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  • Introduction To The Enlightenment 17 Window Manager For X (Ubuntu 11.10)

    ubuntu Author: CSchTags: , Comments: 1

    Introduction To The Enlightenment 17 Window Manager For X (Ubuntu 11.10) This tutorial is supposed to show some features of the Enlightenment window manager as an alternative to the often used Gnome and KDE  managers. I will install Enlightenment on a desktop computer with Ubuntu 11.10 installed. Apart from the login screen however, all of the controls shown on the screenshots should be the same for every installation of enlightenment, whatever distribution you install it on. Enlightenment is already included in the Ubuntu repositories, therefore Ubuntu users and those of any Ubuntu derivatives won't have any problems installing it. It is also available for download for most other distributions though.

  • Qmail OpenLdap On Ubuntu

    ubuntu Author: nbhadauriaTags: , Comments: 8

    Qmail OpenLdap On Ubuntu This guide will help you easily set up a email server On Ubuntu using Qmail as MTA, OpenLDAP as a back-end for users, and Courier IMAP for IMAP server.

  • How To Monitor And Manage IPMI Management Console

    Author: EugeneR.Tags: , Comments: 0

    How To Monitor And Manage IPMI Management Console This guide provides an overview on how to monitor and manage IPMI Management Console with Verax NMS. The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is a standardized computer system interface used by system administrators to manage a computer system and monitor its operation.

  • Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 12.1

    opensuse VMWare Image Download Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , Comments: 0

    Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 12.1 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 OpenSUSE 12.1 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.

  • Installing iRedMail And Mailman On Debian Squeeze

    debian Author: jasonyTags: , Comments: 8

    Installing iRedMail And Mailman On Debian Squeeze I'm a big fan of iRedMail, which is basically a packaged version of Postfix and the other bits that make Postfix cool, like Spamassassin, greylisting and an LDAP or MySql back-end. One thing I wanted with iRedMail is Mailman, my favourite mailing list server. Integrating the two can be a mission though, so here's some instruction to save you from quite a bit of pain.

  • Configuring CAS On Ubuntu For Two-Factor Authentication With WiKID

    ubuntu Author: nowenTags: , Comments: 0

    Configuring CAS On Ubuntu For Two-Factor Authentication With WiKID Single sign-on is a great technology. Requiring users to login to multiple applications is huge hassle, encourages password reuse and simple passwords. Security needs to focus on usability. If you can make a user's life better while increasing security, everybody wins. In this how-to we will set up the open-source CAS SSO product with the WiKID Strong Authentication Server for two-factor authentication for sessions and mutual https authentication for host authentication. Obviously using two-factor authentication for the login increases security because the user must have the factors to get access, in this case, knowledge of the PIN and possession of the private key embedded in the token. The CAS server is running on Ubuntu 11.04 Server and is using Radius to talk to the WiKID Strong Authentication Server Enterprise Edition.

  • The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.1 x86_64 With nginx [ISPConfig 3]

    centos VMWare Image Download Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , , , Comments: 2

    The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.1 x86_64 With nginx [ISPConfig 3] This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.1 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: nginx web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Mailman, and many more. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache; this tutorial covers the setup of a server that uses nginx, not Apache.

  • How To Install RoundCube 0.7 For ISPConfig 3 On Debian Squeeze

    ispconfig Author: SwOsHiETags: , , , , Comments: 11

    How To Install RoundCube 0.7 For ISPConfig 3 On Debian Squeeze This will guide you thru the installation of the latest stable version of RoundCube (currently version 0.7) and get it to work together with ISPConfig 3. This guide should work for most Linux distributions but may differ on some parts.

  • The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.1 x86_64 With Apache2 [ISPConfig 3]

    centos VMWare Image Download Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , , , Comments: 2

    The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.1 x86_64 With Apache2 [ISPConfig 3] This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.1 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, Mailman, and many more. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache; this tutorial covers the setup of a server that uses Apache, not nginx.

  • SQUID Proxy On RHEL5/CentOS - Everything That You Should Know About [Part 1]

    centos Author: hamedxTags: Comments: 16

    SQUID Proxy On RHEL5/CentOS - Everything That You Should Know About [Part 1] The main feature or duty of a proxy server could be a gateway that receives HTTP requests from clients and forwards the request to the destination and relays the answer back to the requestor. Squid is most popular open-source software that brings this to us. It also has some excellent features for doing something else such as web access controlling, bandwidth controlling, restriction policies, and content caching and filtering. Actually people install SQUID to pursuit 2 goals: first reduce the bandwidth charges by content caching and second for restricting access to particular contents. The following guide explains advantages of using Squid and will show you how to install, configure, control, and maintain the Squid Proxy Server on RHEL5 and CentOS Linux.