Monitor what’s being done on your Linux systems

May 29

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Intrusions can take place from both authorized (insiders) and unauthorized (outsiders) users. My personal experience shows that unhappy user can damage the system, especially when they have a shell access. Some users are little smart and removes history file (such as ~/.bash_history) but you can monitor all user executed commands. More

Mount Remote Directories Securely with SSH : Ubuntu

May 27

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t me tell you, I’m a busy man. I’m always on the go and my trusty laptop is the only thing to keep me company much of the time. Despite being here, there and everywhere I still need access to my files and folders at home. But how can I access my files, securely, from anywhere on the planet? It is simple with SSH. More

Poedit – Useful tool for multilingual sites

May 25

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Poedit is cross-platform gettext catalogs (.po files) editor. It is built with wxWidgets toolkit and can run on any platform supported by it (although it was only tested on Unix with GTK+ and Windows). It aims to provide more convenient approach to editing catalogs than launching vi and editing the file by hand.

Features

Here is a brief features list:

  • Unlike other catalogs editors, Poedit shows data in very compact way. Entries are aranged in a list, so that you can easily navigate large catalogs and immediately get an idea about how big part of the catalog is already translated, what needs translating and which parts are only translated in a “fuzzy” way.
  • Runs on Unix and Windows systems.
  • Plural forms support. [1.3.0] More

Connectivity & Accessibility among Windows, Linux & Mac

May 23

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Connect from Host MAC to Virtual Guest Windows using SSH & HTTP

Background Information.
SSH runs on port 22
HTTP runs on port 80

SSH command can be used many useful keywords such as
-l is for specificing login
-v is to run the command in debug mode. Its always nice to know what is happening behind the scene

Example comand.
>ssh -v -l LoginNameOfGuestMachine IPofGuestMachine

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How to Install and configure a Hosting Linux Suse Server 11.1

May 22

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This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 11.1 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written for the 32-bit version of OpenSUSE 11.1, but should apply to the 64-bit version with very little modifications as well.

I will use the following software:
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ISPconfig – a Opensource Hosting server control panel

May 21

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SPConfig is an open source hosting control panel for Linux. ISPConfig is licensed under BSD license.

Managed Services
Httpd (virtual hosts, domain and IP based)
FTP
Bind (A, CNAME, MX and SPF Records)
POP3 Auto-Responder
MySQL client-databases
Webalizer statistics
Harddisk quota
Mail-Quota
Traffic limits
IP-addresses
SSL
SSI
Shell-access
Mailscanner (Antivirus)
Firewall

Visit for download and documentation http://www.ispconfig.org/

How to install & configure it.

Visit Installation manual http://www.ispconfig.org/manual_installation.htm

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