Distributed Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.10

Distributed Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.10

This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers
(running Ubuntu 12.10) to one large storage server (distributed storage)
with GlusterFS.
The client sy…

Monitoring Linux And Unix Server Temperatures With Opsview

Monitoring Linux And Unix Server Temperatures With Opsview

Managing power consumption in a Datacenter is a key factor in helping
keep overall business energy costs down and ensuring servers are
running at optimum performance. Overheating can lead …

Installing And Using OpenVZ On Scientific Linux 6.3

Installing And Using OpenVZ On Scientific Linux 6.3

In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a Scientific Linux 6.3
server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private
Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the…

How To Install Cinnamon Desktop On Fedora 18

How To Install Cinnamon Desktop On Fedora 18

This tutorial shows how you can install Linux Mint’s Cinnamon
desktop on Fedora 18. Since it has now been included in the
repositories this can now be done quite quickly. Fedora’s default
desktop at the mo…

Building Nginx From Source On Debian Squeeze

Building Nginx From Source On Debian Squeeze
This tutorial describes how you can build nginx from source on
Debian Squeeze. Additionally, we will include some useful 3rd-party
modules like the naxsi WAF (web application firewall), SPDY etc.

How To Integrate DropBox Into Thunar (Fedora 18/XFCE)

How To Integrate DropBox Into Thunar (Fedora 18/XFCE)

Thunar is the default file manager for XFCE desktops. While it is
easy to integrate DropBox into Nautilus, the default file manager for
GNOME, it is not so trivial for Thunar. This guide explain…

How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On Fedora 18

How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On Fedora 18

This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for
virus scanning on a Fedora 18 system. In the end, whenever a file gets
uploaded through PureFTPd, ClamAV wil…

The Perfect Desktop – Fedora 18 XFCE

The Perfect Desktop – Fedora 18 XFCE

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Fedora 18
desktop (with the XFCE desktop environment) that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e.
that has all the software that people need to do the th…

How To Detect Weak Mail Passwords On Your ISPConfig 3 Server

How To Detect Weak Mail Passwords On Your ISPConfig 3 Server

This is a short tutorial on how to find out weak password for your
mail users. This will save you you a huge headache since spammers will
find out mail account with weak password and sen…

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Fedora 18 x86_64)

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Fedora 18 x86_64)
This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is
based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a
MySQL database. I…

How To Configure PureFTPd To Accept TLS Sessions On Fedora 18

How To Configure PureFTPd To Accept TLS Sessions On Fedora 18

FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data
are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can
be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secur…

Distributed Replicated Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.10

Distributed Replicated Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.10

This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 12.10) to a distributed replicated storage with GlusterFS. Nodes 1 and 2 (repl…

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 18

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 18

This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses
virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This
is much more perfor…

Running Contao 3.x On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Wheezy/Ubuntu 12.10

Running Contao 3.x On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Wheezy/Ubuntu 12.10

This tutorial shows how you can install and run a Contao 3.x web site
on a Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu 12.10 system that has nginx installed
instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronou…

Encrypt Your Data With EncFS (Fedora 18)

Encrypt Your Data With EncFS (Fedora 18)

EncFS
provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any
special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to
provide the filesystem interface. It is a pass-through fil…

Setting Up A Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS And Samba On Debian Squeeze

Setting Up A Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS And Samba On Debian Squeeze
This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on
Debian 6.0, using GlusterFS and SAMBA, and custom scripts and settings
to make life easier.

Installing Nagios 3.4.4 On CentOS 6.3

Installing Nagios 3.4.4 On CentOS 6.3

Nagios is a monitoring tool under GPL licence. This tool lets you
monitor servers, network hardware (switches, routers, …) and
applications. A lot of plugins are available and its big community makes
Nagios …

Using PHP5-FPM With Apache 2.4 (+ mod_proxy_fcgi Module) On Fedora 18

Using PHP5-FPM With Apache 2.4 (+ mod_proxy_fcgi Module) On Fedora 18

This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache 2.4 webserver on a Fedora 18 server with PHP5 (through PHP-FPM)
and MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alter…

Striping Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.10

Striping Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.10

This tutorial shows how to do data striping (segmentation of
logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can
be assigned to multiple physical devices in a…

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 18 (LAMP)

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 18 (LAMP)
LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a
Fedora 18 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.