Squid proxy server with user authentication Rumi, June 28, 2009 If you are planning to set up proxy authentication program, using squid+webmin it’s quite simple- Click “Authentication Program” icon on webmin Enter the following infos in the right boxes- Basic authentication program- /usr/lib/squid/pam_auth Number of authentication programs- 5 Authentication cache time- 5 Hrs Back to squid index Click “Access Control”… Continue Reading
Ubuntu- adding new interfaces Rumi, June 28, 2009 It was a little tricky than my centos or suse or fedora experiences, start looking for- /etc/network/interfaces And here goes my configurations- Continue Reading
Install Ubuntu 8.04.2 (32 bit) Server Rumi, June 28, 2009 It is recommended to use a clean (fresh) Ubuntu 8.04 LTS install where you selected no additional packages or servers during setup. : 1) Prepare your OS ******************************************************************************* Become root user by executing: ___ sudo su ___ and entering the password of the user that you created during setup. Edit… Continue Reading
Microsoft “Dhaka” daylight savings patch Rumi, June 18, 2009June 18, 2009 Microsoft Bangladesh today announced a patch based fix to address the Day Light Saving Time (DST) which is supposed to be effective in Bangladesh from June 19th at 11PM. This fix can be downloaded from Microsoft’s corporate website by going to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972423 and will be applicable to Computers running on… Continue Reading
Installing Proftpd on Suse Linux 11.0 Rumi, May 24, 2009 It was a really time consuming to make a workable daemon of proftp server. Surprisingly, this daemon is not a easily setup by other linux disto like FC or CentOS or RHL. Anyway, the purpose on installing this is to make it work with Webmin+Virtualmin package. So, this installation will… Continue Reading
Apache htaccess and htpasswd Rumi, May 23, 2009March 29, 2017 In order to protect a site or a directory using Apache htaccess and htpasswd files follow the steps- 1. Creating .htaccess file and putting the following code- AuthUserFile /your/abosolute/path/to/this/file/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthName “Protected files” AuthType Basic <Limit GET> require valid-user </Limit> 2. Create a .htpasswd in the same directory as… Continue Reading
Software RAID 1 on Windows 2003 Rumi, May 7, 2009May 7, 2009 This series of articles will show how to set up software RAID on a Windows Server 2003 system. Before you do anything with your disks, make sure you have a good backup. We will start with one Basic drive, create a RAID1 set on a new drive we install, remove… Continue Reading
Installing Proftp on OpenSuse 11 Rumi, April 30, 2009 I want to use Proftpd instead of vsftpd which is SUSE’s default FTP server because the control panel software I am going to install on this server (ISPConfig) requires Proftpd on OpenSUSE 11 (on other distributions this is different). Since there are no OpenSUSE packages for Proftpd I have to… Continue Reading
Installing Nagios on openSUSE 11.0 Rumi, April 27, 2009 Scope: Nagios is an excellent tool that can be used to monitor your systems and devices. For more detailed information check out the main Nagios site : Nagios.org The scope of this howto is to give specific installation tips for Nagios running on openSUSE 11.x (should also work on openSUSE… Continue Reading