Fedora Directory Server is an enterprise-class open source LDAP server for Linux. This howto will demonstrate how easy it is to set up.

Make sure you have a properly registered FQN or you could spoof it. Google that if you don't know how. In this howto, my Ldap server is:

ldap.orangespike.ca @ 192.168.0.100

Installing Fedora Directory Server

1. Update Centos, I always start a project by having an updated machien to work with.

2. Install Fedora Directory Server by typing in the commands below in a terminal window

yum install fedora-ds openldap-clients

Work In Progress

Operating System:
Centos 5.1
All updates installed at time of writing.
Static IP address.
Hostname: samba
Domainname (the one used for windows): HOMEDOMAIN

Prerequisites:
* samba
* samba-common
* samba-client
* samba-swat

Or packages:

* samba-client-3.0.28-1.el5_2.1
* samba-swat-3.0.28-1.el5_2.1
* samba-common-3.0.28-1.el5_2.1
* samba-3.0.28-1.el5_2.1

Installation:

Install the packages:
yum install samba samba-common samba-client samba-swat

Centos 5.1 Chrooting SFTP using SCPonly

Installation

GCC is installed.
OpenSSH is installed.

Download scponly from: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155849 and extract it to /tmp

Configure Your Installation
Navigate into the directory in /tmp where you extracted scponly. Configure with the bellow command:
./configure --enable-chrooted-binary

Build&Install The Binaries

make
make install

This will install your manpage and scponly binary/binaries.

If anyone gets the dreaded error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 387, in dispatch_request
dispatcher.dispatch(req)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 191, in dispatch
chosen_handler = self._pre_process_request(req, chosen_handler)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 263, in _pre_process_request
chosen_handler = f.pre_process_request(req, chosen_handler)

Introduction:

As everyone knows in the Linux world, sometimes upgrades can either be easy or a serious nightmare for the IT department. The problem being is the vast amounts of fundamental changes from one release to another, and those changes not only being limited to the software you want to update.

Introduction

In a database driven enviroment, it is important to ensure that the database has a zero downtime. Typically, end-users rate their service providers on uptime and disaster rsponse. In this howto, you will configure a MySQL Master and Master enviroment which allows database information to be replicated to more than one source.

The Servers:

Server1(Adama) 192.168.0.100
Server2(Starbuck) 192.168.0.103

Basic Preparation:

On both of the servers run in the terminal the following:

What Is Areca?
Areca is a personal file backup software developed in Java.

It is released under the General Public License (GPL) v2.

Backup Engine Features :
Archives compression (Zip&Zip64 format)
Archives encryption (Triple DES & AES encryption algorithm)
Storage on local hard drive, network drive, USB key, FTP / FTPs server (with implicit and explicit SSL / TLS)
Source file filters (by extension, subdirectory, regular expression, size, date, status, with AND/OR operators)
Incremental, differential and full backup support

Failover clusters are often used in situations where down time is extremely unwanted at all or tolerated in a very limited capacity. In this howto, the setup, configuration and implementation of a rock-solid two-node high availability Apache cluster with the heartbeat application will be covered.

Introduction:
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Oracle, one of the largest and most robust relational database management systems.
A product that tends to be the core of large IT organizations using database technologies. Oracle can be deployed in many operating systems, but was designed to be ran in a UNIX environment and is considered to be faster and more stable in UNIX. The part they forgot to mention in their marketing is that anything other than “supported” OS requires more setup and sometimes more problem solving.

"AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the administrator to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts over network to tape drives/changers or disks or optical media. Amanda uses native dump and/or GNU tar facilities and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix."- Amanda.org