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Easier Reinstalls
Author: ardchoille42 • Tags: linux • Comments: 3Easier Reinstalls I typically reinstall my computer operating system every six months. The reasons for this are that it cleans out the system and reinstalls require me to be in front of the computer for a total of about ten minutes so it's painless. Notice I said "in front of the computer", the system does all of the work for me with some specially crafted bash scripts.
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Installation & Configuration Of Intrusion Detection With Snort, ACIDBASE, MySQL, And Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.04 Using SPM
Author: redgreg68 • Tags: security, ubuntu • Comments: 10Installation & Configuration Of Intrusion Detection With Snort, ACIDBASE, MySQL, And Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.04 Using SPM This tutorial describes how to install and configure Snort intrusion detection system (IDS), ACIDBASE (Basic Analysis and Security Engine), MySQL, and Apache2 on Ubuntu 9.04 using packages from Ubuntu’s Synaptic Package Manager. Snort will assist you in monitoring your network and alert you about possible threats. Snort will output its log files to a MySQL database which ACIDBASE will use to display in a graphical interface in web browser.
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How To Force virt-manager To Use kqemu On Fedora 10
Author: athmane •
Tags: fedora, virtualization •
Comments: 0 How To Force virt-manager To Use kqemu On Fedora 10 When you use virt-manager to create and manage virtual machines using QEMU as hypervisor you may notice a poor performance on a no virtualization capable processor; this is because by default libvirt (an opensource virtualization API for Xen, KVM, Qemu) ignores the kqemu module (qemu acceleration kernel module). This mini-howto tries to workaround this problem.
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Set Up A Simple High-Availability Web Server For A Small Company Using Debian Lenny
Author: rax •
Tags: debian •
Comments: 1 Set Up A Simple High-Availability Web Server For A Small Company Using Debian Lenny This tutorial was written for the Debian Lenny distribution and supposes that the user has knowledge about what load balancing is and some basic skills of Linux, our two load balancers consist out of 2 machines that monitor each other [heartbeat], if the master stops responding the secondary one [Backup] will take the master role [Backup -> Master].
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Daily Journal With Panel Launcher
Author: ardchoille42 • Tags: ubuntu • Comments: 1Daily Journal With Panel Launcher I keep a daily journal because my memory is not what it used to be. I have friends who keep daily journals just because they like to write. I use gedit for most text-related work and recently learned how to make a special panel launcher for my journal. I keep my daily journal in a folder called "office" but the month and year change, so my journal for this month is named 200908.journal or "yyyymm.journal". Now, making a panel launcher to open a file with gedit is no big deal but I found that using "gedit /home/user/office/*.journal" in the Command portion of the launcher doesn't work. I think this is due to the wildcard, "*", and I will show you how to overcome this problem. Using the month and year in the panel launcher requires that you edit the launcher every month and I didn't want to have to do that so I came up with a way to open a file from a panel launcher regardless of the file name.
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How To Install And Configure Advanced Policy Firewall (APF) On CentOS 5.3
Author: Leszek •
Tags: security, centos •
Comments: 5 How To Install And Configure Advanced Policy Firewall (APF) On CentOS 5.3 This tutorial explains how you can install and configure APF - an interface to IPTables which lets you easily configure a full featured firewall to secure servers and workstations connected to a network. This guide describes an example installation on a server with cPanel but it's only a matter of port numbers which must be open for everything to work. APF can be used on any system.
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Install PHP 5.3.0/Lighttpd On Debian (Lenny) With Imap, MySQL, Sqlite3 And ImageMagick Support
Author: zabouth •
Tags: debian, lighttpd, php •
Comments: 7 Install PHP 5.3.0/Lighttpd On Debian (Lenny) With Imap, MySQL, Sqlite3 And ImageMagick Support This tutorial covers the setup of PHP 5.3.0/Lighttpd on Debian (lenny) with imap, mysql, mysqli, sqlite3, ImageMagick and mycrypt support.
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Alfresco Community Installer For Ubuntu 9.04
Author: linuxunixmadrid • Tags: ubuntu • Comments: 1Alfresco Community Installer For Ubuntu 9.04 This script automates the setting up of Alfresco Community on Ubuntu Server 9.0.4 & Ubuntu Desktop 9.0.4. Alfresco is an enterprise content management system for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems.
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Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 5
Author: vkfwb • Tags: security • Comments: 1Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 5 This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article continues with examples of Access Policy rules and demonstrates how branching rules can be built.
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Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 11
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora, ftp •
Comments: 0 Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 11 This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.
