Category: Administrations

DNAT using Iptables

Rumi, January 12, 2009

Before I start I DNAT, I’d better say what it does- The DNAT target is used to do Destination Network Address Translation, which means that it is used to rewrite the Destination IP address of a packet. If a packet is matched, and this is the target of the rule, the packet, and all…

Add .exe to Windows Service

Rumi, January 9, 2009

It had way been long days since looked for some tool to make exe’s run as windows service. Well, guess everybody knows the advantage of service tool rather than put the appz on start up menu! Simple- the application loads prior windows users log in to the system! Anyway, I…

Poppassd server on NT version

Rumi, January 9, 2009

Finally got the Poppasswd on NT. It’s essential for 2 mailing systems: Surgemail mail server (http://www.netwinsite.com) Horde for windows version on webmail password change!

Disbale/Enable Directory browsing in Apache

Rumi, December 22, 2008

This can be done either in following ways- Global settings in httpd.conf or Per directory using .haccess

Install & configuration of Poppasswd server on CentOS 5.2

Rumi, December 7, 2008December 7, 2008

1. Download Poppassd Daemon for Centos 5 Distro from here- http://rpm.razorsedge.org/centos-5/RE/poppassd-1.8.5-3.el5.re.i386.rpm 2. Install using “rpm -U poppassd-1.8.5-3.el5.re.i386.rpm“

Installing WINE on Centos

Rumi, December 6, 2008

Wine is not installed by default using “Yum install win” Solution: You have to enable EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repo and install the packages:

Fail to start proftpd in CentOS

Rumi, November 12, 2008

My ProFTPD was not starting at all even after removing and re-installing! Moved around few places. So, I investigated the followings- Checked whether some other FTP server was running without my conscent! The result came negative.

Installing Squish

Rumi, November 9, 2008November 9, 2008

Well, install squint is quite simple! But installing squish is quite tricky- the document provided is not sufficient to cover few steps. I’ll try to summerize it (I’ve tested it on FC-5 distro)- Step -1 Make backup of your squid.conf for in case things go wrong. Install perl GD module….

Installing GD.pm on Fedora-5 distro

Rumi, November 9, 2008

Using “yum install GD” or “yum install perl-GD” or any other didn’t help me installing GD perl module. However, an exceptional tricky yum did give me a success. So, let me put it here before I forget to do it in the future! yum -y install perl-GD

Squint and Squish 2 cute admin tool for Linux :)

Rumi, November 9, 2008November 9, 2008

Well, Leading Edge Business Solution from South Africa- do created 2 excellent and to my view most essential tools for network administration to sniff users and warn them! Actually they run on linux environment with Squid Proxy server running on the network to serve clients (likely network clients).