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• Server Monitoring With munin And monit

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: monitoring • Comments: 19

  Server Monitoring With munin And monit In this article I will describe how to monitor your server with munin and monit. munin produces nifty little graphics about nearly every aspect of your server (load average, memory usage, CPU usage, MySQL throughput, eth0 traffic, etc.) without much configuration, whereas monit checks the availability of services like Apache, MySQL, Postfix and takes the appropriate action such as a restart if it finds a service is not behaving as expected. The combination of the two gives you full monitoring: graphics that lets you recognize current or upcoming problems (like "We need a bigger server soon, our load average is increasing rapidly."), and a watchdog that ensures the availability of the monitored services.

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• Flash Player 8.5 Linux (Ubuntu Dapper Drake)

  Author: mariuz • Tags: ubuntu • Comments: 31

  Flash Player 8.5 Linux (Ubuntu Dapper Drake) This tutorial shows how to install the Flash player on a Linux system. It was tested on Dapper Drake beta 2 (on x86 - 32 bit machine).

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• How To Test Your Linux-Distro Firewall

  Author: kanenas.net • Tags: security • Comments: 7

  How To Test Your Linux-Distro Firewall Recently, I wrote an article about how to scan your Linux-Distro for Root Kits. Now that the machine is clean. I think, a good thing to do is to test my Firewall. The good news is that we can use the free tool FTester. The bad news is that FTester needs to be configured right... So... Let's get to work !

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• Debian Sarge (3.1) with Ruby on Rails and Apache 2 with FastCGI

  Author: tomw • Tags: debian • Comments: 6

  Debian Sarge (3.1) with Ruby on Rails and Apache 2 with FastCGI This HowTo will step you through installing Debian (Sarge) with Ruby on Rails and Apache 2 with FastCGI managed with ISPConfig.This HowTo is based mainly on The Perfect Setup -- Debian Sarge (3.1) by Falko -- consult that HowTo for basic Debian Network Install Setup.

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• How to scan your Linux-Distro for Root Kits

  Author: kanenas.net • Tags: security • Comments: 12

  How to scan your Linux-Distro for Root Kits Do you suspect that you have a compromised system ? Check now for root kits that the intruder may have installed !!! So... What in the hell is a root kit ??? A root kit is a collection of programs that intruders often install after they have compromised the root account of a system. These programs will help the intruders clean up their tracks, as well as provide access back into the system. Root kits will sometimes leave processes running so that the intruder can come back easily and without the system administrator's knowledge !

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• How To Save Traffic With Apache2's mod_deflate

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache • Comments: 11

  How To Save Traffic With Apache2's mod_deflate In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure mod_deflate on an Apache2 web server. mod_deflate allows Apache2 to compress files and deliver them to clients (e.g. browsers) that can handle compressed content which most modern browsers do. With mod_deflate, you can compress HTML, text or XML files to approx. 20 - 30% of their original sizes, thus saving you server traffic and making your modem users happier.

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• Manage Apache Download Speed And Traffic Limits With mod_cband

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache • Comments: 16

  Manage Apache Download Speed And Traffic Limits With mod_cband In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure mod_cband on an Apache2 web server. mod_cband is an Apache 2 module which provides bandwidth quota and throttling. It solves the problem of limiting users' and virtualhosts' bandwidth usage. The current version can set virtualhosts' and users' bandwidth quotas, maximal download speed, requests-per-second speed and the maximal number of simultanous IP connections.

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• Creating A Safe Directory With PAM And EncFS

  Author: stefbon • Tags: security • Comments: 5

  Creating A Safe Directory With PAM And EncFS This HowTo is about creating a user-session-safe directory which offers security on- and offline. This is done with PAM, a module named pam_script and EncFS ("Encrypted Filesystem"). This safe directory is used to store credentials and other sensitive information during a session. When a usersession is ended, in the worst case an encrypted directory remains on the harddrive. In the best case everything is removed. This construction is only meant to store information during a session, not for documents or any other valid information.

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• Setting Up Proftpd With A Postgresql Backend For Auth And Logging

  Author: EvanCarroll • Tags: ftp • Comments: 1

  Setting Up Proftpd With A Postgresql Backend For Auth And Logging This tutorial will get you up and running proftpd pretty fast, and having it utilize a database, if that database has triggers, the possibilities of this configuration are almost endless.

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• How To Set Up suPHP With PHP4 And PHP5

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, php • Comments: 7

  How To Set Up suPHP With PHP4 And PHP5 This tutorial shows how to install and use suPHP with PHP4 and PHP5. suPHP is a tool for executing PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user. With the help of suPHP you can also have PHP4 and PHP5 installed at the same time which I will describe at the end of this article. suPHP integrates into Apache2 as a module. At the time of this writing it does work with Apache2 prior to version 2.2. Version 2.2 is not supported yet.

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