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. Continue Reading
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…. Continue Reading
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). Continue Reading
mynetworks issue! Rumi, October 28, 2008 Need to allow the entire IPv-4 in postfix set-up? You should be crazy to do that 🙂 Anyway, here goes the net mask calculaitons, Continue Reading
Postfix 2.2.3 main.cf configured sample file Rumi, October 28, 2008 queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix command_directory = /usr/sbin daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix mail_owner = postfix myhostname = server.domain.com mydomain = domain.com myorigin = $mydomain inet_interfaces = all mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain, mail. $mydomain, www.$mydomain, ftp.$mydomain local_recipient_maps = unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 mynetworks = 192.168.1.0/24 127.0.0.0/8 #relay_domains = $mydestination #relayhost = $mydomain #relayhost… Continue Reading
Search for a File in Linux Rumi, October 27, 2008October 27, 2008 Locating any file on a linux operating system can be done quickly from the command line. Step 1 Index your file system with updatedb. This makes a list of files so that later searches won’t have to look in the entire span of directories each time. Continue Reading
URL Redirect PHP script for Horde Rumi, October 12, 2008November 6, 2008 I nearly got mad implementing horde in virtualmin. Though this section will not tell how the Horde was setup. Anyways, HORDE needs to work under /horde framework. I know this can be fixed up in registry.php file and can be used as /groupware or something. Continue Reading
Creating Domain Parking Page in Virtualmin Rumi, October 4, 2008 Well, who ever set up virtualmin must be sick in seeing the default CentOS Apache page! I bet you do- since this it concerns to other hosted domains and virtual servers! Continue Reading
DNS Slave Auto-Configuration Quickstart Rumi, September 23, 2008 Virtualmin can automatically manage any number of DNS slave servers for you. Once configured, it will create slave zones on other servers and configure them to automatically update when changes are made on your Virtualmin server. For this to work, you need Virtualmin on your primary server and Webmin… Continue Reading
Set up the firewall to listen MySQL on port 3306 Rumi, September 6, 2008 Just a small tweaking comnand that allows MySQL server on a linux server to open & listen to port 3306 for remote connectivity- [root@linux root]# iptables -I INPUT -p tcp –dport 3306 -j ACCEPT Continue Reading