Linux System Administration Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Product Description The job of Linux systems administrator is interrupt-driven and requires constant learning in byte-wise chunks. This book gives solutions to modern problems, even some you might not have heard of, such as scripting LDAP, making Mac clients play nice with Linux servers, and backup, security, and recovery scripts. Author Juliet Kemp takes a broad approach to scripting using Perl and bash, and all scripts work on Debian or Red Hat lineage distributions. Plus she dispenses wisdom about time management, dealing with desperate colleagues, and how to avoid reinventing the wheel!

How to Cheat at Securing Linux

Product Description Are you one of the millions of SysAdmins running a Linux server who can’t find a current book on Linux security? Well..this is the book for you. How to Cheat at Securing Linux Servers is designed to help you deploy a Linux system on the Internet in a variety of security roles. This book provides practical instructions and pointers concerning the open source security tools that we use every day. This book shows you how to use your Linux skills to provide the most important security services such as encryption, authentication, access control, and logging. While writing the book, the authors had the following three-part structure in mind: locking down the network, securing data passing across the network, and protecting the network perimeter with firewalls, DMZs, and VPNs.

LINUX FIREWALLS Attack Detection and Response with iptables, psad, and...

Linux Firewalls was made possible with the help of a host of folks at every step along the way. I’d particularly like to thank the people at No Starch Press for the efforts they put forth. William Pollock, Bonnie Granat, Megan Dunchak, and Christina Samuell all contributed many hours of expert editing, and the book is higher quality as a result. To Pablo Neira Ayuso, thanks for helping to make Netfilter and iptables what they are today, and for handling the technical edit of the material in this book. Ron Gula, CTO of Tenable Network Security, and Raffael Marty, chief security strategist of Splunk, both contributed constructive criticism, and they were kind enough to endorse the book before it was published. I also wish to thank Richard Bejtlich, founder of TaoSecurity, for writing an excellent foreword. Richard, your books are an...

How to Installing phpMyAdmin 3.2

Installation Get the latest version of phpMyAdmin from phpMyAdmin.net. The files will compressed – so you will have to extract it. Create a folder called ‘phpMyAdmin’ in the document root of your server and extract the PHP scripts into it. That’s it – the installing part is over. The latest version will automatically configure itself to run with these settings…Database Host : localhost Username : root Password : (Empty)Configuration If you wish to configure your phpMyAdmin using more advanced options, open the folder you installed phpMyAdmin to(<Document Root/phpMyAdmin/>) and create a folder called ‘config’. Make sure it has write permission. You can give it write permission with the following command(assuming that your are on a linux system)… chmod 666 config

Remote Desktop from Windows to Linux

To connect to remote linux from windows desktop:Enable Remote Desktop on Linux Connectting from Windows by VNC Viewer  Read more at: http://webhostingneeds.com/Connecting_to_linux_desktop_from_windows

Movie Editor for Linux

Here are some of free open source video editors for Linux:http://www.openmovieeditor.org http://www.kdenlive.org http://www.pitivi.org http://avidemux.berlios.de

Check, Repair and Optimize ALL Databases with 1 command!

Most webmasters can have the problem that some tables aren’t optimized or have overhead. This will cauze your server/VPS to work slower than usual since it can’t use all it’s resources. If you do this command once a week then you should be fine and your databases would stay optimized all the time. Follow the steps below:

Linux Command

This is a linux command line reference for common operations. Examples marked with • are valid/safe to paste without modification into a terminal, so you may want to keep a terminal window open while reading this so you can cut & paste. All these commands have been tested both on Fedora and Ubuntu.

How to Setup Virtual Host in Apache (Linux)

After install Apache you go to directory /etc/httpd/conf and open file httpd.conf. Go to the very bottom of your httpd.conf file in your text editor. You should see an example of a virtual host there. Each line of that example will begin with an octothorpe (#). The octothorpe character marks the line as a comment, so the example is not executed. Add the following lines below that example:

How to Open Port On Centos/Fedora/Redhat

By default iptables firewall stores its configuration at /etc/sysconfig/iptables file. You need to edit this file and add rules to open port number. This file only avilable under:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 / 4 / 5 and above Old Red hat Linux version CentOS 4 and above Fedora Linux

How to: mount or unmount a drive in linux

How To Mount A Drive In Linux Initially you wanna check the hard drives on your system #fdisk -l so now you now whats being seen by the system #mount /dev/partitionId /some/mounting/point for example #mount /dev/sdb /backup The mounting point path must already be created with proper permissions. So a more likely flow of commands would be below: #mkdir /some/mounting/point #chmod 777 /some/mounting/point #mount /dev/partitionId /some/mounting/point for example: #mkdir /backup #chmod 777 /backup #mount /dev/sdb /backup Now you just need to add the addon hard drive into fstab to be booted on startup as well #nano /etc/fstab