David Kitchen

The information on this is to be found here: http://www.configserver.com/cp/csf.html In a very brief summary though, it's a simplified configuration manager for iptables (the Linux firewall) and also provides things like log file watching, alerts, authentication failures, login tracking, suspicious process reporting, etc. This guide was written for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, but I'm sure it will work on most Linux with possibly only minor adjustments. 1. Installation Install pre-requisites: sudo apt-get install libwww-perl Get ...

HAProxy is wonderful, it's way faster than nginx and if you want to it can provide high availability too. I'm just using it as a load balancer though... and the catch is, HAProxy doesn't do SSL, so for that to work port 443 will be handled by stunnel in front of HAProxy... upside, my Apache2 servers never have to care about SSL, stunnel does that for us. This guide ...

This caused me a bit of a headache... mostly with nlockmgr, and as I know this caused me headache last time too (pages I'd bookmarked had all gone the way of a 404) here's a quick guide to setting up an NFS server on a Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala server. NFS SERVER 1. Install NFS sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server nfs-common portmap 2. Create a share mkdir /files sudo vim /etc/exports Then add your share to ...