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Last Update: Sun Jun 8 23:14:45 2008

+ Question: Best tool for bare metal restore of Debian servers? + I've been doing a bit of searching through the Debian Administration (http://www.debian-administration.org/) archives and one [...] scenario: protecting a single machine (specifically a server) so that if it is compromised it can be rolled back to a previous state.

+ Calculate network, broadcast, netmask, etc with ipcalc + Ipcalc is a simple tool to calculate network, broadcast, netmask, etc. from an IP address. It also gives the class of the IP. It might ...

+ Monitoring with Munin + In this article I will describe how to install munin (http://munin.projects.linpro.no/) on 2 computers, but you can add more if you ...

+ Critical security update for openssl + A new security advisory has recently been released relating to the Debian openssl package, and whilst most security updates are not ...

+ Need a generic iptables tcp proxy? + Do you ever find yourself in need of a generic TCP proxy? Do you wish you could do it with netfilter? Do you want to proxy a ...

+ How to use any command in FTP ? + I wanted to use the "find" command on a FTP space but it's not possible to use this command with any "normal" FTP client. So, I ...

+ Logical Volume Management: How PVs form VGs for LVs + When I set out to build my first system using Logical Volume Management I was surprised by the lack of information about how LVM [...] how they related to each other. In fact I was well into my search for information before I figured out where to put the file system.

+ Making Apache2 execute CGI scripts, globally? + I have set up a Debian etch system with apache2, perl etc, but I cannot get apache to actually execute my ...

+ Using the dynamic DNS editor: nsupdate + nsupdate is the little-known brother of nslookup. It is used to make edits on a dynamic DNS without the need to edit zone files and ...

+ OpenSSH SFTP chroot() with ChrootDirectory + The upcoming version of OpenSSH ( 4.8p1 for the GNU/Linux port) features a new configuration option : ChrootDirectory . This has ...