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Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Fedora 12
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora, powerdns •
Comments: 0 Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Fedora 12 This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a Fedora 12 system. PowerDNS is a high-performance, authoritative-only nameserver - in the setup described here it will read the DNS records from a MySQL database (similar to MyDNS), although other backends such as PostgreSQL are supported as well. Poweradmin is a web-based control panel for PowerDNS.
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Virtualization With KVM On A Fedora 13 Server
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora, kvm, virtualization •
Comments: 1 Virtualization With KVM On A Fedora 13 Server This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a Fedora 13 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V.
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How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On CentOS 5.4
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, ftp, security •
Comments: 0 How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On CentOS 5.4 This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on a CentOS 5.4 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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Postfix Monitoring With Mailgraph And pflogsumm On Debian Lenny
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, monitoring, postfix •
Comments: 13 Postfix Monitoring With Mailgraph And pflogsumm On Debian Lenny This article describes how you can monitor your Postfix mailserver with the tools Mailgraph and pflogsumm. Mailgraph creates daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly graphs of sent, received, bounced, and rejected emails and also of spam and viruses, if SpamAssassin and ClamAV are integrated into Postfix (e.g. using amavisd-new). These graphs can be accessed with a browser, whereas pflogsumm ("Postfix Log Entry Summarizer") can be used to send reports of Postfix activity per email.
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Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.04
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: cherokee, ubuntu, web server •
Comments: 2 Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.04 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 10.04 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.
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Using eBox As A Gateway: Firewall, Traffic Shaping, HTTP Proxy And More
Author: jsalamero • Tags: linux • Comments: 4Using eBox As A Gateway: Firewall, Traffic Shaping, HTTP Proxy And More eBox Platform is the Linux small business server that allows you to manage all your network services like firewall, DHCP, DNS, VPN, proxy, IDS, mail, file and printer sharing, VoIP, IM and much more. These functionalities are tightly integrated, automating most tasks, avoiding mistakes and saving time for system administrators. This article will show you step by step how to use eBox as a Gateway, featuring network configuration, load balancing between two Internet connections with WAN failover and multigateway rules for policy routing, traffic shaping, DHCP and DNS cache for the LAN network and HTTP proxy with different content filtering policies and antivirus.
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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 10.04)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: antivirus, postfix, ubuntu •
Comments: 33 This document describes how to install a mail server based on Postfix 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 (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses.
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How To Install Alfresco Community 3.3 On Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
Author: inflate •
Tags: ubuntu, other •
Comments: 22 How To Install Alfresco Community 3.3 On Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) This guide explains how to install Alfresco Community 3.3 on Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). Alfresco is the Open Source Alternative for Enterprise Content Management (ECM), providing Document Management, Collaboration, Records Management, Knowledge Management, Web Content Management and Imaging.
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Fight Image Spam With FuzzyOCR And SpamAssassin On Fedora 12
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: antivirus, fedora, security •
Comments: 0 Fight Image Spam With FuzzyOCR And SpamAssassin On Fedora 12 This tutorial describes how to scan emails for image spam with FuzzyOCR on a Fedora 12 server. FuzzyOCR is a plugin for SpamAssassin which is aimed at unsolicited bulk mail containing images as the main content carrier. Using different methods, it analyzes the content and properties of images to distinguish between normal mails (ham) and spam mails. FuzzyOCR tries to keep the system load low by scanning only mails that have not already been categorized as spam by SpamAssassin, thus avoiding unnecessary work.
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How To Set Up An AAA Server With CIITIX-WiFi
Author: babarsaleem • Tags: linux • Comments: 7How To Set Up An AAA Server With CIITIX-WiFi CIITIX-WiFi is a turnkey solution to your WiFi hotspot needs. Built onto the rock solid stable debian linux, setting up a secure (TTLS) WiFi hotspot is just a minute away. This guide shows how to set up an AAA server (authentication, authorization and accounting) with CIITIX-WiFi.
