[HowtoForge] Newsletter 10/01/2009

HowtoForge Newsletter 10/01/2009
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New HOWTOs:
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* Network Monitoring Appliance
* Boot Linux Over HTTP With boot.kernel.org (BKO)
* Boot Linux Over HTTP With netboot.me
* How To Prevent Brute Force Attacks With Brutelock
* Installing NVIDIA Drivers On Debian Lenny Manually
* Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2009.1
* How To Install Internet Explorer 6/7 On Fedora 10/11
* OpenERP >= 5.0.6 All-In-One Installer & Updater On Ubuntu With GUI (Downloads Latest Stable Branch From Launchpad)

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Network Monitoring Appliance
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My ambition was to implement a small (better tiny) appliance for monitoring network health and network resources, short and longtime trends, running under VMware Server or VMware ESX. So I had an eye upon all components which are implemented on the system, to be as leightweight as possible. This was also the reason why no SQL DBMS based software was used. The appliance is based on Ubuntu Jeos LTS (8.04.3 at the time of this writing). Almost all used components are from the related repositories. This tutorial shows how the appliance was implemented.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/network-monitoring-appliance

Boot Linux Over HTTP With boot.kernel.org (BKO)
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This tutorial shows how you can boot Linux over HTTP with boot.kernel.org (BKO). All that users need is Internet connectivity and a small program (gpxe) to boot the machine. This gpxe program provides network booting facility. BKO allows you to boot into the following distributions: Debian, Ubuntu, Damn Small Linux, Knoppix, Fedora. BKO provides gpxe images for USB sticks, CDs, and also for floppies, i.e., you can boot from a USB sticks, a CD, or a floppy.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/boot-linux-over-http-with-boot.kernel.org-bko

Boot Linux Over HTTP With netboot.me
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This tutorial shows how you can boot Linux over HTTP with netboot.me. All that users need is Internet connectivity and a small program (gpxe) to boot the machine. This gpxe program provides network booting facility. netboot.me allows you to boot into the following distributions: Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and Ubuntu. netboot.me provides gpxe images for USB sticks, CDs, and also for floppies, i.e., you can boot from a USB sticks, a CD, or a floppy.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/boot-linux-over-http-with-netboot.me

How To Prevent Brute Force Attacks With Brutelock
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Brutelock is an open source program that actively monitors various system logs and immediately blocks malicious IPs trying to attack your server. Brutelock not only protects against ssh attacks but also other common systems such as ftp, pop and imap. It has an extendible rules format that allows you to monitor an unlimited number of other services by simply supplying the log file and a simple regex search pattern.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-prevent-brute-force-attacks-with-brutelock

Installing NVIDIA Drivers On Debian Lenny Manually
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Installing NVIDIA drivers on Debian Lenny requires a little extra work compared to doing so in other distributions like Ubuntu, due to the lack of some required packages in the default installation.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-nvidia-drivers-on-debian-lenny-manually

Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2009.1
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Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Mandriva 2009.1 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-lighttpd-with-php5-and-mysql-support-on-mandriva-2009.1

How To Install Internet Explorer 6/7 On Fedora 10/11
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This document describes how to install the Internet Explorer (IE) 6 or 7 or both on Fedora 10 or 11 using IEs4Linux package. Some Web developers and designers (and rarely users) need to view their pages on IE for testing purpose (and see how CSS / JavaScript behaves).

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-internet-explorer-6-7-on-fedora-10-11

OpenERP >= 5.0.6 All-In-One Installer & Updater On Ubuntu With GUI (Downloads Latest Stable Branch From Launchpad)
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The following two scripts automate the setup and update openerp-server-5.0.x & openerp-client-5.0.x & openerp-web-5.0.x & openerp-addons-5.0.x & openerp-extra-addons-5.0.x for Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS Desktop and Server. The aim is to provide a graphical installer and update mechanism of OpenERP for Ubuntu Desktop and Server with a KISS principle.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/openerp-5.0.6-all-in-one-installer-and-updater-on-ubuntu-with-gui

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