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• Running Apache2 With PHP5 And PHP4 At The Same Time

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, php • Comments: 6

  Running Apache2 With PHP5 And PHP4 At The Same Time This tutorial shows how to install and configure Apache2 with PHP5 and PHP4 enabled at the same time. Because it is not possible to run both PHP5 and PHP4 as Apache modules, we must run one of them as CGI, the other one as Apache module. In this document I will use PHP5 as Apache module and PHP4 as CGI, and I will describe the setup for the Linux distributions Debian Sarge (3.1) and Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger).

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• Securing Your Server With A Host-based Intrusion Detection System

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, monitoring, security • Comments: 5

  Securing Your Server With A Host-based Intrusion Detection System This article shows how to install and run OSSEC HIDS, an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System. It performs log analysis, integrity checking, rootkit detection, time-based alerting and active response. It helps you detect attacks, software misuse, policy violations and other forms of inappropriate activities.

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• Easy RSS Syndication with MagpieRSS

  Author: Spudchat • Tags: other • Comments: 4

  Easy RSS Syndication with MagpieRSS MagpieRSS, affectionately known as Magpie, is an RSS and Atom parser for PHP. It allows you to display the newest articles from websites with RSS or Atom feeds on your own site. This is a great way to add new, fresh, and relevant information to your site. It parses RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0, and has some support for RSS 2.0 as well as Atom 0.3.

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• Integration of dbus and KDE: starting and stopping the session part of dbus with KDM.

  Author: stefbon • Tags: other • Comments: 0

  Integration of dbus and KDE: starting and stopping the session part of dbus with KDM Since some time now a lot of applications make use of D-BUS. This is the case with KDE 3.5, the current stable release of KDE. With the upcomming KDE 4, D-BUS is getting more important, replacing DCOP. In this howto I want to describe a way to start and stop the user and session dependent part of dbus.

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• How to Build an Effective Mail Server Defense

  Author: alinap • Tags: antivirus, freebsd, linux, security • Comments: 3

  How to Build an Effective Mail Server Defense When speaking of mail server-related security, one tends to limit the issue to message applied security measures, and even more to Antivirus and Antispam protection. This is however only one stage in the more complex process of securing your server. This article aims at identifying and explaining all security layers, highly important when choosing a certain mail server and consequently when configuring and using it.

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• How To Combat Viruses Using Your Postfix Configuration

  Author: todgerme • Tags: postfix • Comments: 0

  How To Combat Viruses Using Your Postfix Configuration In this guide you will learn how to tweak the HowtoForge mail guide for  Postfix (+Auth SMTP + Quota), http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual_postfix_mysql_quota_courier, setup to give better Virus protection.  Sadly this always comes at a price as you will see later on.....

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• MySQL Replication On The Same Machine

  Author: sheikhsa • Tags: mysql • Comments: 2

  This How To explain the replication in MySQL on the same machine. You have large hits, with database driven site and performance, redundancy, security now comes in mind. DBA is now input by many fingers to seek some good solution to make happy faces. So here comes words like Cluster, Replication, Backup, Fail Over and others. So what these are? We currently discuss Replication in terms of a web based database driven site for large hits.

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• Quota does not work under SuSE 8.2!

  Author: Till Brehm • Tags: ispconfig, linux • Comments: 0

  On a standard SuSE 8.2 installation the quota module is not loaded into the kernel which is why quotaon -avug gives back an error. Load the quota module manually with insmod quota_v1 and insmod quota_v2 To have those modules loaded on every bootup of the system please insert modprobe quota_v1 and modprobe quota_v2 in /etc/init.d/boot.local.

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• How can I get a list of quotas assigned to my users and groups and of the space used by them?

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux • Comments: 0

  repquota -avug shows a list for both users and groups. repquota -au shows a list for users, repquota -ag a list for groups.

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• How do I start the X server in Suse 9.2 when the graphic card is working work in text mode?

  Author: Till Brehm • Tags: linux • Comments: 1

  To start the X server from a text mode session, execute the command: startx

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