian/a specific version). The most important one is about security. When a hacker knows the distro you are using, he can search for well-known security issues and start an attack against them. If he doesn't know the distro in use, chances to not find any security holes are much larger.

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• Monitoring Drupal With Opsview

  Author: bking74 • Tags: monitoring • Comments: 0

  Monitoring Drupal With Opsview In this howto post we'll show you how to use the nagios monitoring plugin to monitor your Drupal CMS installation using Opsview's application monitoring software. With this module you'll be able use Opsview tell you if your Drupal website is running as expected.

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• Monitoring VMware ESX/vSphere With Opsview

  Author: bking74 • Tags: monitoring • Comments: 1

  Monitoring VMware ESX/vSphere With Opsview Opsview offers a powerful, flexible way to monitor virtualized devices. In this post we'll show you howto monitor VMware ESX and VM’s running on ESX, using Opsview.

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• Monitoring OpenStack Swift With Opsview

  Author: bking74 • Tags: monitoring • Comments: 0

  Monitoring OpenStack Swift With Opsview This is a quick how-to for Opsview users who need to monitor an OpenStack (Essex) Swift installation.

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• Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Debian Wheezy)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: antivirus, debian, email, postfix • Comments: 21

  This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier, so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota. Passwords are stored in encrypted form in the database. In addition to that, this tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and SquirrelMail.

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• phpvirtualbox - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.2 and phpvirtualbox On A Headless Ubuntu 12.04 Server

  Author: ldrrp • Tags: virtualization, ubuntu, virtualbox • Comments: 11

  phpvirtualbox - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.2 and phpvirtualbox On A Headless Ubuntu 12.04 Server phpvirtualbox is a web-based VirtualBox front-end written in PHP that allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. It tries to resemble the VirtualBox GUI as much as possible to make work with it as easy as possible. It is a nice replacement for the VirtualBox GUI if you run VirtualBox in headless servers. This tutorial explains how to install phpvirtualbox on an Ubuntu 12.04 server to manage a locally installed, headless VirtualBox (version 4.2).

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• Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support (LEMP) On Ubuntu 13.04

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: mysql, nginx, php, ubuntu, web server • Comments: 3

  Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on an Ubuntu 13.04 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP) .

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• How To Create A Fiber Channel SAN Using SCST With QLogic HBA On Linux Debian 6

  Author: joedm09 • Tags: debian, storage • Comments: 2

  How To Create A Fiber Channel SAN Using SCST With QLogic HBA On Linux Debian 6 I created this how-to as none of the other instructions on the internet work correctly. This is done specifically  for Ubuntu and Debian and is based on the 2.6.32 although with some common sense this should work with any distro and any kernel.

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• Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 13.04 (LAMP)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, mysql, php, ubuntu, web server • Comments: 13

  LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 13.04 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

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