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Installing SSH public key for extra security on your Linux server
Stories - Linux Guide
Written by wiredgorilla   
Saturday, 21 June 2008

Log into SSH

mkdir $HOME/.ssh
chmod -R og= $HOME/.ssh
cd .ssh
nano authorized_keys2

Add your key you created with PuttyGen , make absolutly sure you r key is in one line ONLY , otherwise it wont work!

Adjust your  sshd_config

nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

to

RSAAuthentication yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes
AuthorizedKeysFile      .ssh/authorized_keys2

Last Updated ( Monday, 23 June 2008 )
 
Preparing server for bare metal restore using R1Soft Live Rescue CD
Stories - Linux Guide
Written by wiredgorilla   
Saturday, 28 June 2008

Follow these steps to prepare a system for a bare metal restore. 

1. Put the R1Soft Live Rescue CD into the machine you are going to restore to, and boot. Press enter at the splash screen.

2. Once you are logged in, type netconfig and follow the prompts to configure the network settings. Start SSH if you need to access the machine remotely.

3. Type ping google.com to test the network connectivity.

Last Updated ( Saturday, 28 June 2008 )
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cPanel - Manualy back up and transfer an account via SSH
Stories - cPanel Server Managment
Written by wiredgorilla   
Sunday, 22 June 2008

Sometime accounts are to big to transfer via the WHM transfer feature.

Below you can find some steps to do so manually 

Last Updated ( Sunday, 22 June 2008 )
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Problems with CenotOS5 - cPanel and BIND
Stories - cPanel Server Managment
Written by wiredgorilla   
Sunday, 22 June 2008

If you have issues with cPanel running CentOS5 with BIND then the easiest way is to downgrade BIND to 9.2.4

The reason you're having trouble is because CentOS 5 uses bind-9.3 and CentOS 4 uses bind-9.2 - The changes between these versions is significant enough that cPanel won't work with it properly.

For instance by default there is no /etc/named.conf file created when bind-9.3 is installed and the default named.conf file for bind-9.3 is significantly different than in older versions.

Until the code is updated to work with bind-9.3, I have found the workaround to be to remove bind-9.3 packages and install bind-9.2 packages as follows:
 

Last Updated ( Sunday, 22 June 2008 )
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Installing and configuring Windows CDP Agents
Stories - Niffty Apps and Software
Written by andrew   
Thursday, 19 June 2008
R1Soft CDP is a easy to install and use continous data protection system, primarily targeted at the hosting market. It backups up multiple servers to a central backup server; multiple backup windows can be performed per day, and files or even the whole disk can be restored from the image. This tutorial will show you how to install the Windows Agent on a server which you want to be backed up, and how to configure it.
Last Updated ( Saturday, 28 June 2008 )
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Installing and configuring Linux CDP Agents
Stories - Linux Guide
Written by andrew   
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
R1Soft CDP is a easy to install and use continous data protection system, primarily targeted at the hosting market. It backups up multiple servers to a central backup server; multiple backup windows can be performed per day, and files or even the whole disk can be restored from the image. This tutorial will show you how to install the Linux Agent on a server which you want to be backed up, and how to configure it.
Last Updated ( Saturday, 28 June 2008 )
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Recover broken systems with SystemRescueCD
Stories - Linux Guide
Written by andrew   
Tuesday, 17 June 2008

SystemRescueCD is a powerful, expansive live cd which is useful for recovering broken systems. This tutorial will guide you through how to get it up and running and how to perform some basic recovery procedures.

 

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 17 June 2008 )
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Installing Cacti
Stories - Linux Guide
Written by andrew   
Tuesday, 20 May 2008

Server monitoring is one of the most important aspects of managing a network. Cacti is a free PHP/MySQL script which can monitor everything from process counts to bandwidth, and is fairly easy to setup and use. If you have multiple clients you can even delegate specific access levels so that they can only view the graphs relevant to them.

This tutorial will guide you through setting up and configuring Cacti on a Linux server. 

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 21 May 2008 )
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Installing Webmin
Stories - Linux Guide
Written by andrew   
Friday, 16 May 2008

While the big control panel suites you can install, like cPanel or Plesk, are excellent for large scale deployments or easy system administration, sometimes you just want an interface to quickly carry out complex tasks, which doesn't require a package as large as cPanel/Plesk.

Webmin, a free and powerful control panel, it easy to install and allows you to carry out administrative tasks in an easy to use browser based frontend. This tutorial will guide you through installing Webmin.

Last Updated ( Friday, 16 May 2008 )
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How to Reset your Linux Root Password
Stories - Linux Hosting and SHELL commands
Written by wiredgorilla   
Thursday, 21 February 2008
Whenever you can't remember Root password, you can read this tutorial and do step by step to Reset it ...
Last Updated ( Thursday, 21 February 2008 )
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Installing cPanel/WHM on a vanilla CentOS 5 Server
Stories - cPanel Server Managment
Written by wiredgorilla   
Tuesday, 19 February 2008
After having initially installed your latest CentOS5 OS on your server you need to take a few steps to get cPanel/WHM running securily on your server.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 22 May 2008 )
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Issues with Rails on CENTOS5 and cPanel ?
Stories - cPanel Server Managment
Written by wiredgorilla   
Thursday, 14 February 2008
I was trying to get rails to work through cPanel on Centos 5 and as many of you, I have encountered problems too.

Here's what made it work for me (run as root):
Last Updated ( Friday, 15 February 2008 )
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