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Lighttpd Secure Configuration

Wed, 11/19/2008 - 04:15 — voyageur

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Conflicts among ss, com_err, e2fsprogs, and e2fsprogs-libs

Fri, 10/31/2008 - 23:22 — voyageur

After I did a "emerge --sync" today, "emerge -pvuDN world" showed the following package conflict:

Gentoo

Set up SSH Tunneling on a Linux Workstation

Thu, 10/30/2008 - 02:24 — voyageur

In short, you can issue this command from your terminal to do ssh tunneling:

$ ssh -f -N -L 8081:127.0.0.1:3000 username@hostname.com

"-f" is to requests ssh to go to background just before command execution.

"-N" tells SSH client not to execute a remote command.

"-L [bind_address:]port:host:hostport" is to specifies that the given port on the local (client) host is to be forwarded to the given host and port on the remote side.

For convenience, we will setup a profile in ~/.ssh/config:

Information Security

Install VMware Tools under BackTrack 3

Thu, 10/23/2008 - 20:43 — voyageur

To Install VMware Tools under BackTrack 3, here are the steps:

Locale in CentOS

Fri, 10/17/2008 - 05:17 — voyageur

To compile a locale in CentOS, do something like this:

root# localedef -c -f UTF-8 -i en_US en_US.utf8

To see all locales available, do this:

$ locale -a

To set locale, do something like this:

$ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

CentOS

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Mail Transport Agents Comparison

Wed, 10/15/2008 - 04:23 — voyageur

This article MTA Comparison offers a very nice summary on Qmail, Postfix, Sendmail, and Exim.

Email

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Drupal Tip: How to Move Serialized Data from One Table to Another Table

Wed, 10/08/2008 - 05:19 — voyageur

We were trying to insert serialized array data into a table, using the module.install update. We then noticed that we couldn't unserialize the data afterwards. After a little looking around, we realized that we cannot use the function "update_sql()" to insert the serialized data.

Drupal

Search-and-destroy, misleading software?

Thu, 10/02/2008 - 23:39 — voyageur

Someone left a comment in this blog introducing a trojan removal tool from search-and-destroy.com. So we decided to take a look.

That website looks very skeptical, with no real contact information at all. It displays some security seals, but god knows where those seals come from.

With a couple more searches, we found some comments on that website, telling that it is a misleading software. Here are the links: