When browsing web files and directory, most bots, without consideration to .htaccess restrictions, have the capability to crawl and sniff files and folders located under your web root folder, even if these files and folders were not visually displayed from your web pages. Take for an example, you displayed a file under http://domain.com/folder1/folder2/folder3/page.html Most bots [...]

Access to the news server can be open to everyone, or it can require user authentication. The NNTP service allows fine tuning of security policies and is capable of handling a large number of virtual domains and independent server instances on a single computer. The NNTP service is not installed by default. You must install [...]

When each quota-enabled file system is remounted, the system is now capable of working with disk quotas. However, the file system itself is not yet ready to support quotas. To do this, you must first run quotacheck. The quotacheck command examines quota-enabled file systems, building a table of the current disk usage for each one. This table is [...]

Successfully networking your Ubuntu system with Windows clients involves providing and integrating with services common to Windows environments. Such services assist the sharing of data and information about the computers and users involved in the network, and may be classified under three major categories of functionality: File and Printer Sharing Services. Using the Server Message [...]

The name SafeSquid®, suggests that it is built out of Squid. However that is not true! Squid is an excellent Caching Proxy server built by an entirely different team of people and maintained at http://www.squid-cache.org  SafeSquid was originally conceived as an add-on plug-in for Squid,  with a simple objective of merely enhancing the filtering capabilities [...]

ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply [...]

Command Summary Use arp Command mostly used for checking existing Ethernet connectivity and IP address Most common use: arp This command should be used in conjunction with the ifconfig and route commands. It is mostly useful for me to check a network card and get the IP address quick. Obviously there are many more parameters, [...]

All of the operations considered in this article are operations upon a router, whether that router is a Linux box or Cisco dedicated hardware or some other type of machine. In this chapter I consider the traditional methods of IPv4 routing as using static configurations that are manually input by the network administrator. 1.1 Traditional [...]

The Virtual Private Network – VPN – has attracted the attention of many organizations looking to both expand their networking capabilities and reduce their costs. The VPN can be found in workplaces and homes, where they allow employees to safely log into company networks. Telecommuters and those who travel often find a VPN a more [...]

Subversion depends on a number of third party tools and libraries.Some of them are only required to run a Subversion server; others are necessary just for a Subversion client. This section explains what other tools and libraries will be required so that Subversion can be built with the set of features you want

When an Access Gateway is not licensed as a load balancer, you can configure a virtual server with one real server bound to it. Multiple real servers cannot be load balanced, but the virtual server can provide health monitoring and failover capabilities. You can use the capability to configure failover to multiple servers running the [...]