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Securing the connection between MySQL and MySQL Administrator using an SSH tunnel
Author: Craig • Tags: mysql, security • Comments: 8Securing the connection between MySQL and MySQL Administrator using an SSH tunnelThis is a description of how to set up a secure tunnel between your MySQL Server and a locally running MySQL Administrator using Putty. By creating a secure tunnel to your MySQL server using Putty, you can grant localhost access to powerful applications like MySQL Administrator while at the same time, make your server appear as if it isn't even there. In effect, make your MySQL server disappear from the outside world.
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Installing Popular Applications On Your Ubuntu Desktop With Automatix2
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 0Installing Popular Applications On Your Ubuntu Desktop With Automatix2 Although Ubuntu comes with lots of applications that can be installed on your desktop, there are still some applications that are available only from third-party repositories. Finding all these repositories and installing these applications manually is very time-consuming, but fortunately some people have created a script called Automatix2 (which is the successor to Automatix) which automates the task for you. It comes with a graphical interface so that you can run it from your desktop, and this tutorial describes how you do it.
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Creating DjVu Documents Linux HOWTO
Author: volodya • Tags: linux • Comments: 3Creating DjVu Documents Linux HOWTO This document explains some of the uses of djvulibre implementation of DjVu for creating quality DjVu documents in linux. DjVu format features bitmap document compression and hypertext structure. It is used by numerous web sites all around the world for storing and distributing digital documents including scanned documents and high-resolution pictures. One of the advantages of DjVu files is that they are notably small, often smaller than PDF or JPEG files with the same content. This makes DjVu a helpful tool for digitizing books and journals, especially scientific ones.
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Autoresponders to accompany Virtual Users and Domains with Postfix, Courier and MySQL
Author: todgerme • Tags: postfix • Comments: 5Autoresponders to accompany Virtual Users and Domains with Postfix, Courier and MySQL This guide focuses on making Yaa! (Yet Another Autoresponder!) work with Debian Sarge and the virtual users on Postfix tutorial (see http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual_postfix_mysql_quota_courier). The first thing to understand about the guide is that it uses the Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) and as a result any of the auto responders that you could use by passing them to a pipe via a .forward file simply won't work as the VDA does not support .forward expansions. This limitation can be overcome via Procmail/Maildrop delivery but that is messy and slower especially for mail systems that are heavily used. The simple answer is Yaa!
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Setting Up A PXE Install Server For Multiple Linux Distributions With Ubuntu Edgy Eft
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ubuntu •
Comments: 15 Setting Up A PXE Install Server For Multiple Linux Distributions With Ubuntu Edgy Eft This tutorial shows how to set up a PXE (short for preboot execution environment) install server with Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft). A PXE install server allows your client computers to boot and install a Linux distribution over the network, without the need of burning Linux iso images onto a CD/DVD, boot floppy images, etc. This is handy if your client computers don't have CD or floppy drives, or if you want to set up multiple computers at the same time (e.g. in a large enterprise), or simply because you want to save the money for the CDs/DVDs. In this article I show how to configure a PXE server that allows you to boot multiple distributions: Ubuntu Edgy/Dapper, Debian Etch/Sarge, Fedora Core 6, CentOS 4.4, OpenSuSE 10.2, and Mandriva 2007.
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Postfix with dkfilter (DomainKeys Implementation)
Author: sohaileo • Tags: antivirus, postfix • Comments: 5Postfix with dkfilter (DomainKeys Implementation) DomainKeys is an anti-spam software application in development at Yahoo that uses a form of public key cryptography to authenticate the sender's domain. dkfilter is an SMTP-proxy designed for Postfix. It implements DomainKeys message signing and verification. It comprises two separate filters, an "outbound" filter for signing outgoing email on port 587, and an "inbound" filter for verifying signatures of incoming email on port 25. This document is to describe step by step how to install dkfilter for postfix to deploy domainkeys signing and verification.
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Installing A LAMP System With Fedora Core 6
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora •
Comments: 10 Installing A LAMP System With Fedora Core 6 This is a detailed description about how to set up a Fedora Core 6 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written for the 32-bit version of Fedora Core 6, but should apply to the 64-bit version with very little modifications as well.
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Enhance Your Mail Server With ASSP (Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy)
Author: ovis • Tags: antivirus, postfix • Comments: 7Enhance Your Mail Server With ASSP (Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy) ASSP stands for Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy. The ASSP server project is an Open Source platform-independent transparent SMTP proxy server that leverages numerous methodologies and technologies to both rigidly and adaptively identify spam. In short ASSP is the most kickass solution that is both free and works great. It reduced spam to an absurd minimum for me.
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How To Compile A Kernel - The CentOS Way
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: kernel, centos • Comments: 11How To Compile A Kernel - The CentOS Way Each distribution has some specific tools to build a custom kernel from the sources. This article is about compiling a kernel on CentOS systems. It describes how to build a custom kernel using the latest unmodified kernel sources from www.kernel.org (vanilla kernel) so that you are independent from the kernels supplied by your distribution. It also shows how to patch the kernel sources if you need features that are not in there.
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How To Compile A Kernel - The Mandriva Way
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: kernel, mandriva • Comments: 2How To Compile A Kernel - The Mandriva Way Each distribution has some specific tools to build a custom kernel from the sources. This article is about compiling a kernel on Mandriva systems. It describes how to build a custom kernel using the latest unmodified kernel sources from www.kernel.org (vanilla kernel) so that you are independent from the kernels supplied by your distribution. It also shows how to patch the kernel sources if you need features that are not in there.
