Author: Rumi

Hasan T. Emdad is an ICT Solution Architect, Project Manager with 12+ year expertise in HW selection, OS expertise on Linux and MS, Supervising Application SW on Pearl, Java, dot Net and PHP with DB experience of MySQL, Postgre, MS and Oracle. He was involved in setting up several Turn Key ICT including Telecom based projects on various government and autonomous bodies in the country. Developed more than 50 applications running with different operators and users. Managing a team of more than 10 in-house engineers and developers and manages an outsourcing team experts and contributors. Very recently engineered Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) on Enterperise and Root Certifying Authority and deployed scalable Cloud Computing and Managed Services. He has post graduated (MBA) from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Installing Proftpd on Suse Linux 11.0

Rumi,

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…

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Apache htaccess and htpasswd

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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…

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Installing Proftp on OpenSuse 11

Rumi,

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…

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Installing Nagios on openSUSE 11.0

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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…

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