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Booting Linux in Less Than 40 Seconds

admin — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:44:23 -0500

Have you ever dreamt about booting Linux in less than one minute? Now this dream can come true: in less than 40 seconds after pressing the power button, you will have a perfect fully-functional operating system, exactly as you left the last session. Even better than you thought, right? Now you could say: "Crazy boy - I don't believe you!" Well then, check it out for yourself.

Troubleshooting Apache using strace

admin — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:55:42 -0400

Occasionally system administrators can run into situations where the conventional way of troubleshooting an issue may not yield results. The conventional way means using test scripts, observing the log files, tweaking configuration settings and the like. In such cases, one will have to dig deeper into the internals of the server.

Installing Chilisoft on Linux

admin — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:52:14 -0400

ASP is a server side scripting engine for dynamic web pages. ASP pages contain server-side scripts and HTML tags. As a Microsoft Technology, it works with Microsoft IIS webserver. You can't run ASP apps on other web servers like Apache, SUN Web Server, Zeus Web Server without using a special application such as ChiliASP or InstantASP.

Rule-based DoS attacks prevention shell script

admin — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:18:11 -0400

In this article, I describe a simple rule-based DoS attack-prevention shell script. However, the proposed shell script is not a perfect tool for preventing DoS attacks, but a powerful tool for alleviating DoS attacks overheads of the Linux servers significantly.

IISCnfg.vbs - IIS Settings Replication

admin — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:44:14 -0500

Microsoft provides a tool called IISCnfg for management of the Internet Information Services (IIS) Settings. One of the features that this includes is the ability to replicate the IIS settings from one server to another. This is useful in a webfarm environment where you require all web servers to be in sync.

Kernel Compilation

admin — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:44:28 -0500

If you have decided to re-compile your kernel it essentially means that either the current kernel configuration does not fulfill your needs or your are upgrading to the latest kernel.I needed to upgrade my 2.4 to 2.6 for working with my Bluetooth dongle.

LAMP vs. LAMP Rematch

admin — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:52:22 -0500

Two very popular and widely used languages for building dynamic web sites are Perl and PHP. They make up two thirds of the "P" in the Linux Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python (LAMP) stack. How does their performance, using mod_perl and mod_php, compare for everyday web programming? I attempted to find out.

MySQL Migration: MyISAM to InnoDB

admin — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:14:37 -0400

The MySQL database is unique in that it offers multiple storage engines. The SQL parser and front end interfaces are separate from the storage engines. This lets you choose the low level table format that suits your application best.

Allowing Exactly the Right People to Send Email

admin — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:08:15 -0400

If you need a solution to control email relaying, a program called Exact may be just what you need. Exact stands for EXperimental Access Control Thing. It is a POP-before-SMTP daemon that integrates with most email systems. Before getting into the details of setup and configuration, it is worth spending a little time discussing the somewhat esoteric problem it solves.

Hardening a Linux server in 10 minutes

admin — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:19:12 -0400

Did you know that a freshly installed Linux server can be hardened in less than 10 minutes? Here’s how!