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May 9, 2008

Howto Select Fastest Mirror in Debian

by @ 3:29 pm. Filed under Package Mgmt

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If you want to select Fastest Mirror in Debian follow this tutorial and this is very helpful if you want to download and install your debian packages,Updates .netselect-apt automatically creates a sources.list file for using with apt for the specified distribution by downloading the list of Debian mirrors using wget and choosing the fastest servers (both US and non-US) using netselect. The output file is written to OUTFILE.

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May 5, 2008

Howto setup Request-Tracker 3.6 on Debian Etch

by @ 1:29 am. Filed under General

RT is an industrial-grade trouble ticketing system. It lets a group of people intelligently and efficiently manage requests submitted by a community of users. RT is used by systems administrators, customer support staffs, NOCs, developers, and even marketing departments to track issues, outages, bugs, requests, and all kinds of other things at thousands of sites around the world.

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April 28, 2008

Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Screenshots Tour

by @ 4:21 pm. Filed under Other Linux

Ubuntu is a community developed, linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.The most recent version, Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), was released on April 24, 2008.

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April 24, 2008

Howto Crack Rar, 7z, and zip files in Linux

by @ 10:40 am. Filed under General, Security

If you forget your password for compressed archive (rar, 7z, zip), this program is the solution.This program uses bruteforce algorithm to find correct password. You can specify wich characters will be used in password generations.

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April 22, 2008

How to disable the “– MARK –” in Debian log file

by @ 4:36 pm. Filed under General

If you check your /var/log/messages file you can see lot of messages with -Mark- these are useless.You can disable them with the following procedure.

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April 18, 2008

Howto Crack Zip Files Password in Linux

by @ 2:12 pm. Filed under General

If you want to crack zip file passwords use fcrackzip.fcrackzip is a fast password cracker partly written in assembler. It is able to crack password protected zip files with brute force or dictionary based attacks, optionally testing with unzip its results.

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April 11, 2008

How to setup GeoIP support for apache2 On Debian Etch

by @ 12:04 am. Filed under Webserver

This is an apache2 module for finding the country that a web request originated from. It uses the GeoIP library and database to perform the lookup.This module only works on Apache 2.0.x servers.

First you need to make sure you have apache2 server installed and working fine.

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April 6, 2008

sshpass - Non-interactive ssh password authentication

by @ 11:04 am. Filed under General, Free Tools, Security

SSH’s (secure shell) most common authentication mode is called “interactive keyboard password authentication”, so called both because it is typically done via keyboard, and because openssh takes active measures to make sure that the password is, indeed, typed interactively by the keyboard. Sometimes, however, it is necessary to fool ssh into accepting an interactive password non-interactively. This is where sshpass comes in.

SECURITY NOTE: There is a reason openssh insists that passwords be typed interactively. Passwords are harder to store securely and to pass around securely between programs. If you

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April 1, 2008

How to filter spam with Spamassassin and Postfix in Debian

by @ 12:01 am. Filed under General, Security

We have already discussed how to install mail server with postfix+Devcot+SASL+Squirrel Mail in this article we will see how to add spam filter for postfix mail server.

Apache SpamAssassin is an extensible email filter that is used to identify spam. Once identified, the mail can then be optionally tagged as spam for later filtering. It provides a command line tool to perform filtering, a client-server system to filter large volumes of mail, and Mail::SpamAssassin, a set of Perl modules allowing Apache SpamAssassin to be used in a wide variety of email systems.

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March 28, 2008

How to Split apache Logs With vlogger in debian etch

by @ 12:03 am. Filed under Webserver

Vlogger is a little piece of code borned to handle dealing with large amounts of virtualhost logs. It’s bad news that apache can’t do this on its own. Vlogger takes piped input from apache, splits it off to separate files based on the first field. It uses a file handle cache so it can’t run out of file descriptors. It will also start a new logfile every night at midnight, and maintain a symlink to the most recent file. For security, it can drop privileges and do a chroot to the logs directory.

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