Category: Configurations (Linux)

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”…

It was a little tricky than my centos or suse or fedora experiences, start looking for- /etc/network/interfaces And here goes my configurations-

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Installation of the sarg log analyzer: 1) Download the packeg to “/usr/local/src” directory cd /usr/local/src wget -nd http://downloads.safesquid.net/free/general/precompiled/sarg-2.2.3.1.tar.gz

For FC or Centos Distro use yum install php-devel