Linux Tutorials on the topic “linux”

• Recover Deleted Files With Scalpel

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux • Comments: 15

  Recover Deleted Files With Scalpel Scalpel is a fast file carver that reads a database of header and footer definitions and extracts matching files from a set of image files or raw device files. Scalpel is filesystem-independent and will carve files from FATx, NTFS, ext2/3, or raw partitions. It is useful for both digital forensics investigation and file recovery. This short article shows how you can use Scalpel to recover deleted files.

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• Recover Deleted Files With foremost

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux • Comments: 8

  Recover Deleted Files With foremost foremost is a forensics application to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures. Foremost can work on image files, such as those generated by dd, Safeback, Encase, etc, or directly on a drive. This short article shows how you can use foremost to recover deleted files.

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• Groupware Server With Group-Office, Postfix, Dovecot And SpamAssassin On Debian Lenny (5.0)

  Author: mschering • Tags: antivirus, debian, email, linux, postfix • Comments: 4

  Groupware Server With Group-Office, Postfix, Dovecot And SpamAssassin On Debian Lenny (5.0) In this howto I will explain how you can set up a groupware server using the Debian Linux operating system, Group-Office for managing the mailboxes and groupware functions like e-mail, shared calendars, file sharing etc., Postfix with virtual accounts in MySQL, Dovecot IMAP, SpamAssassin spam filter, and a vacation perl script that will handle out-of-office replies.

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• Simple Bash Script To Monitor Your Webserver Remotely On Different Ports

  Author: marchost • Tags: linux, monitoring, programming • Comments: 2

  Simple Bash Script To Monitor Your Webserver Remotely On Different Ports Simple bash script to monitor a webserver on different ports (here smtp, dns, http & https but it can be customized); I'm sure there are over 100 available programs doing this but I wanted something with small memory usage. Also, I only wanted to be notified once, notifications are received by SMS on my cell. With the software I was using before, I was getting notified every minute until I could reach a computer and fix the problem or stop monitoring which was quite annoying.

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• How To Add Two-Factor Authentication To phpBB

  Author: nowen • Tags: apache, linux, mysql, php, security • Comments: 0

  How To Add Two-Factor Authentication To phpBB This document describes how to add WiKID two-factor authentication to phpBB through Apache using mod_auth_xradius. Given the recent attack against phpBB and the exposure of it's users' passwords, we thought two-factor authentication might be timely.

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• IP Address Geolocation From MySQL

  Author: marchost • Tags: linux, mysql • Comments: 9

  IP Address Geolocation From MySQL In this short tutorial I will use a local MySQL database to do IP addresses geolocation.

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• pkgwatch -- A Package Management Wrapper

  Author: tony2 • Tags: linux • Comments: 11

  pkgwatch -- A Package Management Wrapper In the past I was trying many different linux distros. Each has its own package management systems: debian has apt, mandrake has urpmi, yellowdog has an apt front-end for rpm, suse has yast... While they all are quite similar and not difficult to use, I found that I often made mistakes because I often forgot which system I was using and the exact commands on that system. Another issue is that I wish I could keep track how I installed/removed those packages. So I wrote a simple wrapper for various package management systems.

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• Creating USB Startup Disks From Various Linux Distributions With UNetbootin

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux • Comments: 3

  Creating USB Startup Disks From Various Linux Distributions With UNetbootin This guide shows how you can create USB startup disks (on your USB flash drive) from various Linux distributions with UNetbootin. This is useful if you want to install a Linux distribution on a computer that has no CD/DVD drive.

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• How to configure Squid for two-factor authentication from WiKID

  Author: nowen • Tags: apache, linux, security • Comments: 0

  How to configure Squid for two-factor authentication from WiKID In this guide we will show how Squid can be configured to support two-factor authentication from a WiKID server, allowing users to be centrally authenticated, but their requests still distributed for efficiency.

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• Cloning Linux Systems With CloneZilla Server Edition (CloneZilla SE)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux • Comments: 6

  Cloning Linux Systems With CloneZilla Server Edition (CloneZilla SE) This tutorial shows how you can clone Linux systems with CloneZilla SE. This is useful for copying one Linux installation to multiple computers without losing much time, e.g. in a classroom, or also for creating an image-based backup of a system. I will install CloneZilla SE on a Debian Etch server in this tutorial. The systems that you want to clone can use whatever Linux distribution you prefer.

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