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Three Steps To Have Perfect Fedora 9 Desktop Experience Part 2

After following a recent post of a perfect fedora 9 desktop, which automatically installs most requested fedora desktop softwares, you can install another and more fedora applications easily by referring to another automatic fedora installer called Easylife, as an alternative automatic installer for fedora desktop systems. Easylife covers a lot of rpm package and features [...]

How To Monitor and Be Informed of IP Address Changes From Your Network

An IT client enters your company, your boss ordered you to provide a browsing local IP address for that client’s laptop for one week. Your boss gave emphasis to also monitor his IP address changes if any and let him be informed immediately for such IP address changes. But you don’t have access to your [...]

How To Install PHP Tidy on Fedora 9

What is Tidy? Tidy is fundamentally a tool that reads in HTML cleans it up and writes it out again. It was developed as a program you run from the console prompt, but there are GUI encapsulations available, e.g. HTML-Kit, which you might prefer. Tidy is a standard PHP module provides tidy library support. Tidy [...]

How To Install and Configure Caching DNS on Fedora

BIND DNS are nameservers responsible basically for resolving domain names or hostnames into their equivalent IP addresses. Websites or domain names have their own equivalent IP addresses that are usually managed and provided by the same website firms. If somebody is browsing a website from his browser, this website is being resolved, looked up and [...]

How To Scan DNS BIND Conf File For Errors On Fedora

What is BIND? BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the DNS (Domain Name System) protocols. BIND includes a DNS server (named), which resolves host names to IP addresses; a resolver library (routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS); and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating properly. When [...]

How To Selectively Archive and Backup MBox/IMAP Mails Using ArchiveMail

Maybe some of your mailboxes are quite large (eg, over 10,000 messages) and they are taking a while to load in your mail reader. Perhaps they are taking up too much space on your disk. Archiving old messages to a separate, compressed mailbox is possible. Here’s a quick post on managing your mbox/imap mailboxes directly. [...]

How to Choose One Linux Distributions

While there are certainly many versions (“distributions”) of Linux to choose from, picking one that is right for you can be straightforward as long as you know your needs and are willing to do some research. – The balance act: Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat and Fedora Linux, Mandriva Linux, and SuSE Linux offer reliability, flexibility, [...]

How to configure SSH to the PIX Firewall for remote management

Complete these steps to configure Secure Shell (SSH) to the PIX Firewall: 1.Before a connection to the PIX is made through SSH, these prerequisites must be met: *The PIX must run version 5.2 or later. *The PIX must have a VPN Data Encryption Standard (DES) license, as indicated in the output of the show version [...]

How to configure SSL VPN Client on ASA

The SSL VPN Client (SVC) is a VPN tunneling technology that gives remote users the benefits of an IPsec VPN client without the need for network administrators to install and configure IPsec VPN clients on remote computers. The SVC uses the SSL encryption that is already present on the remote computer as well as the [...]

Step by step Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) setup in Vista

Vista lets you share your Internet connection with other computers on your network. Logically enough, the feature that lets you do this is called Internet Connection Sharing, which gets abbreviated to ICS. ICS can be a great way of saving time and money: instead of needing a modem and a phone line (or a DSL [...]

Checklist for SQL mail configuration

You must have a mail client (such as Microsoft Outlook) installed on the computer that runs SQL Server. Use the Corporate or Workgroup option for Microsoft Outlook 2000 (Microsoft Outlook 2002 does not have the Corporate or Workgroup option). To select the option, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then double-click the Mail Services [...]

How to configure failover on the Adaptive Security Appliance

Failover can be setup for two identical security appliances connected to each other. The devices can be connected either through a dedicated failover link and optionally, a stateful failover link. The Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) supports two failover configurations: Active/Active failover Active/Standby failover Active/Active failover Setup?With Active/Active failover, both units can pass network traffic. This [...]

How to configure group lock through the RADIUS server on an ASA

In order to configure group lock, send the group policy name in the class attribute 25 on the Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server and choose the group to lock the user into within the policy. For example, in order to lock the Cisco 123 user into the RemoteGroup group, define the Internet Engineering [...]

How to configure one way VPN tunnel on the PIX/ASA

If you set up the PIX/ASA on main site in order to initiate VPN tunnel and remote site, only the main site should be able to initiate the tunnel. The remote site should not be able to initiate the VPN connection. In order to have the VPN tunnel be initiated only from one end, configure [...]

How to configure or edit the connection timeout setting on the PIX/ASA

In order to change the global timeout setting for all connection with the CLI, refer to this command: asa(config)#timeout conn 01:00:00 This command can also change default timeout for several other connections, for example: xlate | conn | udp | icmp | rpc | h225 | h323 | mgcp | mgcp-pat | sip | sip-disconnect [...]