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• Creating MySQL Backups With AutoMySQLBackup

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: mysql, backup • Comments: 9

  Creating MySQL Backups With AutoMySQLBackup AutoMySQLBackup is a shell script that lets you take daily, weekly and monthly backups of your MySQL databases using mysqldump. It can back up multiple databases, compress the backups, back up remote databases, and email the logs.

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• How To Upgrade Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) To 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) (Desktop & Server)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 20

  How To Upgrade Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) To 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) (Desktop & Server) Today the new Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) has been released. This guide shows how you can upgrade your Ubuntu 8.04 desktop and server installations to Ubuntu 8.10.

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• How To Install Intel Pro Wireless 3945 On CentOS Linux

  Author: sinanceylan • Tags: centos • Comments: 3

  How To Install Intel Pro Wireless 3945 On CentOS Linux In this tutorial, I will guide you through the necessary steps to install ipw3945 wireless adapter on a CentOS / RHEL based distribution.It is written for CentOS 5.2. However, it might work on other CentOS 5.x based distributions as well.

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• Ubuntu: Using apt-p2p For Faster Upgrades From Hardy To Intrepid

  Author: Stephan Jau • Tags: ubuntu • Comments: 6

  Ubuntu: Using apt-p2p For Faster Upgrades From Hardy To Intrepid ernest has today published on TorrentFreak a great howto on how to lessen the burden of the Canonical Servers for the upgrade to the new stable release of Ubuntu 8.10 - Intrepid Ibex. With his permission I publish this howto here also.

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• CentOS Directory Server On CentOS 5.2

  Author: awan • Tags: centos • Comments: 12

  CentOS Directory Server On CentOS 5.2 The enterprise-class Open Source LDAP server for Linux. It is hardened by real-world use, is full-featured, supports multi-master replication, and already handles many of the largest LDAP deployments in the world. The Centos Directory Server (based on Fedora Directory Server) can be downloaded for free and set up in less than half an hour.

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• Automatic And Up-To-Date Fedora 9 Installations With Kickstart And Novi

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

  Automatic And Up-To-Date Fedora 9 Installations With Kickstart And Novi Kickstart allows you to do automatic Fedora/RedHat/CentOS installations (i.e., you do not have to sit in front of the computer and answer the questions of the installer). This is useful and time-saving if you have to deploy tens or hundreds of similar systems (e.g. workstations). Kickstart reads the installation settings from a Kickstart configuration file. The problem with Kickstart is that it usually uses the distribution's packages from the time the distribution was released, i.e., it does not consider updates which means you would have to update each system manually after the Kickstart installation. This guide explains how you can do up-to-date Kickstart installations with the help of a tool called novi.

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• Installing ISP-fw (Firewall) On Linux

  Author: htb • Tags: debian, security • Comments: 2

  Installing ISP-fw (Firewall) On Linux ISP-fW is a firewall script that provides port forwarding, packet filtering, stateful packet inspection, port redirection, masquerading, SNAT/ DNAT, TOS, and never the last it generates htb rules for bandwidth management. With ISP-fw, you can turn a PC into a gateway with shaping capabilities.

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• Appnr - Synaptic For Your Browser (Ubuntu)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 6

  Appnr - Synaptic For Your Browser (Ubuntu) Appnr is a web-based directory for Ubuntu packages (including the official repositories and third-party packages from Medibuntu, Google, and the Canonical Partner repository). You can use it to browse and install packages directly from your browser. It's like Synaptic for your browser.

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• Preventing MySQL Injection Attacks With GreenSQL On Debian Etch

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, mysql, security • Comments: 1

  Preventing MySQL Injection Attacks With GreenSQL On Debian Etch GreenSQL (or greensql-fw) is a firewall for MySQL databases that filters SQL injection attacks. It works as a reverse proxy, i.e., it takes the SQL queries, checks them, passes them on to the MySQL database and delivers back the result from the MySQL database. It comes with a web interface (called greensql-console) so that you can manage GreenSQL through a web browser. This guide shows how you can install GreenSQL and its web interface on a Debian Etch server.

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• Mailscanner/Exim Gateway With Communigate PRO Guide

  Author: topdog • Tags: antivirus, centos • Comments: 0

  Mailscanner/Exim Gateway With Communigate PRO Guide In this tutorial we will be installing and setting up Mailscanner as a mail firewall in front of a Communigate pro cluster. This tutorial has been written for the CENTOS 5.x Linux distro but am sure it can be used for any other Linux based system with little modifications. The system will run with SELinux in enforcing mode.

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