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• Installing And Using OpenVZ On Fedora 14

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora, openvz, virtualization • Comments: 0

  Installing And Using OpenVZ On Fedora 14 In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a Fedora 14 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license.

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• How To Install Sphinx On Ubuntu 10.10

  Author: mstfleri • Tags: ubuntu • Comments: 4

  How To Install Sphinx On Ubuntu 10.10 Sphinx is a full-text search engine, publicly distributed under GPL version 2. Commercial licensing (eg. for embedded use) is available upon request. You can use Sphinx for creating big data indexes. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC.

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• Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Fedora 14

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora, nginx, web server • Comments: 1

  Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Fedora 14 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 a Fedora 14 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.

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• Helping The Random Number Generator To Gain Enough Entropy With rng-tools (Debian Lenny)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian • Comments: 24

  Helping The Random Number Generator To Gain Enough Entropy With rng-tools (Debian Lenny) You might know this situation: you want to generate a GPG or SSL key, and during that operation, your system tells you that no more random bytes are available and that it needs to collect more entropy, and you are stuck. This short guide tells you how to solve this problem with the package rng-tools on Debian Lenny.

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• Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 14

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora, lighttpd • Comments: 2

  Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 14 Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Fedora 14 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

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• Changing From SquirrelMail To Atmail Open With ISPConfig 3

  Author: sellotape • Tags: email, ispconfig, linux • Comments: 5

  Changing From SquirrelMail To Atmail Open With ISPConfig 3 Atmail Open is an open source webmail client which is available free of charge and is a great alternative to Squirrelmail. This tutorial shows how to use it with ISPConfig 3 (instead of SquirrelMail).

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• Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 14 GNOME Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, fedora • Comments: 1

  Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 14 GNOME Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on a Fedora 14 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop. I will use the free nouveau driver in this tutorial instead of the proprietary NVIDIA driver. nouveau is an accelerated Open Source driver for NVIDIA cards that comes with experimental 3D support on Fedora 14 - on my test system 3D support was working without any problems.

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• Installing Honeyd 1.5c And Arpd 0.2 Under CentOS 5 (With gcc 4.x)

  Author: poustchi • Tags: centos, security • Comments: 0

  Installing Honeyd 1.5c And Arpd 0.2 Under CentOS 5 (With gcc 4.x) This tutorial shows how you can install your honeypot by using Honeyd (Virtual Honeypot). Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network. The hosts can be configured to run arbitrary services, and their personality can be adapted so that they appear to be running certain operating systems.

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• Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.10

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: cherokee, ubuntu, web server • Comments: 0

  Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.10 Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication, on the fly encoding, load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and much more. This tutorial shows how you can install Cherokee on an Ubuntu 10.10 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

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• Managing A Single Firewall Policy For Multiple Servers Using Firewall Builder

  Author: mikehorn • Tags: security • Comments: 0

  Managing A Single Firewall Policy For Multiple Servers Using Firewall Builder In this tutorial we are going to cover how to use Firewall Builder clusters to manage a single firewall policy that gets deployed on multiple servers. An example of where you could use this would be managing a shared firewall policy for a collection of web servers that are all providing the same service and should have the same rules.

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