Category: Configurations (Linux)

Monitor Windows Service using Nagios (Icinga)

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On the Nagios Server edit the file /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/windows.cfg: # vi /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/windows.cfg Add the following to create a new service definition to monitor the process state of WinVNC.exe (VNC Server): # Create a service for monitoring the WinVNC.exe process # Change the host_name to match the name of the host you…

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Postfix Configuration on Centos 5.x

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Let's install Postfix and Dovecot (Dovecot will be our POP3/IMAP server): yum install cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-devel cyrus-sasl-gssapi cyrus-sasl-md5 cyrus-sasl-plain postfix dovecot Next we configure SMTP-AUTH and TLS: postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_local_domain =' postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes' postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous' postconf -e 'broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes' postconf -e 'smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination'…

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Enable Directory Listing in Nginx Webserver

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Here is a simple way to enable directory listing in Nginx Webserver. I have a subdomain repository.wowtutorial.org and i want repository.wowtutorial.org to have ability to listing a directory. All we need to do just modify the vhosts or nginx.conf Add autoindex on; Please see the example below Example : #nano…

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Nginx Virtualhost Example

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Two Virtual Hosts, Serving Static Files http { index index.html;   server { server_name www.domain1.com; access_log logs/domain1.access.log main;   root /var/www/domain1.com/htdocs; }   server { server_name www.domain2.com; access_log logs/domain2.access.log main;   root /var/www/domain2.com/htdocs; } }

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Linux Distributions

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A must read to learn and know the origins of different flavors of Linux distros. You'l end up wondering 'why didn't I notice this before?…'  🙂 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions http://www.webmin.com/support.html

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PowerDNS Cache dump in CSV

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The objective is simple, a periodic cron cache dump of powerdns recursor on a setup. 1. create a shell code as below using nano- #nano /usr/local/bin/pdns-cache-dump.sh #!/bin/sh DAY=`/bin/date +%Y%m%d` TFILE="/var/log/pdns-cache/$(basename $0).$DAY.csv" rec_control dump-cache $TFILE echo "cache dump completed, dump script by rumi (hasan.emdad@mango.com.bd)"

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