[HowtoForge] Newsletter 02/23/2012

HowtoForge Newsletter 02/23/2012
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*** Version 1.3 of the ISPConfig 3 Manual ***
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The next update of the ISPConfig 3 Manual is available in PDF format (version 1.3 for ISPConfig >= 3.0.4; Date: 10/25/2011).

Version 1.3 for ISPConfig >= 3.0.4 (Date: 10/25/2011)
Author: Falko Timme
333 pages

The manual can be downloaded from these two links:

http://www.ispconfig.org/ispconfig-3/ispconfig-3-manual/
http://www.howtoforge.com/download-the-ispconfig-3-manual

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ISPConfig Monitor App for Android Phones
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With the ISPConfig Monitor App, you can check your server status and find out if all services are running as expected. You can check TCP and UDP ports and ping your servers. In addition to that you can use this app to request details from servers that have ISPConfig installed; these details include everything you know from the Monitor module in the ISPConfig Control Panel (e.g. services, mail and system logs, mail queue, CPU and memory info, disk usage, quota, OS details, RKHunter log, etc.).

Download/Usage
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For download and usage instructions, please visit http://www.ispconfig.org/ispconfig-3/ispconfig-monitor-app-for-android/ .

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New HOWTOs:
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* Introduction To The Linux Mint Cinnamon Desktop
* The Perfect Media Server - Ubuntu 11.10 [Sabnzbd+/Sickbeard/Couch Potato/Headphones/Serviio]
* AVG Antivirus For Linux/FreeBSD Plus Sendmail Mail Server
* Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Fedora 16
* How To Securely Destroy/Wipe Data On Hard Drives With shred
* ISPConfig 3 With Xeround Cloud Database Service

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Introduction To The Linux Mint Cinnamon Desktop
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This tutorial is supposed to guide the reader through the features of the Cinnamon desktop, Mint's new desktop environment to be used in Linux Mint 13. Cinnamon concentrates on holding on to classic design and functionality in times where Gnome 3 and Unity come up with different innovations to the user interface.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/introduction-to-the-linux-mint-cinnamon-desktop

The Perfect Media Server - Ubuntu 11.10 [Sabnzbd+/Sickbeard/Couch Potato/Headphones/Serviio]
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This tutorial shows how to install Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) and all the programs needed for the perfect media server to download all your media and stream it to your PS3. This setup includes Sabnzbd+ (an Open Source Binary Newsreader written in Python), Sickbeard (a PVR for newsgroup users), Couch Potato (an automatic NZB and torrent downloader), Headphones (automatic music downloader for SABnzbd), and Serviio (a free media server).

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-media-server-ubuntu-11.10-sabnzbd-sickbeard-couch-potato-headphones-serviio

AVG Antivirus For Linux/FreeBSD Plus Sendmail Mail Server
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This document describes how to deploy AVG Antivirus for Linux/FreeBSD to the Sendmail mail server. It is usable for AVG version 8.5, 10 and 2012.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/avg-antivirus-for-linux-freebsd-plus-sendmail-mail-server

Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Fedora 16
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Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a Fedora 16 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-nginx-with-php5-and-php-fpm-and-mysql-support-on-fedora-16

How To Securely Destroy/Wipe Data On Hard Drives With shred
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Sometimes you need to destroy or wipe data from hard drives (for example, before you sell your old hard drives on eBay) so that nobody else can access them. Simply deleting data (e.g. with rm) is not enough because that just removes the file system pointer, but not the data, so it can easily be undeleted with recovery software. Even zero'ing out your hard drive might not be enough. Here's where shred comes into play - shred can overwrite the files and partitions repeatedly, in order to make it harder for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-securely-destroy-wipe-data-on-hard-drives-with-shred

ISPConfig 3 With Xeround Cloud Database Service
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This tutorial is a companion to any of the Perfect Server tutorials. ISPConfig 3 will not work with the Xeround Cloud database service by default. With minor modifications from this tutorial you will be able to run your Perfect Server without having to manage a database server.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/ispconfig-3-with-xeround-cloud-database-service

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