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Securing OpenSSH: Filter Host To Limit Access

Securing OpenSSH: Filter Host To Limit Access

One technique to securing OpenSSH is filter some hosts that allowed to access your server through SSH. This technique will prevent us from openSSH brute force attack. To filter some hosts that allow to... [More...]

PHP Suhosin: Hardening Your PHP5 On Ubuntu

PHP Suhosin: Hardening Your PHP5 On Ubuntu

PHP Suhosin is an open source patch for PHP5 to hardened the servers security. From the PHP Suhosin official:”Suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installations that was designed to... [More...]

Creating deb Packages From tar.bz File In Ubuntu

Creating deb Packages From tar.bz File In Ubuntu

Creating deb Packages in Ubuntu from tar.bz is possible using “alien” command. Alien command converts an RPM or source package files into a Debian package file or Alien can install an RPM file... [More...]

Ubuntu Torrent Client From Command Line

Ubuntu Torrent Client From Command Line

Ubuntu torrent client is not only available in GUI mode. The most simple Ubuntu torrent client is Transmission, beside it has GUI mode it also available for command line interface. It have the same feature,... [More...]

Send Clipboard Data To VMware Ubuntu Host

Send Clipboard Data To VMware Ubuntu Host

Connect your host operating system to VMware guest operating system give you simplicity and convenience to use both operating system at the same time. One of them is shared clipboard. When you copy some... [More...]

Install VMware Tools On Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat

Install VMware Tools On Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat

VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine’s guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine. VMware tools allow guest operating... [More...]

[FIX] spamd On “Hostname” Failed In cPanel

[FIX] spamd On “Hostname” Failed In cPanel

Recently i found that spamd or spamassassin cannot start on my VPS (Virtual Private Server). It always email me with the following message: spamd failed @ Thu Apr 14 16:22:42 2011. A restart was attempted... [More...]

[HowTo] Install suPHP On Ubuntu

[HowTo] Install suPHP On Ubuntu

suPHP is a tool for executing PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners. Along with the Apache module, mod _suphp it allow Apache to process php with the user permission. This will improve the security.... [More...]

Cloud Linux: Perfect OS For Share Web Hosting

Cloud Linux: Perfect OS For Share Web Hosting

Today’s learn is Cloud Linux. So how i found Cloud Linux and what is Cloud Linux? A while ago i got a disaster to my vps, and this blog was wiped out (all data is gone). And i moved to new hosting,... [More...]

Beginners Guide: Change SSH Port On Ubuntu Or CentOS

Beginners Guide: Change SSH Port On Ubuntu Or CentOS

If you install CSF (ConfigServer Security & Firewall) you will find in their recommend list that you need to change your SSH port for security reasons. And changing SSH port in both Ubuntu or CentOS... [More...]

Beginner Tips: Bad interpreter – no such file or directory

Beginner Tips: Bad interpreter – no such file or directory

Sometimes when you run your script there was an error like this: root@server1$ ./script.sh bash: ./script.sh: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory Thats because there are one or many... [More...]

[HowTo] Install ODBC Driver For MySQL On Ubuntu

[HowTo] Install ODBC Driver For MySQL On Ubuntu

ODBC or Open Database Conectivity provides a standard software interface for accessing database management systems (DBMS). ODBC could work in multi platform. With ODBC API, the application only needs to... [More...]

[HowTo] Install Memcached On Centos 5

[HowTo] Install Memcached On Centos 5

Memcached is a free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. A WordPress blog... [More...]

Customize the Panel and Theme of Linux-Ubuntu

Customize the Panel and Theme of Linux-Ubuntu

If you need to have a free operating system to be installed into your PC or laptop, perhaps you can go for Ubuntu. Yes, this operating system is free and it is designed by famous company called Linux.... [More...]

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Released, What’s Next?

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Released, What’s Next?

The latest update to the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system – Ubuntu 10.10 – has been officially released at 10:10:10 GMT on October 10th, 2010. Ubuntu 10.10 with codename “Maverick Meerkat’”,... [More...]

Encrypt Your Flashdrive With TrueCrypt In Ubuntu

Encrypt Your Flashdrive With TrueCrypt In Ubuntu

Data privacy is important. You need to keep it safe and store in your harddrive or flash drive only. And you don’t want your data got by the wrong hand. You need to secure your data where you store... [More...]