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How to Lightning Speed Big Claws

Who gets tired of Thunderbird and Evolution mail client software? How about, “You’ve Got Claws Mail!” Do you want to try a new GTK+-based lightweight but heavy duty email client for linux? Let’s give Claws a shot. What is Claws? Claws Mail is an email client (and news reader), based on GTK+, which offers a [...]

How to uninstall Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is an important update for Windows Vista. Windows Vista SP1 contains many reliability and usability updates for Windows Vista. After you install Windows Vista SP1, you may notice that a hardware device or an installed program works differently. Therefore, you may want to uninstall Windows Vista SP1 as a [...]

How to Prevent the IIS SMTP Virtual Server from Relaying E-mail Messages

1) Start Internet Information Services Manager or open the Internet Information Services (IIS) snap-in. 2) Expand Server_name, where Server_name is the name of the server, right-click Default SMTP Virtual Server, and then click Properties. 3) Click the Access tab, and then under Access control, click Authentication. 4) Click to select either or both the Basic [...]

Rsyslog – Most Advanced Log Server

Rsyslog is an enhanced syslogd supporting, among others, MySQL, PostgreSQL, failover log destinations, syslog/tcp, fine grain output format control, high precision timestamps, queued operations and the ability to filter on any message part. It is quite compatible to stock sysklogd and can be used as a drop-in replacement. Its advanced features make it suitable for [...]

How to Install Woopra Analytics on Fedora

Having heard of Woopra on Fedora 9 ? Here’s a quick and simple three (3) easy steps on how to install Woopra client on Fedora 9. Fedora 9: Woopra Client Installation 1. Sign up and register for Woopra account here. You need to receive an activation email from Woopra before you can proceed with the [...]

How to setup Transparent Proxy with Squid

One of the many tasks we could be facing from time to time in our work is setting up and building a production proxy server. Proxy implementation could be done in several ways to achieve the same goal. One best bet we could have with this kind of setup is by using Squid linux software [...]

Fedora 9: How to Install SquidGuard Proxy Filter

SquidGuard is a URL redirector and content filter addon that restricts proxy clients from accessing particular and/or banned site(s), IP addresses, URLs, website patterns using the proxy server.  SquidGuard can be used in conjunction with Squid proxy to implement website content filter from the proxy server. Here’s a run down on how to install and [...]

How To Configure Sendmail for DNS-based Blacklisting

As soon as a host connects to SMTP port running a sendmail MTA, sendmail can also be configured to check and block IP addresses of incoming emails that are found to be listed on one or more DNS blacklists. This is possible by configuring sendmail directive dnsbl or DNS blacklists. During the SMTP handshake and [...]

How To See Invisible YM Users using Linux

Yahoo messenger from Yahoo! is one of the most commonly installed messenger on windows-based desktop systems, besides from MSN messenger, which comes as a default windows messenger from windows OS. In Linux world, there are variety of all around chat/voice messengers available. From the default GNOME GAIM messenger, now known as Pidgin, there’s also Kopete [...]

How To Check Squid Logs for Possible Tunnelled STMP via HTTP Injection

If MTAs are gettings smarter and better each new stable releases, spammers are also keeping up with them. Email spammers tend to undergo adaptive learning process from these commonly laid out standard and advanced email defense and antispam mechanism. If antispam features of MTAs are getting more centralized, effective and efficient, email spammers too are [...]

How to verify firewall ACLs and router rule sets using Linux

Core routers and firewall gateways are usually comprised of basic and extended access control lists including rule sets that define local network security level and control access. They are commonly implemented on gateway routers restricting hosts, protocols and port access to other host or networks located after their default gateways. Basically, routers and default gateways [...]

How To Setup and Install Robusts and Highly Configurable BackupPC

Considering the high-end rising PCs and storage capacity nowadays, it is now practical and cost effective to do backup management and administration to server’s local or network storage disk, not like decades ago where you would buy a very costly tape backup drive to backup small enteprise scaled data. This is where we cover BackupPC. [...]

How To Install An Extremely Fast, Lightweight, But Feature-riched Multi-Tab File Manager

Powerful linux file managers have been around for quite long time. They have revolutionized how file management can easily be done inside Linux X. This has been possible with the continuous stable development of Linux X features and stability. Current file managers have offered a lot of feature-rich and powerful file manager intuitive interface and [...]

How To Allow and Deny SSH Access To Selected Hosts and IP Addresses

With default OpenSSH installation, SSH allows access to any clients. This retriction can be configured to allow SSH access only to certain hosts and IP addresses to decrease unauthorized SSH login attempts to known and particular computer hosts and IP addresses only. SSH Access Restrictions via TCP Wrapper Step One 1. Backup and modify /etc/hosts.allow [...]

How To Create Separate SSH Log File for Specific SSH Clients

By default, OpenSSH dumps log messages to /var/log/secure authentication log file. The need to log particular host or group of IP address to separate SSH log file is needed at times to further log SSH details for further record and monitoring. Create Separate SSH Log File for Particular SSH Client Log Attempts Here’s how to [...]