[HowtoForge] Newsletter 08/20/2009

HowtoForge Newsletter 08/20/2009
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New HOWTOs:
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* The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 9.04
* Creating Backups With luckyBackup On An Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop
* Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.3 (LAMP)
* Monitoring Multiple Log Files At A Time With MultiTail On Debian Lenny
* Registering Local Or Remote Commands With logsave
* Installation And Setup Guide For DRBD, OpenAIS, Pacemaker + Xen On OpenSUSE 11.1
* Clean Up Your Desktop With Computer Janitor On Ubuntu 9.04
* Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 1

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The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 9.04
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This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 9.04 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Kubuntu 9.04 is derived from Ubuntu 9.04 and uses the KDE desktop instead of the GNOME desktop.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-kubuntu-9.04

Creating Backups With luckyBackup On An Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop
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This tutorial explains how to install and use luckyBackup on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. luckyBackup is an application for data back-up and synchronization powered by the rsync tool. It is simple to use, fast (transfers over only changes made and not all data), safe (keeps your data safe by checking all declared directories before proceeding in any data manipulation ), reliable and fully customizable.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/creating-backups-with-luckybackup-on-an-ubuntu-9.04-desktop

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.3 (LAMP)
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LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 5.3 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-apache2-with-php5-and-mysql-support-on-centos-5.3-lamp

Monitoring Multiple Log Files At A Time With MultiTail On Debian Lenny
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MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). It can also monitor wildcards: if another file matching the wildcard has a more recent modification date, it will automatically switch to that file. That way you can, for example, monitor a complete directory of files. Merging of two or even more log files is possible.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/monitoring-multiple-log-files-at-a-time-with-multitail-on-debian-lenny

Registering Local Or Remote Commands With logsave
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The general idea is to use the logsave to register commands and their outputs. Initially we record local commands and then we use this technique to make a record (locally) about a remote session.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/registering-local-or-remote-commands-with-logsave

Installation And Setup Guide For DRBD, OpenAIS, Pacemaker + Xen On OpenSUSE 11.1
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The following will install and configure DRBD, OpenAIS, Pacemaker and Xen on OpenSUSE 11.1 to provide highly-available virtual machines. This setup does not utilize Xen's live migration capabilities. Instead, VMs will be started on the secondary node as soon as failure of the primary is detected. Xen virtual disk images are replicated between nodes using DRBD and all services on the cluster will be managed by OpenAIS and Pacemaker. The following setup utilizes DRBD 8.3.2 and Pacemaker 1.0.4. It is important to note that DRBD 8.3.2 has come a long way since previous versions in terms of compatibility with Pacemaker. In particular, a new DRBD OCF resource agent script and new DRBD-level resource fencing features. This configuration will not work with older releases of DRBD.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/installation-and-setup-guide-for-drbd-openais-pacemaker-xen-on-opensuse-11.1

Clean Up Your Desktop With Computer Janitor On Ubuntu 9.04
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Computer Janitor is a tool that lets you clean up a system so it's more like a freshly installed one. Computer Janitor deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space. This tutorial shows how to use it on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/clean-up-your-desktop-with-computer-janitor-on-ubuntu-9.04

Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 1
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This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article explains key principles of the policy or access control rule sets in Firewall Builder. I plan to demonstrate examples of policy rules and how they translate into iptables, pf and Cisco IOS and PIX configurations in the next article of the series.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/firewall-access-policy-rulesets-part-1

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