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Exim Authenticated Smarthost

July 4th, 2008 in linux

Exim Authenticated Smarthost

Today's ISP environment requires authenticated SMTP to be able to send emails. As a policy, authenticated SMTP helps cut down on folks sending SPAM and allows the ISP to track which account is sending what type of email content for further demographic study. While authenticated SMTP is good for the ISP, it is not a configuration supported out of the box by most Linux distributions. This means that all those system emails and log reports emailed by root never make it anywhere anymore.

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Apache2: Logging To A MySQL Database With mod_log_sql (Debian Etch)

July 3rd, 2008 in linux

Apache2: Logging To A MySQL Database With mod_log_sql (Debian Etch)

This guide shows how you can write the Apache2 access log to a MySQL database instead of a file. To achieve this, I use the Apache2 module mod_log_sql. I'm using a Debian Etch server in this tutorial.

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@Mail Webmail System On Your ISPConfig Server Within 10 Easy Steps

July 3rd, 2008 in linux

@Mail Webmail System On Your ISPConfig Server Within 10 Easy Steps

This guide explains how to set up the Open Source version of Atmail (Atmail Open) on your ISPConfig server.

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How To Set Up Shorewall (Shoreline) 4.0 Firewall On CentOS 5.1

July 2nd, 2008 in linux

How To Set Up Shorewall (Shoreline) 4.0 Firewall On CentOS 5.1

This tutorial will walk you through setting up Shorewall (Shoreline) 4.0 firewall on CentOS 5.1 , this can easily be adapted to any other Linux distribution out there.

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Search engines Yahoo and Google learn to crawl Flash sites

July 2nd, 2008 in linux
Statistics show that Adobe's Flash is installed in a whooping 98% of computers connected to the internet. Using Flash, a web developer is able to give his imagination a free reign and build gorgeous multimedia intensive albeit equally functional sites.

Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

July 1st, 2008 in linux

Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

This document describes how to install a Proftpd 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 with this setup.

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How To Block Cookies From Unwanted Websites With SafeSquid Proxy Server

July 1st, 2008 in linux

How To Block Cookies From Unwanted Websites With SafeSquid Proxy Server

Basically, cookies are pieces of information, usually personal preferences, that are stored into a visitors system, when they visit a website. The next time the visitor accesses the same website, the cookie is transferred from the visitors system to the website, and his preferred content is displayed to him. Cookies are also used to allow a visitor to log into his personal account on a website. Although, not always dangerous, many advertising and marketing websites gather personal information, without the users knowledge, and use this information to display especially targeted marketing ads and banners.

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Create Your Own Web Server With BIND And Apache On CentOS 5 (Simplified)

June 30th, 2008 in linux

Create Your Own Web Server With BIND And Apache On CentOS 5 (Simplified)

This tutorial explains how you can run your own web server on CentOS 5 with the help of Apache and the BIND name server.

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How To Install VMware Server (Version 1.0.6) On An Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop

June 29th, 2008 in linux

How To Install VMware Server (Version 1.0.6) On An Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server (version 1.0.6) on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware which saves a lot of money, and you can move virtual machines from one VMware Server to the next one (or to a system that has the VMware Player which is also free).

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Zimbra Integration With Samba - Ubuntu Based (Similar To AD And Exchange)

June 27th, 2008 in linux

Zimbra Integration With Samba - Ubuntu Based (Similar To AD And Exchange)

This tutorial shows how to configure Zimbra Collaboration Server (ZCS) and Samba to act as a primary domain controller (PDC) that uses LDAP as a centralized database for authenticating users on Linux and Windows desktops.

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